To His Grace, His Majesty's high commissioner, and the right honourable the estates of Parliament
Subtitle: The humble representation and petition of the council-general of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies..
Contributors: Schaw, John, approximately 1673-1739; Scotland. Parliament
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Edinburgh]
Language: eng
Subjects: Broadsides; Commerce; History; Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies
Other titles: Humble representation and petition of the council-general of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies
Notes: Caption title.

Dated and signed following text: Signed at Edinburgh the 28th. day of October 1700, in name, preference, and by warrant of the said council-general, by John Schaw. I.P.C.G.

Text begins: May it please your grace and right honourable estates, whereas, by our former petition, on the 16th. of May last, we laid a representation of the then circumstances of our company's affairs, before your grace and right honourable estates.

This petition supplements the petition of May the 16th of the same year printed in Edinburgh with the same title (Scott 112).

Concerns the the conduct of Spain towards the Scottish colony and protests the treatment of the governor of Jamaica in seizing and retaining the company's ship, The St. Andrew.

Scott, J. Bibliography of printed documents and books relating to the Darien company, 118

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, pages 408-409

European Americana, 700/62

Purchase; 1905; 776.