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Updated: May 5, 2025
Meanwhile amounts of £250 were voted widows of captains killed in the war; and the deputy-governor went to Hamburg and Amsterdam to borrow money; for the governor, Sir Stephen Evance, was wellnigh bankrupt.
The Hudson's Bay Company declared dividends of fifty per cent, and chartered seven vessels for the season of 1685 some from a goldsmith, Sir Stephen Evance; and bespoke my Lord Churchill as next governor in place of James, Duke of York, who had become King James II.
In 1691, patents were granted on engines connected with submarine navigation to John Holland curious forerunner of a name destined to be famous two hundred years later and on a submarine boat to Sir Stephen Evance.
On my honour, I assure you I will take particular care on it to see that you are righted. In all, eighty-nine men were on the Bay at this time. It proved not easy to charter ships that year. Sir Stephen Evance advanced his price on the Happy Return from £400 to £750.
Captain Hume, with Smithsend for mate, took his cargo boat, the Merchant Perpetuana. The Company did not own any of these vessels. They were chartered from Sir Stephen Evance and others, for sums running from £400 to £600 for the voyage, with £100 extra for the impress money. The large vessels carried crews of twenty men; the smaller, of twelve; and each craft boasted at least six great guns.
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