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18, [2] pages : 20 cm (4to) · Colophon reads: London, Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1677 · Caption title on p. 3 reads: Articles of peace between the most serene and mighty prince, and our dread sovereign lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. And several Indian kings and queens, &c. Assenters and subscribers hereunto, made and concluded at the camp at Middle Plantation the twenty ninth day of May 1677. being the day of the most happy birth and restauration of our said sovereihn lord, and in the nine and twentieth year of His Majesties reign, by the right honourable Herbert Jefferies esquire, lieutenant-governour of His Majesties colony of Virginia · "Memorandum the 29th day of May, 1677, p. 17-18, is signed: John Berry, Francis Morison · Consists of 21 articles, in which the Indians acknowledge subjugation to the British crown and the British guarantee them protection. They provide that no English settlement shall be made nearer than three miles of any Indian town and exclusivity to certain fishing grounds. The treat
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Pamunkey Indians -- Treaties · Cheroenhaka Indians -- Treaties · Indians of North America -- Virginia -- Treaties · Great Britain -- Commercial treaties · Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Imprint 1677