[272] Cf. Ellis Ames’ paper on the part taken by Massachusetts in this expedition, with extracts from the Council Records. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1881, vol. xviii. p. 364.
“1740, Apr. 17. Orders arrived [in Boston] to declare the warr in form against Spain, and accordingly it was proclaimed with the usual solemnity at Boston the twenty-first.” “Oct. 1740. Five companies, the quota of Massachusetts for the West Indian expedition, sailed.” Paul Dudley’s diary in N. E. H. & G. Reg., 1881, pp. 29, 30.
[273] Sabin, xv. 65,585, with a long list of Prince’s other publications.
[274] See. Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. p. 202; Amer. Mag. (1834), i. p. 81.
[275] Cf. sketch of the history of the Navigation Laws in Viscount Bury’s Exodus of the Western Nations, ii. ch. 2.
[276] Cf. ch. viii. of W. E. Foster’s Stephen Hopkins (Rhode Island Tracts, no. 19), tracing these restrictions of trade as a proximate cause of the Amer. Revolution, and his references. A petition of the town of Boston in 1735, to the General Court, asking for relief from taxation, sets forth the condition of trade at this time, and gives the following schedule of the cost of maintaining the town’s affairs: For the poor, £2,069; the watch, £1,200; ministry, £8,000; other purposes, £4,630; county tax, £1,682; imposts, £1,400. Boston Town Records (1729-1742), p. 120.
[277] The correspondence between Belcher and Waldron is in the keeping of the N. H. Hist. Soc., and some of it is printed in the N. H. Prov. Papers, iv. 866, etc.
[278] There is a view of the Wentworth house at Newcastle in Gay’s Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 199; and in John Albee’s Newcastle historic and picturesque, Boston, 1884, p. 70. For the old “Province House,” see Ibid. p. 36.
[279] A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity, by a college to be erected in the Summer islands, otherwise called the isles of Bermuda. London. 1725. Berkeley published this tract anonymously.
[280] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvii. 94.