[5] Peter Sergeant, a rich merchant, who had the finest house in Boston, had given it over to the new governor's use. Mass. Hist Soc., Proc., XXII. 123-131. Lord Bellomont held his council meetings in its best chamber. It was afterward the famous Province House, having been bought later by the province, for a residence for the governors. Hawthorne, at the beginning of part II. of his Twice-Told Tales, describes it as it was in 1845. A portion of the walls was in 1919 still visible from Province Court.
[6] Dr. Edward Everett Hale gives quotations from the council records, in Memorial History of Boston, II. 177-178.
[7] Rock-crystal, of a kind found near Bristol, England.
[8] Capt. John Nanfan; see [doc. no. 73], [note 2].
[10] Titus Oates, the scurrilous and perjured informer, wonderfully successful with his "Popish Plot" in 1679 and 1680, thrown into prison, under heavy irons, in 1684. He was still living in 1699. His doctoral degree ("D.D. of Salamanca") was spurious.
[11] The reply of the governor of St. Thomas is [doc. no. 83].
[12] Caledonia was the settlement on the isthmus of Panama to which the Darien Company, amid so much enthusiasm on the part of the Scottish nation (see Macaulay's twenty-fourth chapter), had sent out its colony in 1698. The settlement had proved a disastrous failure and had been abandoned, and the ships bringing away the wretched survivors were already approaching New York, but neither Kidd nor Bellomont yet knew this.
[13] William Popple the elder, secretary to the Board of Trade from 1696 to 1708.
83. The Danish Governor of St. Thomas to Lord Bellomont. September 1, 1699.[1]