Law, Robin (ed.). — The English in West Africa

Abstract

This last of three volumes of Royal African Company correspondence contains letters and daybooks from various forts, and minor correspondence from outposts to the Company HQ at Cape Coast (unfortunately, the reply correspondence from Cape Coast is not published). Parts I & II covering the period 1681-1688 were published in 1997 and 2001, with a gap in 1689/ 1690. The 1 437 documents of the 1691-1699 period come from the Bodleian Library’s Rawlinson collection which preserves full texts with ...