Source: http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/nfld_history/CO194/CO194-11.htm
Timestamp: 2014-09-16 23:29:03
Document Index: 612398310

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art.8', 'Art.12', 'Art. 16', 'Art.38', 'art.52', 'Art.54']

31 Oct. 1741 James Wibault, St. John's "Estimate of the Expense in Building three Batterys Viz: One of Eight Gunns, one of six Gunns, One of four Gunns. Also, an Ordnance Store House and Powder Magazine, in the reverse of the Six Gunn Battery; A Searjeant's Guard House in the reverse of the Eight Gunn Battery; Also Quarters and Barracks for Officers and Fifty Men. All on Buoy Island on the North side of the Entrance into Ferryland Harbour in Newfoundland."
Thomas Smith is ready to sail in the Romney, please send the Heads of Enquiry. 26
Thomas Smith has been appointed Governor this year, the Lords are to present a draft of his Commission for signature. 31
William Sharpe, Council Chamber Whitehall Order in Council relating to the Ordnance destined to the Engineer in St. John's for the purpose of repairing Placentia.
Captain John Byng is appointed to command at Newfoundland, please consider the Powers and Instructions to be sent for him. 38v-44v
[Enclosed with above] A Return of the Detachment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. 59
Joseph Gledhill [Enclosed with above] A return of Joseph Gledhill's Company in the Honourable Major general Phillips Regiment of Foot.
19 Dec. 1741 [Enclosed with above] Account of Ordnance Stores Issued and Expended at Placentia between the 1st and 31st Aug. 1740.
[Enclosed with above] Scheme of the Fishery for the year 1741. 88
The king has appointed John Byng, Esq. Commander of the Sutherland to be Governor. Please prepare the instructions to be laid before his majesty for approval. 89-91v
Order in Council. Commission for John Byng, Esq. 92
A letter stating that he is sending the accounts of ordnance at Placentia. He also provides a few notes on frictions between boatkeepers and inhabitants and merchants who engross the people's whole cargos and also procure these people with their
"necessarys." A very interesting letter in which Byng observes that "the whole Island is a monopoly, especially at St. John's". Illegal goods are brought here. Wine from France, Portugal and Italy, soap, candles and tallow from Ireland which pass as beef and pork. Molasses and rum from St Iustatia (St. Eustatius in the Dutch Antilles) and the French Islands. A petition is included in this document, at p.95v-96, from the Fishermen of St. John's and Petty Harbour in relation to the price of fish. 100-114
[enclosed with above] Answers to the Heads of Enquiry. (Art.8) Irish papists are in Ferryland. (Art.12) He appointed William Keen to report on the trade at Newfoundland. (Art. 16) Ballast is thrown in harbours at night. And much more. (Art.38) "I don't learn that they have traffick with the Indians."(art.52)
"Ten Publick Houses in St John's..." (Art.54) "Passage from England forty five to fifty shillings per man."
[Enclosed with above] A return of Captain John Gledhill's Company at Placentia Aug. 1742. End of Volume