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[Transcriber's notes:

Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.

An entry in the index for the "Northwest passage" has been left out, being unreadable.

Superscripts are enclosed in { }.

In the sentence "Those Adventurers & Planters by Vertue .... ", there is a tilde on the last "c" of "Incorporacon"; and in the sentence "In this Provynce soe as they might ...", there is a tilde on the "c" of "toleracon".]

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