God Save The King.
London, Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1688.
1 p. folio. Copies in Bodl., B. M., Crawf., Guild., P. C., Q. C., and T. C. D.; also in John Carter Brown Library. Entered on Patent Rolls; entered in Privy Council Register, II James, vol. 2, p. 641. Printed in "London Gazette," April 9, 1688.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The charter of May 2, 1670 is printed in Dobbs', Account of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, p. 171, and elsewhere. For the literature regarding the founding of this Company, see Winsor's Narrative and Critical History, viii, 65.
[2] The Hudson Bay Company had petitioned for relief from interruptions to their trade as early as July 13, 1682 (Acts of Privy Council, ii, 37). The Council order approving the above Proclamation was made March 30, 1688 (Idem, p. 108).
[1689, February 19.]
[Continuing Officers in the Colonies.]
BY THE KING AND QUEEN.