l._, Sec. 1236.)

_March 8._

Report of the Council upon the petition of Edwin Steed. (_Cal._,
Sec. 1238.)

_March 17._

Mr. Gorges paper regarding the sugar plantations. (_Cal._, Sec. 1244.)

_March 23._

Sends Helyar's petition to Gov. Lynch and wishes reply. (_Cal._,
Sec. 1250.)

Draft Commission for the Earl of Carlisle, appointed governor of
Jamaica. (_Cal._, Sec.Sec. 1251, 1252. Cf. Sec. 1253.)

Similar draft for Col. Morgan, deputy governor of Jamaica. (_Cal._,
Sec. 1254.)

_April 3._

Petition from Representatives of Leeward Is. for convoys, etc.
(_Cal._, Sec. 1257.)

_April 13._

New England: petition of Earl of Sterling, Gorges, and Mason read.
(_Journal_; _Cal._, Sec. 1247.)

_May 8_ (committee).

Letter from Gov. Stapleton read. (_Cal._, Sec.Sec. 1201-1203, 1327.)

_July 3._

Petition of Edmund Cooke, merchant, regarding the barbarous treatment
received from the Spaniards. (_Cal._, Sec. 1320.)

_July 17._

Similar petition from other merchants. (_Cal._, Sec. 1327.)

_September 15._

"To Council, about fetching away the English left at Surinam, etc.,
since our reconciliation with Holland." (Evelyn's _Diary_, II, p. 99.)

_September 22._

Regarding Surinam question--fetching the English away, etc. (_Cal._,
Sec. 1354.)

_September 24._

Report on this question to the King. (_Cal._, Sec. 1355.)

_October 6_ (Committee).

Letter from Gov. Lynch in answer to Col. Helyar's petition read.
(_Cal._, Sec. 1301.)

_October 13._

Letter from Gov. Stapleton on the wrongs suffered from the French in the
Leeward Is. (_Cal._, Sec. 1333.)

_October 15._

Proposal read of F. Gorges, agent of Gov. Stapleton, regarding the
action of the French. (_Cal._, Sec. 1360.)

_October 16._

St. Christopher and Sir William Lockhart's letter. (_Cal._, Sec. 1365, I.)
Lockhart was "Resident with the French King."

_October 27._

Discussion of the Surinam situation. (_Journal._)

_October 30._

Continuation of the same. (_Journal._)

_November 17._

Continuation of the same. (_Journal._)

"To Council, on the business of Surinam, where the Dutch had detained
some English in prison, ever since the first war, 1665." (Evelyn's
_Diary_, II, 100.)

_November 20._

About Negroes; probably regarding a clause in Lord Vaughan's commission.
(_Journal_; _Cal._, Sec.Sec. 1386, 1392.)

_November 21._

Jamaica and my Lord Vaughan. (_Journal._)

_November 24._

Heads of Lord Vaughan's commis