| Summary: | Description: Includes: Legal petitions in Chancery and observations of trials, 1659 and 1693; Account of the sea battle between the French and the English and Dutch, 1692; A Diplomatic letter regarding Jamaican forts, 1683; Arrears of the Militia tax, 1683 in Cumberland and Westmoreland; Statements by officers regarding the theft from a ship at Dartmouth, 1692; Declaration of acceptance of the General Pardon proclaimed by Charles II, 1660; Letters detailing the capture, trial and execution of a highwayman, 1693; Documents relating to the retaining of Seamen c.1642; Documents relating to the tobacco and wool trade and taxes thereof, 1695; Various verses, poems and songs from the late seventeenth century.
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