Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

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Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The restoration era

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THE RESTORATION ERA 45 to whom King Chatles in 1663 made the famous grant of Carolina. Another of these patentees was the foremost states- man of the reign in the matter of extending and improving the Empire. This was Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury. He had a hereditary con- nexion with the Elizabethans, for his mothet’s father, Anthony Ashley, who was clerk to the Privy Council, was deputed by the Government to accompany in a civil capacity the famous expedition to Cadiz in 1596, when Essex was in command on land, Lord Charles Howard on sea, and Sir Walter Raleigh was of the company. Ashley, among others, was knighted on this occasion. From the very beginning of the reign of Charles II, his grandson was most active in oversea matters. He was a member of the Council of Plantations which was called together in the first year of the reign; he was one of the grantees both of Carolina and of the Bahamas, and in either case seems to have been the leading man among the proprietors ; he was a member of the African and Hudson Bay Companies ; and from 1672 to 1676 he was president of a United Council of Trade and Plantations, of which John Locke became secretary in 1673. With Shaftes- bury and Locke combined, there was some semblance of an able Secretary of State for the Colonies, guided in counsel and in draftsmanship by a singularly valuable permanent secretary. Locke first met Shaftesbury at Oxford in 1666, and became a close friend and inmate of his house in 1667. The fre- quency of his handwriting in the Shaftesbury papers shows that, as a secretary, especially on the adminis-

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