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Title Royal letters, charters, and tracts : relating to the colonization of New Scotland, and the institution of the Order of Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia, 1621-1638 / [edited by David Laing]
Edition Searchable text ed
Published Burlington : TannerRitchie Pub. in collaboration with the Library and Information Services of the University of St Andrews, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (4 preliminary leaves, [v]-vi, [291] pages) : frontispiece (portrait), 2 double maps, facsimile
Series Medieval and early modern sources online
Bannatyne club. Publications ; 114
Medieval and early modern sources online.
Bannatyne club. Publications ; 114
Contents Preface, with royal letters, acts of Privy council, &c., 1621-1636 -- I. Captain John Mason -- II. The King's patent for the plantation of New Scotland, 1621 -- III. Sir William Alexander of Menstrie -- IV. Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar -- V. John Burnett of Aberdeen, 1638 -- VI. Nova Scotia papers subsequent to 1640 -- VII. Roll of the Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia, from 1625 to 1638 -- Royal charters under the great seal of Scotland, &c., 1621-1628 -- I. Charter granted to Sie Willaim Alexander, 10 September, 1621 -- II. Charter granted to Sir Robert Grdon, 8 November 1621 -- III. Charter granted to Sir William Alexander, 12 July 1625 -- IV. Charter granted to Sir William Alexander, 2 February 1628 -- Tracts: I.A briefe discourse of the New-found-land, by Captain John Mason (1620) -- II. Nova Scotia, the King's patent to Sir William Alexander ... (1625) --- III. An encouragement to colonies, by Sir William Alexander ... (1624) -- IV. Encouragements for New Galloway, in America, by Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar (1625)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Great Britain. Sovereign.
SUBJECT Great Britain. Sovereign fast
Subject HISTORY.
SUBJECT Nova Scotia -- History -- 1603-1713 -- Sources
North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092461
Nova Scotia -- History -- To 1763. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092842
Subject Nova Scotia
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Laing, David, 1793-1878.
Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland)
ISBN 9781554932573
1554932572
9781441686428
1441686428