n under our Common
Seale this 23th day of Aprill In the XIIII yeare of the raigne of our
Soveraigne Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, Defendor of the Faith, etc. And in the
yeare of our Lord God 1638.

[Footnote 3: December 4, 1630. The patent is summarized by Newton, pp.
86-90, and the part conferring admiralty rights is printed in R.G.
Marsden, _Law and Custom of the Sea_ (Navy Records Society), I.
470-472.]

[Footnote 4: Henrietta lay some sixty miles southwest of Providence.]

[Footnote 5: A very exceptional grant of power, including the right to
grant letters of marque. R.G. Marsden, "Early Prize Jurisdiction and
Prize Law in England," in _English Historical Review_, XXV. 257.]

[Footnote 6: Than.]

H. DARLEY, Deputy.[7] RO. WARWICK.
W. SAY AND SEALE. E. MANDEVILLE.
RO. BROOK. JO. PYM. JO. GOURDEN.

[Footnote 7: The signers are as follows. Henry Darley, deputy
treasurer, a Yorkshire squire, was a conspicuous Puritan and an
intimate friend of Pym. Robert Rich (1587-1658), second earl of
Warwick, afterward a chief leader of the Puritans in the Civil War,
and lord high admiral under Parliament, had before this been
conspicuous in privateering and colonial ventures, and president of
the Council for New England. Viscount Saye and Sele (1582-1662) and
Lord Brooke (1608-1643), eminent Puritan and Parliamentarian lords,
are best known in American history as patentees of the Saybrook
colony, but were much more deeply interested in the Providence Island
venture. Edward viscount Mandeville (courtesy title borne until his
father's death in 1642) is better known as the second earl of
Manchester (1602-1671), the celebrated Parliamentarian general. John
Pym needs no identification. John Gourdon or Gurdon was an East
Anglian squire, neighbor of John Winthrop of Groton.]

_2. Governor Nathaniel Butler, "Diary of my Present Employment".
February-March, 1639._[1]

[Footnote 1: British Museum, Sloane MSS., 758; pp. 143-173 contain
Gov. Nathaniel Butler's "Diary of my Present Employment", extracts
from the earlier part of which are given here, exhibiting the dealings
of a minor colonial governor with problems of privateering, and
incidentally somewhat of his daily life. The whole journal runs from
February 10, 1639, to May 3, 1640, and is largely occupied with an
unsuccessful privateering voyage in the Caribbean which the governor
und