[1] A letter to the several Governors of the Plantations was drawn
up in the Council, February 6, 1685, announcing the death of King
Charles, ordering that the new King be proclaimed in the colonies, and
transmitting the above proclamation (_Acts of Privy Council_, ii, 74;
see also _Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1685-1688_, p. 1).
1685, April 1.
[Prohibiting African Trade to Plantations.]