Note 1 — 1714, October 4.

Since the proclamation of April 1, 1676 (see p. 129, with note) the question of ship passes had been given frequent attention, but seldom directly concerned the American trade. On February 9, 1677, the Privy Council drew up a long set of regulations regarding the form and issuing of passes, with direct reference to the Plantations trade (printed in Acts of the Privy Council, i, 692-700) but the proclamation then ordered to be issued to explain these regulations, if published, has not been found. The treaty with Algiers of April 10, 1682, required that all English merchants should have a pass under the seal of the Lord High Admiral or his commissioners and a proclamation was issued April 13, 1683, to that effect. Further proclamations, containing reference to the treaties of 1682 and April 5, 1686, were issued on March 17, 1692 and June 9, 1700, to reinforce these provisions. On February 17, 1698, the Privy Council took action allowing the granting of passes in the Plantations (Acts of the Privy Council, ii, 318). Since certain passes for the trade with Algiers had been clandestinely altered, a proclamation was published on January 17, 1714, canceling all passes held twelve months from that date and requiring new ones to be issued (these proclamations are calendared in Lord Crawford's Tudor and Stuart Proclamations). In connection with the issuing of the above printed proclamation concerning passes for the Plantations trade, the Privy Council proposed to send a certain number of passes over to the governors of the colonies, there to be issued by them, but to this the government of Algiers objected (Acts of the Privy Council, ii, 682).