consequence of the petitioners application and subscribed by the Earl of Hillsborough which is so far from admitting a Title in the petitioner to those Lands which he claims in particular that it exany discussion upon that question until the evidence of the legality of the Title should be more authentically adduced and in the mean time with equal Justice & humanity forbids pressly reserves

any further Grants being made within the limits of the Seigneuries claimed by the Petitioner. We are my Lords

Your Lordships Most Obedient and Most humble Servants Dartmouth Soame Jenyns

Bamber Gascoyne Whitshed Keene

Whitehall

May 25. 1775.

Greville

THE BOARD OF TRADE TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL FEB. 13 th 1776. [

Lond. Doc. XLVI. ]

My Lords --Pursuant to your Lordships Order of the 21

st .

Dec. last We have taken into our consideration the Matters therein contained respecting the case of Michel Chartiere de Lotbiniere stiling

himself Signeur d'Allainville and de Hocquart and the reasonableness of making some adequate

compensation to him for his pretensions to the said Lordships of Alainville and de Hocquart by recom

mending him

to

His Majesty for a Grant of Land in some one of his Majesty's American Provinces

in consideration of his said pretensions as well as of the losses and expenses in which

he has been

involved by the proceedings of His Majesty's Governors of New York in Granting away Lands within the aforementioned Lordships in express disobedience to orders received from hence whereupon we