The First Earl of Shaftesbury's Colonial Policy

E. E. Rich

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The First Earl of Shaftesbury's Colonial Policy

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E. E. Rich

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Almost forty years ago Professor H. E. Egerton, him-self a pioneer in the modern study of imperial history, delivered to this society a paper on ‘The system of British colonial administration of the Crown colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’. He opened with the warning that ‘The most learned of historians would find it difficult to add much to the sum of knowledge in treating the subject of my paper.’ 1 The warning still stands; there is little new knowledge to be gleaned, for this is a well-tilled field.

Type: Research Article
Information: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 7 , January 1957 , pp. 47 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3678886 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1957

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^{page 53 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/5/270.

^{page 53 note 2} P.R.0./30/20.

^{page 53 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/49/26.

^{page 54 note 1} Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1665–67, p. 424.

^{page 54 note 2} Loc. cit., p. 421.

^{page 54 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/49/3; C.S.P. Col. 1665–67, P. 304.

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^{page 55 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/49/3.

^{page 55 note 2} P.R.O. 30/24/44, 30/24/4/160, 30/24/30/130. Not all dated.

^{page 55 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/44.

^{page 55 note 4} P.R.O. 30/24/6 ^A /297, 30/24/4/215, 30/24/7/484, 30/24/46 ^b /94–100; CO. 389/6/150–1.

^{page 56 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/40, 30/24/30.

^{page 56 note 2} P.R.O. 30/24/49/16.

_{page 56 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/49/3.

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^{page 59 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/48/9.

^{page 59 note 4} Fargo Brown, p. 168.

^{page 60 note 1} Fargo Brown, p. 171.

^{page 60 note 2} Ibid., p. 176.

^{page 61 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/49/8.

^{page 61 note 2} P.R.O. 30/24/49/8. Fargo Brown, p. 141.

^{page 62 note 1} Fargo Brown, p. 144. Hist. MSS. Comm. House of Lords, vii, 133–4.

^{page 62 note 2} For which cf. p. 51 supra.

^{pate 62 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/49/8, 9, 10, 11; CO. 389/4; C.S.P. Col. l675–76, pp. 225, 470, 611.

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^{page 65 note 5} CO. 389/4/70; P.R.O. 30/24/49/8.

^{page 65 note 6} P.R.O. 30/24/49/8.

^{page 66 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/49/9.

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^{page 68 note 1} 25 Car. II, c. 7, sec. 5.

^{page 68 note 2} Acts of Privy Council, Colonial, 1613–80, p. 576.

^{page 68 note 3} P.R.O. 30/24/7/498.

^{page 68 note 4} Christie, ii. 157.

^{page 69 note 1} P.R.O. 30/24/49/4.

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^{page 69 note 3} E.g. in the scrutiny of laws, P.R.O. 30/24/49/8.

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^{page 70 note 2} See Thornton, p. 159.

^{page 70 note 3} Quoted Thornton, p. 199.

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