| Content Description | Text consists of copies of petitions to the King, and agreements regarding rights to Hudson's Bay, North America (now Hudson Bay, Canada), discovered by Henry Hudson in 1610. They detail the history of the discovery and use of the Bay, by French and English adventurers and traders, in an attempt to establish claim to the territory.
Between 1682 and 1713 the French made repeated attempts to secure the Bay, and were often in complete control. The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 finally assigned all French posts to England.
Much of the text is in French, often being translations of English documents. |
| Descriptive Features | Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, free standing lions, approx. 95 x 105 mm.
Countermark: Letters RW, 13 x 45 mm
Professional copy in cursive script
Ruled paper
Vellum on layers of grey, thick, wrapping paper with front and back pastedowns of marble paper; Arms of Duke of Portland gold stamped in centre of an oblong panel enmarked with single, gold stamped fillet lines in upper and lower covers; a floral motive gold stamped in four outer corners of centre panel; a second single fillet line is gold stamped around four borders of upper and lower covers; spine is left plain. |