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Nov. 1.
Whitehall. |
820. Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Seymour.
Enclose Order, Oct. 24, repealing Act for relief of poor debtors.
We also send you the reasons for the repeal of the said Act
(Oct. 18), that you may avoid passing the like for the future.
Enclose letter to be forwarded to the President of the Council
of New Jersey. [C.O. 5, 727. pp. 139, 140.] |
Nov. 1.
Whitehall. |
821. Council of Trade and Plantations to the President of
the Council of New Jersey. Enclose Order, Oct. 24, repealing
Act for regulating negroes, etc., by reason the punishment inflicted on negroes etc. is such as never was allowed or known
in the Laws of this Kingdom. [C.O. 5, 995. p. 24.] |
Nov. 1.
Whitehall. |
822. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Lord High
Treasurer. Having been in treaty with the Earl of Carbury
for his lands [see Oct. 18] lying in the parish of St. George,
in Jamaica, his Lordship is ready to surrender to H.M. in fee such
land as he has within those limits being by estimation about 1,000
acres, upon condition that the said 1,000 acres, as likewise the
rest of his lands consisting of about 8,000 acres lying in the parish
of St. Mary's at a very considerable distance from the limits
aforesaid, may be discharged from all arrears of quit rent to
the time that such surrender shall be made. Wherefore if H.M.
shall be pleased to approve thereof, we desire your Lordship
will enable us to acquaint the Lord Carbury therewith, as soon
as conveniently may be, in order to the dispatch of our Report
to H.M. [C.O. 138, 12. p. 495.] |
Nov. 2.
Treasury Chambers. |
823. Wm. Lowndes to Mr. Popple. My Lord Treasurer is
inclinable, on H.M. behalf, to approve of Lord Carberry's proposition (Nov. 1), and in order thereunto he has directed Mr.
Blathwayt, H.M. Auditor for the Plantations, to lay before him
a state of the arrears owing from the Earl of Carberry upon
the quit rents issuing out of the said lands, and what the
value of the lands proposed to be surrendred by the said Earl
may reasonably be computed at. Signed, Wm. Lowndes. Endorsed, Recd. Read Nov. 3, 1709. Addressed. 1 p. [C.O.
137, 8. No. 59; and 138, 12. p. 497.] |
Nov. 2.
Whitehall. |
824. Mr. Popple to Mr. Blathwayt. Requests reply to letter,
Oct. 27. The proposal for settling the poor Palatines at Jamaica
is obstructed for want of the account desired. [C.O. 138, 12.
p. 496.] |
Nov. 2.
Whitehall. |
825. Mr. Popple to Mr. Attorney General. Encloses an Act
of Barbados (1708) for holding a Court of Grand Sessions, etc.,
for his opinion in point of Law, etc. [C.O. 29, 12. p. 38.] |
Nov. 3.
Whitehall. |
826. Mr. Popple to the Earl of Carbury. Mr. Pulteney
having acquainted the Council of Trade and Plantations that
your Lordship is willing to surrender to H.M. in fee all your
Lordships lands lying in the parish of St. George in Jamaica,
and comprized in a deed of conveyance from Nicholas Smith
to your Lordship, which deed, together with a survey of those
lands, Mr. Pulteney has delivered to the Board from your
Lordship: they did give my Lord Treasurer an account thereof,
who has signifyed that he is inclinable on H.M. behalf to approve
of the said proposition. Your Lordship will please to signify
to the Board, in such manner, that the same may be transmitted
to the Governor of Jamaica, that you do consent, the said lands
may be cleared by H.M. for the use of the poor Palatines,
and your Lordship will be pleased to do it with all convenient
speed, this matter not admitting of any delay. [C.O. 138, 12.
pp. 498, 499.] |
Nov. 3.
Whitehall. |
827. Wm. Blathwayt to Mr. Popple. Reply to Oct. 27 and
Nov. 2. Explains delay by his absence etc. Mr. Compere,
Receiver Generall of Jamaica, could give me no light, but only
undertook to procure from his Deputy in Jamaica as soon as
possible a particular answer. In reference to my part therein,
encloses accompt, to which I might have been able to have
added a further information, if I had not been disappointed
by the death of the Deputy Auditor there, about 3 months
past, etc. There are in Jamaica more than 6 millions of acres
of profitable land, of which above one half remain unpossess'd
or unpatented, so that the Island might with due prevision and
assistance receive with great advantage the whole number of
poor Palatines. The tract referred to is at least 1/12 part of the
whole Island, and consequently capable of receiving a considerable number of these Palatines, tho' it may be observed that
the North Eastermost part of this tract be most exposed to
pirates and the invasion of the French and Spaniards from the
neighbourhood. As to the Quit-rents reserv'd to the Crown, the
lands granted by Sir Tho. Modyford pay 2/6 per 100 acres, by
Sir Tho. Lynch ½d. per acre, by Lord Vaughan 1d. per acre,
and by some of the succeeding Governors three halfpence or 2d.
per acre. Signed, Wm. Blathwayt. Endorsed, Recd. 5th, Read
7th Nov. 1709. 1¾ pp. Enclosed, |
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827. i. Accompt of H.M. Quit-rents, Jamaica, Sept. 29, 1706–1707. Total, £2174. 9.1. Signed, Charles Chaplin. 2
pp. [C.O. 137, 8. Nos. 60, 60.i.; and (without enclosure) 138, 13. pp. 1–3.] |
Nov. 3.
Craven House. |
828. Lords Proprietors of Carolina to Edward Moseley and
John Lawson, Surveyor General of N. Carolina. The better
to enable you to put in execution your Commission (Oct. 29)
we thought it proper to inform you that the Lords' Proprietors'
Charter, Charles II., is the only legall evidence they can make
use of to assert their bounds with the Governor of Virginia.
We have therefore sent you herewith a true printed copy, etc.
Signed, Craven Palatin, Beaufort, M. Ashley, J. Colleton, J.
Danson [C.O. 5, 289. p. 234.] |
Nov. 3.
Craven House. |
829. Same to Governor Tynte, and Col. Thomas Broughton,
Surveyor General of S. Carolina. Warrant to set out 100 acres
of land to all such poor Palatines that shall land there, free
from any quit-rent for 10 years, after which they are to pay
1d. yearly per acre. Signed as preceding. [C.O. 5, 289. p.
235.] |
Nov. 4.
Whitehall. |
830. Mr. Attorney General to the Council of Trade and Plantations. I have no objections to the Act of Barbados for holding a Court of Grand Sessions etc. (Nov. 2). Signed, Ja. Mountague. Endorsed, Recd. 5th, Read 10th Nov. 1709. 1 p. [C.O.
28, 12. No. 46; and 29, 12. p. 47.] |
Nov. 4.
Admiralty Office. |
831. Mr. Burchett to Mr. Popple. Encloses following and two
Bills of Exchange signed Peter Holt, to be laid before the
Council of Trade and Plantations. Signed, J. Burchett. Endorsed, Recd. 5th, Read 8th Nov. 1709. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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831. i. E.B. to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord High Admiral.
On the 29th Oct. goeing over Tower Hill, I chanced to
take up the enclosed, etc. Signed, E.B. Addressed.
1 p. |
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831. ii. Peter Holt to Capt. William Billton, upon the CamperHoofe in Amsterdam. London, Oct. 26, 1709. Encloses two bills "for the rest of the men," with directions for transmitting the money to the sender. As
to the brigintine, if you'll take my advice, lett hir
alone, for I shall never ingadge myselfe with hir againe.
She is 20 year old, and could she be bought for little
who will goe swair that she belongs all to Englishmen, I shall not. etc. Have made some inquiery
whether anything can be recovered from Capt. Stone
or his security for the damage he did me in the Bay
of Hundoras, but I am afraid their will not. I am
sorry Mr. Handes should be so great a sufferer, he being
the only friend an Englishman can find in Curacao,
and without dout its £500 sterl. out of my owners
pocket. If such men have Commissions given them, in
a little time thear will be no going to the West Indies.
The Governor of Carolina had but little to say for
himselfe when I tould him Capt. Stone shewed me his
Commission. When the Governor gave Stone a Commission, he knew him to have don that which is by all
men called piracy, and since he robed me in the Bay,
Stone met with a briganteen that was a prise belonging to a Jemeca privateer, and tooke hir from theyr
men that was carrying hir home, and carryed hir to
Carolina and had liberty to condemn and sell the same.
As for Curacao, if it was sunk under water, it woud be
beter for England by 5 or £600,000 in one year, thear
is not a marcht. in England that trades to ye West
Indies but what is, has been and will be the worse for
that Island. You may think what I now say is a little
straing, but no more strange then new, and the Island
of St. Thomases to help us this war has been with
Curacao more dammage then Martineco. And our owne
Plantations are cheefly in the fuilt. You say you think
it might be a good thing to goe with provision from
Ireland. I cannot think it can. If 6 or 800 barills of
beefe comes in at a time, ye Jews blowe upon it, etc.
I have seene so much hard dealing by Englishmen thear,
that my bely is full of Curacao. etc. etc. Signed, Peter
Holt. 2 pp. [C.O. 323, 6. Nos. 90, 90.i.,ii.; and
(without enclosures) 324, 9. p. 414.] |
Nov. 8.
Treasury Chambers. |
832. Mr. Lowndes to Mr. Popple. Encloses following.
Signed, Wm. Lowndes. Endorsed, Recd. Read Nov. 8, 1709.
Addresseâ. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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832. i. Mr. Blathwayt to Mr. Lowndes. Cf. Nov. 2. The
1000 acres Lord Carberry proposes to surrender in
Jamaica pay a quit rent of 1d. per acre per annum.
How much the arrears thereof do amount unto does
not appear by the last return. I conceive these lands,
as unsettled, may be worth at present about £400 sterl.
Whitehall, Nov. 3, 1709. Signed, William Blathwayt.
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832. ii. Duplicate of No. 827. 1. [C.O. 137, 8. Nos. 61,
62, 62.i.; and 138, 13. pp. 4–9.] |
Nov. 8.
St. John's, Newfoundland. |
833. Mr. Collins, Commander in Chief at Newfoundland, to
Col. Nicholson. Being ordered by the Commander in Chief of
Newfoundland to command in said place untill further orders
from H.M., and being perfectly acquainted with the poverty of
the people, by reason of the many insults made against them
by the French from Placentia, and more especially since the
scandallous loss of said place last winter, I think it my duty
to acquaint your Honour, that there is in the Garrison, (which
as well as we cou'd we have re-built) 9 pieces of cannon, 20
barrils gunpowder and 100 small arms, with which we shall
to the utmost of our power defend H.M. said garrison etc.
There is within said garrison 470 persons, including women and
children, which for want of provisions, are like to be miserable,
without H.M. early relieves us, there being amongst us, at this
time, but 30,000 of bread and flour, which will scarce last 3
months at a short allowance; pork, beef and all other provisions
being wanted in the same manner; so that, unless H.M. out
of her Royal Bounty, do's give us an early and seasonable relief,
we must all of us unavoidably become slaves to the French, or
perish with famin; all which, as being in the place yourself,
you find too apparent; etc. Prays him to solicite H.M. assistance in their behalf. Signed, John Collins. Endorsed, Recd.
Read Jan. 27, 170 9/10. Copy. 1 p. [C.O. 194, 4. No. 105.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
834. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Representation upon an Act of Jamaica for the further quieting of
possessions. By this Act it is declared that all possessors of
lands, houses, negroes etc., by virtue of any deed or conveyance
whatsoever, who have been in peaceable possession for 5 years
before this Act, or shall continue in such possession from the
first possessing such lands for the space of 5 years, shall injoy
such estate and hold the same in fee against all persons whatsoever. This term of 5 years we are humbly of opinion is too
short to barr the titles of persons who are Proprietors of lands
in Jamaica, many of which Proprietors may be resident in some
of your Majesty's Dominions in Europe, or in some other of
your Majesty's Plantations, and may not have timely notice of
the loss of their possession, besides that your Majesty's claim
to any lands ought by no means to be barr'd by so short a
space as 5 years, the term of 7 years in our humble opinion
is little enough to be allowed in this case, and was the time
limmitted by a former Act of yt. Island. The Act further allows
to infants, women under coverture, and to persons of non sane
memory but three years after their being of age, the death of
their immediate husbands, or their becoming of sound mind and
memory, to commence their actions respectively for such estates
as they may lay claim to. This we think a hardship, five years
having been thought little enough here in such cases. It is
further enacted that all bills, bonds, mortgages, judgements
and all other writings obligatory whatsoever that have not been
legally demanded within 20 years since the dates thereof, and
shall not be legally demanded within 12 months from the
passing of this Act, shall become null and void. Upon this
we take leave to observe that where interest is constantly paid,
there may be no occasion to make a demand of the principal;
and therefore it seems unreasonable to make void all debts
not demanded in 20 years, besides that it may be very inconvenient to compell persons to demand their debts within the
space of 12 months. All lands, tenements, negroes etc. convey'd by bills of sale, deeds or other conveyancies whatsoever, for valuable considerations, are by this Act declared to
have pass'd and to be conveyed by the said bills of sale, deeds
etc. as fully to all intents and purposes, as any real estate
might or could pass in this Kingdom, by fine and recovery in
your Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. Upon this we humbly
observe that to make bargains and sales and other conveyances
not of record to be of equal force with fines and recoveries
may be of ill consequence to subseqt. purchasers, who may not
be privy to or cognosant of such secret conveyances; and we
find that by a former Law made there, for prevention of Law
suites, such bills of sale and conveyances were to be acknowledged
before the judge of some Court of Record, and duly recorded
there. There is a proviso in this Act, which declares that nothing therein contained shall disannull or make void any rents
or services reserved to your Majesty. Yet should this Law be
confirmed, the possession of the several grantees from the Crown
wou'd be quieted, and their titles confirmed, notwithstanding
any forfeiture they may have incurr'd, by reason of the nonperformance of covenants contained in their respective grants.
Propose that the Law be repealed and that H.M. royal pleasure
be signifyed to the Governor that, if a Law for this purpose
shall be pass'd there, not lyable to any of these or other just
objections, H.M. will be graciously inclined to approve of such
Act. [C.O. 138, 13. pp. 10–14.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
835. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Earl of Sunderland. Enclose following. We asked Mr. Whitchurch and
Mr. Jones whether they were willing to make an agreement with
H.M. in order to the providing for the poor Palatines, but
they declined to do it. Annexed, |
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835. i. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Recapitulate their negotiations with Mr. Whitchurch, Mr.
Jones, Sir Robert Cotton, Lord Carberry and Mr. Compeer, for settlement of Palatines in Jamaica. Propose that 1000 Palatines be transported at H.M. charge
to Lynch Island, there to continue till they shall be
settled in Jamaica, and that the harbour of St. Antonio
be made a Port of Entry, and that a small Fort be
built there for its security. The most commodious
place for their settlement in Jamaica is between the
N.E. of Rio Grande and the S.E. of Point Morante,
where a sufficient number of acres may be granted
under the Seale of the Island to them and their heirs
for ever, not exceeding 5 acres per head for every
person in each family, which proportion of acres we
conceive may, when cultivated yeild a reasonable maintenance for them, by ye produce of ginger, cotton,
indigo, annotto, rice and other commodities. As for
sugar, the produce thereof is a work of time and great
expence, yet they may fall into it as they grow able to
purchase negros and cattle; such a settlement, especially if there be a small fort built on Linch Island will
effectually secure the south as well as north side of
Jamaica, from any attempt of an enemy, and when
these people are well settled in planting, they will soon
reimburse your Majesty and this Kingdom, as well by
their consumption of Brittish manufactures, as by the
duties arising on their produce, which after 8 or 10
years may be a considerable increase of the Customes,
besides the benefit to Navigation. Although the greatest part of the land within the limmits aforementioned
is already granted by letters patents to others, who
have held the same for 20 or 30 years past without
making the least step towards settling it, and as we
have reason to beleive, seldome if ever paid the quitrent, to the great injury and loss of the publick and
of your Majesty's Revenue there, and without any
benefit to themselves; yet Col. Lloyd, Col. Long and Mr.
Broughton, who have good estates there, make no doubt if
the Palatines were sent to Jamaica, but without having
recourse to any other method for revesting these lands
in the Crown, the present owners will, for so great a
good, freely surrender to your Majesty 2/3rds or ¾ths
of their said lands. But if the lands which shall be
voluntarily surrendered by the Proprietors (Lord Carberry etc.) shall not be sufficient for this intended
settlement, we humbly represent that there are in Jamaica some millions of acres of proffitable land, of
which more than one half remain unpossessed or unpatented, and therefore in such case we humbly offer
that the Governor and Councill be directed to seat the
said Palatines on the said unpatented lands in the
severall parishes (though this will not be so advantagious
as the seating them near Port St. Antonio) and according to the information we have had the inhabitants
will help them to make their settlements, as 'tis their
interest so to do, they being sensible how much they
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On this occasion we take leave to observe that by
a Law of Jamaica, 1682, every master of slaves, for ye
first 5 working slaves, is obliged to keep one white
man-servant, overseer or hired man for 3 months at the
least; for 10 slaves two whites, and for every 10 slaves
over and above the said number one white to be resident on the Plantation where the negroes are employed,
on penalty of £5 for every servant that shall be wanting,
which Law being not complyed with by many of the
said masters, such of them as are deficient in their
respective proportions of white men, are compelled to
quarter a soldier belonging to the regular forces, for
every white man he wants of his quota, or else to allow
to every such soldier 5/s. per week. Wherefore we
humbly offer, whether as a temporary provision for
these Palatines, or for a good number of them, till they
shall be otherways settled, in case they are not settled
near Port St. Antonio, according to the first part of
our proposal, it may not be proper to recommend it to
the Governor, Councill and Assembly to subsist them on
such deficiencies whereon soldiers are not already
charged. And whereas great tracts of lands have been
granted to persons who have neglected to seat or plant
the same (as already mentioned) to the great prejudice
of that Island, for the prevention of the like mischeif
for the future it will be necessary that in every grant
hereafter to be made to the said Palatines or to any
other persons, there be an express proviso that the
lands so granted shall be seated and planted within a
reasonable time to be therein prefix'd, or on failure
thereof, such grant to be void, and the lands to revert
to the Crown. And we further humbly offer that, in
every such grant to the said Palatines there be a clause
exempting them from the payment of any quit-rents
for a reasonable number of years from the date of each
respective grant. If your Majesty shall approve of what
we have herein humbly offered, it will be requisite that
these poor people before they begin their voyage, be
supplyed with convenient cloathing, bedding, tools,
armes, provisions, etc. In regard these poor people
will not be able to maintain themselvs wholly out of
the produce of their labour till about 12 months after
the clearing and planting the ground, it is proposed
that they be subsisted with bread for one year, and
with other provisions for 6 months, according to the
annexed paper, which we hope may be sufficient, for
that there are potatoes, peas, and several other sorts of
pulse, that will be ready for their food in a less time,
besides that there is plenty of fish on the coast, and
wild hogs etc. in the woods. If these Palatines shall
be settled near Port St. Antonio, which we look upon as
the most advantagious place being so scituated, that
the windward passage from thence to Great Britain may
be made at any time of ye year, and consequently the
trade from thence very much facilitated and increased,
and therefore most proper for a settlement, we offer
that they be encouraged to settle in partnership, that
is, three or four families in one Plantation, whereby
some may hunt, fish or fowl, while others clear and
plant the land. While they are on Lynch Island, the
Channell is so narrow and the passage so short to
the Island of Jamaica, that they may easily and frequently cross over and help to clear the land, on which
as it is cleared, they may by degrees seat themselvs.
And for their further encouragement thereto, we humbly offer that the Governor of Jamaica be directed upon
their arrival to grant them letters of naturalization
without fee or reward, and that they may enjoy all such
priviledges and advantages as are enjoyed by the present
inhabitants of that Island. In this manner we hope
these poor people, or a considerable number of them,
may be disposed of, and settled to the benefit not only
of Jamaica, but of the trade of this Kingdom, the
persons themselvs gain a comfortable livelyhood by their
industry, your Majesty eased of the great charge you
are now at in the subsisting of them, and reap a
considerable advantage by the increase of the Customes.
Refer contracts for transportation to the proper
officers. Lastly we humbly offer that your Royal pleasure be signifyed to the Governor and Councill of Jamaica that they cause Lynch Island to be forthwith
cleared and hutts built for the reception of these Palatines upon their first landing, the clearing of the whole
Island being convenient for the preserving the health
of those who shall be settled there, and the charge
thereof will not exceed the rate of £3 per acre for
clearing the ground, which (the Island consisting of
about 80 acres) will not amount to above £240; nor
can the building of a sufficient number of hutts, where
there is wood and timber plentifull, add much to the
expence, and that the Governor and Councill be directed
to recommend it in ye most effectual manner they can
to the Assembly, that provision be made by a law for
the settlement of these poor people on the main Island,
in the manner hereby proposed, a copy of which proposal may be transmitted to the said Governor and
Councill for that purpose, to which we have reason to
beleive the Assembly will agree, on account of the
great benefit the Island will receive, as well in regard
to their security against an enemy as to the advancement of their trade; But if the Assembly shall not be
prevailed upon to undertake this service, to the end
the same may not be disapptd., we humbly propose that
the Governor and Councill be ordered to make such
provision for their settlement at your Majesties expence. Annexed, |
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835. i. List of stores and ordinance to be sent with the
Palatines. [C.O. 138, 13. pp. 15–30.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
836. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Representation upon petition of Lt. Gov. Hamilton, Sept. 16. q.v. We
have been attended by several planters and considerable merchants trading to the Leeward Islands, who have produced to
us ample certificates of his affection to your Majesty's Government, of his having distinguish'd himself by his courage and
good conduct in several considerable posts both civill and military, and of his being generally in good esteem of the inhabitants. Finding therefore that there are presidents of what he
desires (vizt. Col. Thomas Hill and Col. Edward Fox were
constituted Lt. General by King William) and that this is only
an honorary title which will be no addition of charge to your
Majesty, for during the presence of a Capt. General, Hamilton
will receive no other salary than what he now does as Lt.
Governor of Nevis, and in case of the death or absence of
the Captain General, he will have the command of all the said
Islands, and receive a moiety of the salary and the perquisits,
which is no more than he will now do, as he is Lt. Governor
of Nevis, we have nothing to object, if your Majesty please to
grant him a Commission to be Lt. Governor of the Islands.
[C.O. 153, 10. pp. 383–385.] |
Nov. 9.
Whitehall. |
837. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Representation upon an Act of Barbadoes, May 10, 1709, appointing
Agents to transact the publick affairs of this Island. We find since
1666 there have been frequent disputes between the Council and
Assembly about the nominating and appointing Agents residing
within this Kingdom, the Assembly having claimed a right of such
nomination and appointment exclusive of the Governor and Council, and they having for the most part done the same by a
clause in the Excise Bill, refusing to grant the duty arising
thereby, unless they named the sd. Agents in the Bill, to which
the Council were sometimes necessitated for the sake of the
said duty to consent; by this means (the Excise Bill being
made for one year only) the Assembly annually nominated the
Agents notwithstanding the opposition made thereunto by the
Council. But we do not find that any of those Laws whereby
Agents have been constituted have at any time been confirmed
by your Majesty or any of your Royal predecessors. In 1697,
when the Assembly insisted on their pretended right, the then
President in Council disallowed thereof for the reasons mentioned Minutes of Council Aug. 24, 1697. But not to go too
far back we shall only humbly lay before your Majesty what
has passed relating to the appointment of Agents since Mr.
Crow's arrival there. The Assembly in March 1707/8 sent up to
the Council a new Excise Bill with the usual clause for the
Agents in it, the Council upon consideration thereof, gave their
reasons for not allowing the said clause; this occasioned several
messages and conferences between the Council and Assembly,
and upon the Council's insisting to have the said clause omitted,
the Assembly on March 19, 1707/8, in consideration of the great
want of mony there was at that time, passed the Excise Bill
without the said clause, but made the following resolves:—"that from the first constitution and appointing of Agents in
England for the publick service of this Island, the right of
appointing such Agents was and is in the Representative Body
of this Island. The Members of Council by setting up a right
with this House to nominate and appoint such Agents, have
endeavoured to invade the right which is solely vested in this
House." In Dec. 1708, the first above-mentioned Act for appointing Agents (which is founded upon the foresaid resolves, the
preamble setting forth the necessity of the inhabitants having
Agents here, to solicit for them, and the next clause desiring the
Governor and Council to ratify the Assembly's nomination and
appointment of their Agents) was brought into the Assembly,
where it lay till May, and was then passed by them and sent up to
the Council; but whether the Council made then any objections
to this Act or no, does not appear to us, their Minutes for
that time not having been yet transmitted. However as this
Act excludes the Governor and Council from nominating and
appointing Agents, we humbly conceive that Mr. Crow has not
done his duty in passing the same. But that your Majesty may
have a clearer view of this pretention of the Assembly, we further
take leave to represent that in Nov. 1708, the persons named in
the first abovementioned Act for Agents delivered to us a
paper entitled some positions laid down, that the General Assembly exclusive of the Governor and Council may appoint
Agents to negotiate the publick affairs of this Island in England,
which paper containing some positions of a very extraordinary
and dangerous consequence, we take leave to annex a copy
thereof, and upon it to make the following observations:—We
do agree that it is the undoubted right of the subject, either
in his private capacity, or as a body politic, to apply to your
Majesty by petition, complaint or other Address, so it be done
in such manner as the Law directs; yet we can by no means
admit it to be a necessary consequence, that therefore the
Generall Assembly of Barbadoes, exclusive of the Governor and
Council there, has a right to appoint persons under a publick
character of Agents for negotiating in this Kingdom the public
affairs of that Island, by way of application to your Majesty;
such a pretended right is no ways founded upon good reason, nor
warranted by the like usage in any other Plantation under your
Majesty's imediate Government; but is inconsistant with the
nature and form thereof, and may tend to create jealousies
and divisions in the several parts of that Legislature, to the
manifest disquiet of your Majesty's subjects there, and to the
prejudice of that trade. If such exclusive power of appointing
publick Agents be allowed to the General Assembly, with as much
reason may the Governor and Council severaly claim a like
power, exclusive one of the other, to appoint their respective
Agents; for if the General Assembly cannot (as they suggest)
rely upon the service of any other Agents than such as are
solely chosen by and intirely dependant on them; what use can
the Governor or Council expect to have of Agents so chosen,
who are intirely independant either of the Governor or Council?
What mischief and confusion in business such distinct agencies
may occasion by their interfering and clashing one with another,
according to the several instructions they may receive from their
respective principals is so obvious, we [will] not trouble Your
Majesty therewith. Among the several reasons given for allowing an exclusive right in the General Assembly, some of
them are very extraordinary, they being founded upon unjust
suppositions, that the Governor and Council will refuse or neglect
to employ their best offices for procuring from your Majesty
a concession of whatever may reasonably be desired for the
ease, safety or benefit of the Island; and that they will in all
matters be inclined to support and maintain the Prerogative
without having a due regard to the rights and priviledges of
the subject. This is to suppose not only that so many of the
principal inhabitants as constitute the Council have no share
in, or concern for the good of their country; but that both
Governor and Council will act contrary to the express trust reposed in them; and we look upon any insinuation as tho' the
interest of the Crown were separate from that of the subject
to be fals and of dangerous consequence. Wherefore we are
humbly of opinion that the General Assembly of Barbadoes,
exclusive of the Governor and Council, has not any right nor
ought to be allowed to appoint persons under the character of
publick Agents for negotiating in this Kingdom the publick
affairs of that Island, nor do we see wherein such appointments
of Agents by the Assembly can answer the end they propose,
since they cannot reasonably expect that your Majesty will
come to any resolution upon the applycation of such Agents in
publick matters without refering the same to the Governor, or
to him and the Council there, for their opinion therein. And
therefore we humbly offer that your Majesty be pleased to
signify your disallowance and disapprobation of the said Act
for appointing Agents. But in case your Majesty shall think
fit that Agents may be nominated and appointed by the joint
consent of the Governor, Council and Assembly, to negotiate
here the publick affairs of that Island, as is practised in Jamaica,
and some other of the Plantations, we have no objection to it.
[C.O. 29, 12. pp. 39–45.] |
Nov. 10.
Whitehall. |
838. W. Popple to the President of the Council of New York.
Encloses H.M. letter of Oct. 29. [C.O. 5, 1121. p. 445.] |
Nov. 10.
Whitehall. |
839. Same to Lt. Governor Gookin. Encloses letters for
the Presidents of the Council of New York and New Jersey, to
be forwarded with all dispatch, etc. [C.O. 5, 1121. p. 446.] |
Nov. 10.
Whitehall. |
840. Same to the President of the Council of New Jersey.
Encloses H.M. letter to Col. Ingolsby, revoking his commission,
Oct. 29. [C.O. 5, 995. p. 31.] |
Nov. 10.
Whitehall. |
841. Mr. Pringle to Mr. Popple. Encloses letter from Lord
Sunderland, to be forwarded to the President of New York,
about making provision for the Palatines, etc. Signed, Ro.
Pringle. Endorsed, Recd. Read Nov. 11, 1709. 1 p. [C.O.
5, 1049. No. 133; and 5, 1121. p. 447.] |
| Nov. 11. |
842. Mr. Delafaye to Mr. Popple. Encloses 2 duplicates
of Lord Sunderland's letter as preceding. Signed, C. Delafaye.
Endorsed, Recd. 12th, Read 14th Nov., 1709. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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842. i. Earl of Sunderland to the President of the Council of
New York. The Queen having thought fit to order the
sending of 3000 of the poor Palatines to New York, has
commanded me to tell you that they are to sail from
hence about Dec. 15, to the end that you may consult
with H.M. Council there upon the proper measures to
be taken for providing for these poor people at their
arrival in your parts, both as to lodging and provisions. H.M. does particularly recommend this to your
care; the expence of it will be answered from hence,
H.M. intention being that these people should in no
wise become a burthen to your Colony. Countersigned,
Sunderland. [C.O. 5, 1049. Nos. 134, 134.i.; and
5, 1121. pp. 449, 450; and 5, 210. p. 185.] |
Nov. 11.
Whitehall. |
843. Mr. Popple to Lt. Governor Gookin. Encloses above
letter to be forwarded, etc. [C.O. 5, 1121. p. 448.] |
Nov. 11.
Whitehall. |
844. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Representation upon an Act of Barbados, 1708, for holding a Court
of Grand Sessions, etc. This Act is the same in substance with
an Act concerning the General Sessions, 1698. That wherein
we find they chiefly vary is, that the charges of each Session
not exceeding £100 sterl. in any session, are by this Act to
be defray'd out of your Majesty's casual Revenue in that Island,
whereas by the former Act they were defray'd out of part of
the said Revenue, vizt. out of the fines, forfeitures and amerciaments. But as the said Casual Revenue is apply'd there for the
uses of that Government, we have no objection why your Majesty
may not be graciously pleased to ratify and confirm the said
Act. [C.O. 29, 12. p. 18.] |
Nov. 12.
Whitehall. |
845. Mr. Popple to Mr. Attorney General. Encloses extract
from Governor Handasyd's letter (June 14) relating to a seizure
of ambergrease, for his opinion what is proper to be done in
that matter. [C.O. 138, 13. p. 52.] |
| Nov. 12. |
846. Draft of a letter of Attorney from the Earl of Carbery
impowering the Council of Jamaica to surrender his lands near
Port St. Antonio, etc. Signed, Carbery. Endorsed, Nov. 14,
1709. 1½ pp. Enclosed, |
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846. i. Plan of Lord Carbery's lands referred to in preceding.
1 p. [C.O. 137, 8. Nos. 68, 69.] |
| [Nov. 14.] |
847. Mr. Fauconnier to [? Governor Lord Lovelace]. New
York, Feb. 8, 1708/9. Encloses accounts etc., of New Jersey up
to Dec. 13, 1706, "since which all salaries etc. are owing," and
a list of papers relating to that Province, which are yet in
my Lord Cornbury's hands, and which I supose the trouble of
mind he lays under has made him forget to deliver to your
Excellency. Signed, P. Fauconnier. Endorsed, Recd. Nov. 14,
1709. (Transmitted by Mr. Cockeril to the Earl of Stamford).
1 p. Enclosed, |
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847. i. A general state of the accounts of H.M. Revenues and
Fines in New Jersey, Dec. 1704–1706. Revenue: total,
£3894. 8. 1. Charges, £4054. 15. 6. Fines, 1706; £40.
12. Mr. Fauconnier's expenses, £46. Signed and endorsed as preceding. 2 pp. Torn. |
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847. ii. Speech of Governor Lord Lovelace to the Assembly
of New Jersey, March 4, 1708; the Council's Address to
H.M.; and Addresses from the Council and the Assembly to Lord Lovelace. Endorsed as preceding. Printed.
12 pp. |
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847. iii. Duplicate of preceding. [C.O. 5, 970. Nos. 89,
89.i.–iii.] |
| Nov. 14. |
848. Observations upon several grants of land at New York.
(1) Grants have been made of all the lands that could be discovered: some of them very large tracts, and in all that are good
and valuable Mr. Fauconnier or Mr. Bridges, and sometimes
both, are pattentees. (2) Grants have been made of such lands
as should hereafter be discovered, as to Capt. Lancaster Symes
of all the unpatented land on Staten Island, by which meanes
several poor persons who were by the permission and connivance
of the Government setled on small tracts of land where neither
the persons nor lands were of value to pay the fees of a
patent are lyable and already threatned to be turned out of
possession. (3) Where persons have by license purchased lands
from the Indians, their lands have been granted away to others.
Dr. Staats' case concerning Wiwanda. (4) Grants have been
made of lands formerly pattented to others, which former patents
have thereby (as far as in Governor and Councill lys) been set
aside, so was Newton patent in effect declared void tho' under
the Seale of the Province, because not found on the Records, tho
indorsed by the then Secretary to be recorded. But part of
the lands contained in that Patent were since granted to the town
of Bushwick for £300 (as 'tis said), other part to Mr. Bodinot
in discharg of £300 due for part of Lady Cornbury's funeral,
other part to Mrs. Bridges, Capt. Ask, Mr. Hoogland, Mr. Milward and others for £400. Lands between high water and
lowater mark on Long Island lately granted to ye City of New
York for £300, being the lands lately in possession of several
inhabitants, tho' now covered with the sea, the land being
washed away. (5) Some, or at least one grant has been made
without advice of the Councill, which is conceived to be against
the Queen's Instructions, as the houses in the City of New York
lately burnt down, said to belong formerly to Governour Lovelace, and no person claiming from him as heir at law, the
same was seized for the Crown and lately granted privately to
Wilson and Ask etc. |
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In relation to the Revenue (1) The Act says for the better
defraying of the Publick and necessary charges and expences of
this Province, the money is raised. By the Governor's Instructions he is not to permit any of the Revenue to be issued
forth but by order from himself by advice of H.M. Councill.
Hence it followed that whatever was proposed by the Govr.
to the Councill, and consequently whatever Mr. Fauconnier demanded, was allowed of by the Councill and warrants granted
accordingly. So the extravagant charges of one voyage to Albany
amounted to near £2,200, and no stint was put to the expence
of firewood and candles for the fort. (2) The officers of the
Government and others to whom money is oweing on warrants
think the late Act for refunding £711. 5. misapplyed in the
£1800 tax very greivous on them, being to be raised out
of the Revenue which should grow due on or before Dec. 3,
being to reimburse Col. Wenham and Mr. Fauconier, who had
misimployd £500 and upwards in ye £1800 tax formerly rais'd
for building forts etc. on pretence that it was imployd for
the Queen's service in payment of warrants, which the officers
say were to defray the extravagant expences in the Albany
journey, which if they ought to have been payed should have
given place to sallary warrants. Nor was there any reason to
forestall the Revenue and raise an interest of 10 p.c. to be
paid out of the Revenue, if that money had been imployd in
paying sallary warrants then due. They say 'tis plain that Col.
Wenham and Mr. Fauconier did not discharg their duty, and
if they are money out of pocket, there is no reason they should
be reimburs'd out of moneys due to others, who have discharg'd
their dutys, and the question is whether a Revenue granted to
the Queen can be taken from H.M. even by Act of Assembly
without H.M. or the Lord Treasurer's express directions. The
officers likewise suffer £500 and upwards by two sallarys being
taken for ye same office Mr. Fauconier and Mr. Byerley, if Mr.
Byerley suspension was unlawfull, then Mr. Fauconier must apply
himself to him that sett him at worke for his wages. (3) It is
thought a hardship on the officers of the Governmt. that when
Mr. Byerley was suspended Mr. Fauconier should be put in Comn.
on purpose as they imagin that he should pay himself the £2000
or thereabouts which he pretended he disburst for ye Government,
whereas if the same were bona fide due to the said Fauconier,
which they deny, yet sallary warrants ought first to be paid, and
they think it still harder on them yt. when Mr. Byerley was
restored, Feb. 1, 170 8/9, that Mr. Fauconier should detain in his
hands recognizances of excise due and payable Feb. 18 and May
18 following, when the condition of those recognizances were for
paymt. of moneys to ye Queen's Collector or Receiver Generall,
and they look on Mr. Fauconier's pretences that the recognizances
were burnt, to be a fraud to deceive the Queen. Endorsed, Transmitted by Mr. Cockeril to the Earl of Stamford, Recd. Nov. 14,
Read Dec. 27, 1709. 2¼ pp. [C.O. 5, 1049. No. 146.] |
| [Nov. 14.] |
849. Messrs. Rip van Dam, Wenham and Philips to the
Governor Lord Lovelace, New York, Feb. 3, 1708/9. Enclose following. The stores in Fort St. Ann are in great disorder. We
propose that the Commission Officers of H.M. Forces be ordered
to make a compleat list of the old stores before they are intermixt with the new ones, etc. Signed, Rip van Dam, Tho.
Wenham, C.v. D. Philips. Endorsed as preceding. 1 p. Enclosed, |
|
849. i. List of stores and arms in Fort St. Anne, New York.
6 pp. [C.O. 5, 1049. Nos. 147, 147.i.] |
Nov. 14.
London. |
850. Micajah Perry, Thomas Byfield and Co. to the Council
of Trade and Plantations. Mr. Thomas Wenham owes us a large
sum on account of cargoes of goods. But he having a great
intrest with the Ld. Cornbury, and being one of the Councell of
New York, we cannot bring him to justice. Pray that he be
removed from the Council. Signed, Micaj. Perry, Thomas Byfield, Joseph Marshall. Endorsed, Recd. Read Nov. 14, 1709.
1 p. [C.O. 5, 1049. No. 135; and 5, 1121. pp. 451, 452.] |
| Nov. 14. |
851. Mr. Solicitor General to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Reply to Oct. 31. I find the Act to relieve this
Colony (New York) from divers irregularities and extortions agreable to the Law and practise of England in every part but
the last clause, whereby 'tis enacted that no person prosecuted
for any crime, and acquitted by verdict, shall be oblig'd to pay
any fees for or relating to his prosecution, unless the Fees of
the Officers respectively, whom he does or shall employ, for
and in order to his necessary defence and discharge; for this
clause may discharge such persons from paying the ordinary
Fees to the officers of the Courts where they are prosecuted and
tried, whereas Fees are due to the officers of our Courts upon
all acquitalls. I am of opinion that the Act for the easier
partition of lands in joint tenancy or in common will clear a
difficulty which the people of the Colony who are jointenants
or tenants in common have hitherto labour'd under, and is well
enough contrived to answer the purpose intended by it. Signed,
R. Eyre. Endorsed, Recd. 16th, Read 21st Nov., 1709. 1 p.
Enclosed, |
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851. i. Duplicate of Mr. Popple's letter, Oct. 31. [C.O. 5,
1049. Nos. 136, 136.i.; and (without enclosure) 5,
1121. pp. 453, 454.] |
Nov. 14.
Antigua. |
852. Governor Parke to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Though I have not had the honour of recieving any
letter from your Lordshipps since Aug. 12, yet I thinke it my
duty (by all opertunitys) to informe your Lordshipps of the
state of my Government. Wee are all in peace, and like to make
good cropps (as the Planters tell me). Wee are threatned with
the comeing of Ducass, but the Islanders will not believe it,
and consequently will not spare one negroe to be imployed for
their defence; they insist still upon their Speaker's haveing the
negative voice, (or signeing last, which is the same thing) in
passing all Laws. I have already writt so largely on this, and it
being so largely treated of in my answer to the Articles, I
shall not trouble your Lordshipps further with it, but expect your
orders what I shall doe further in it. I have soe often tryed
them, and they still insisting upon this point that I will never
put the Island to the charge of calling them together untill
I have your orders how to behave myselfe in this point. I have
for this 8 months expected orders about it for the minutes relateing to this dispute were sent last November. All those that
subscribed the Articles have been sumoned before the Councill
to know if they did subscribe them, but there was not one that
would owne it. I hope your Lordshipps will send me the originall
to answer, and if what I am charged with be true, I ought
to be punished, but if not, those that have falsely accused me.
I can have no remedy but by action at law, and except I can
have the originall (which they signed) I can have no action
for the Law allows of noe coppys for evidence. By Act of
Parliament, if I injure any one in my Government he may
bring his action against me in any part of the Queen's dominions;
if I have not the same liberty, I had better have been a Porter
then a Governour. As I have been inform'd those that complained against Governour Crow signed what they had to say
against him, and deliver'd it to him, this was acting fairely
with him; on the contrary when I sent to them to desire them
to lett me know my crimes, and if I had done anyone an
injury, I would make them satisfaction, or if the Publick had
anything to charge me with, let me know it, I would redress
it, or the Assembly should sitt till they had drawne them up, to
send home and my answer should goe with them, but I had
no answer from them, but the articles were a secret to all but
the managers. Two thirds of those that subscribed them knew
not what they were (as has plainly apeared since) and it is
a plaine demonstration those Articles were only to throw dyrt,
for they expected to gett me out by the £5000 they had raised,
and by my Lord Peterborrough's (Coll. Codrington's great friend)
intrest, and it is their custome, after the Queen's, to drink his
health. My Lord Marleborrough's is never dranke but by my
friends, because he is my patron, nor do they ever rejoyce at
his success, they never expected I should have had the Articles
sent me, and have liberty to answer them, and talked soe in
their publick discourse, and now it plainly appeares how much
they depended on their Articles; for the Diamond comeing here
the latter end of August brought me a letter from my Agent,
Mr. Perry, which informed me that your Lordshipps had made a
report that I ought to have liberty to answer. This piece of
Justice (which your Lordshipps did me) had like to have cost
me my life, for on Sept. 5th, I was waylayd as I came home
in the evening with two Gent. with me, and shott at from
behind a hedge in a kane piece etc. as letter from Michael
Ayon. Sept. 20. I shall loose the use of my arme. All that my
friends could doe could not take the negroe, or him that was with
him, they gott them of off the Island. I have charity enough
to believe that not above 5 or 6 of them were guilty of this
piece of villany, and by a great many circumstances the managers
that sett Mr. Otto, and the negroe to do it, were Coll. William
Thomas, and one Mr. Field, a drunken quarrellsome fighting
parson, who runn away on the Saturday night, which was the
night the first designe was laid, for I went out in the morning
to view the troope, and Col. Byam's Regiment, but disapointed
them by lyeing out at the Governour's. I was waylayd on
Sunday night comeing home, but being surrounded by Gentlemen,
they could not doe it; on the Monday night it was done, Otto
and the negroe imediately absented. Repeats part of Ayon's
letter. This negroe is a very noted fellow (though I don't
know him myselfe) and is very remarkeable for his courage and
being a good markesman, being a native of the place and imployed to shoot wild pigeons and the parson is noted even in
this place for his cruelty, never was knowne to forgive a slave
for absenting from his worke, often whipping them without mercy
and castrateing them. The best negroe he had and one of the
finest in the Island, he not only castrated but cutt off one of
his leggs for absenting himselfe from his worke, the fellow
dyed under his hands, he never was knowne to forgive a negroe
or to begg for any. I haveing (myselfe) begg'd off severall
negroes, the parson being afraid I should (sometime or other)
begg for some of his, told me if anyone should begg for a
negroe of his he would punish him the more for it, now the
Parson's begging for this notorious fellow was a surprize to
everyone till they found he was the negroe that shott me, the
Parson's going off that very day that I was laid to be shott
at night, for nobody that I can find out knew of his going off,
till after he was gone, Mr. Laferte the Parson that preached for
him the next day told me he knew nothing of his going off,
and that he desired him only to preach that day, telling him
that he was to goe to the other side of the Island. Mr. Field
for this 4 or 5 year has constantly talked of going hence every
fleet, and there was then some shipps ready to sayle, and the
mann of warr was ordered to convoy them, and did doe it 3
or 4 days after, and our Great Fleet was to saile in 3 weekes;
it is true the small vessell he went in was not used to stay for
the great convoy, she had been ready for severall days, and I
had writt my letters to goe by her, but the master told me he
would stay a few days for the mann of warr to see him off,
but just as I was going to bedd on the Fryday night, he comes
to me and tells me he should sayle to-morrow. I did all I
could to persuade him to stay two days longer for the mann of
warr, since he had stayed already, 5 or 6. I was the more earnest
with him because she belonged to my friends Mr. Perry and Sir
Jeffry Jeffreys, the Master seemed to be under some concerne, and
went from me, as I thought, resolved to stay. I told him if he
resolved to goe, to send for my letters in the morneing. I stayed
at home till 10 in the morneing, nobody comeing for my letters,
I sent them to the Collectors with orders if Capt. Harry sailed,
to give him them, he sailed that afternoon and lay by over
against Dr. Mackinnen's, which is about 3 miles to the northward
of the harbour, it was there it seems hee tooke on board the
Parson and Col. Thomas, and one he calls his wife, and their
things which had layne there sometime ready. The Collector
sent the Custome-house boate with my letters, but he would not
stay for her. Everyone concludes they hired him to be ready
at an hour's warneing, for he seem'd for severall days to be
under some concerne, and used to say for severall days, he did
not know but he might sayle to-morrow, and had been cleared at
the Custome-house some time. I daresay they never told Capt.
Harry the true reason, but what made him have a concerne upon
him was, he being a stranger could gett nobody to be his secureity
here, for all vessells by the law of the place, are to give a
thousand pound secureity to carry nobody off without the Governour's lycence, and his vessell belonging to my friends in
London, I desired two of my friends here to be his secureity,
and they are (by his takeing off those people without a certificate) lyable to pay the penalty. The reason wee suppose of his
being kept soe long and allways to be ready, they wayted for
my rideing out, which I seldome doe except it is to a muster,
and since I was shott my people tells me this negroe came
severall times to enquire if I was to ride out or not, and the
first time I rid out they designed to sett sayle, for they were
afraid (as I suppose) if the negroe or young Otto were taken,
one or both might confess who sett them on to doe it. Another
circumstance is, noe one had any influence over the young Otto
but Parson Field, for though his father has a good estate here,
yett the young man is a profligate wretch keeping company
only with mallattoes, and such sort, they picked him to begin
the riot. A circumstance against Col. Thomas besides his going
off after this manner is that about Xmas last everyone thought
that Mr. Nivine was lost going home with their Articles, for
severall vessels comeing in brought no news of him. Col. Thomas
at a meeting of their party at his house, they all being concern'd
for the loss of Nivine, said lett us imploy some of our negroes
to shoot him, and accordingly some litle time after, I was shott
at but missed, and Capt. Clarke was alsoe shott in the eveneing
takeing him for me, being such another as myselfe in my colloured clothes and on a white horse, which collour'd horse I
generally ride. I tooke then no notice of it, though I was desired
by my friends, for the future I shall never be out after sunnsett,
nor goe out but I will have a number of my friends about me.
This action of theirs will doe me a kindness, if I have justice
done me at home, for the people that were drawne in by their
falce and scandallous storys beginns to see through it all, and
very many abhor what they have done, so that I have noe
doubt but when this complaint is over, to live very happy and
to persuade them to make good Laws. Your Lordshipps may
naturally conclude I had done some very great injury to these
three people Otto, Field and Thomas; about two year agoe young
Otto had a bastard by a poor wench, and he refused to take any
care of it she complained to me I sent her to a Justice she
told me she had but they would not meddle in it, whereupon I
sent to him to take care of the child. In running the lines
round the towne, I was forced to goe throw part of Parson
Field's ground, and yet I did him very litle hurt, but he was
as angry as if I had taken away part of his land for my
owne use, and from that time preached such sermons to the
people as I thanke God I never heard before. I disoblieged Col.
Thomas because I would not turne out a man that I found
Treasurer, and to whome the Country was much in debt, to put
himselfe in his place; I would have made him of the Councill,
and put him into the list I sent your Lordshipps, but that
would not then please him because the other was more profitable,
these are the crimes for which I was to be assassinated. A
Bristoll shipp has brought us the good news of the Duke's victory
near Mons. My friends and myselfe that evening expressed our
joy in the best manner wee could, but the others seemed rather
angry then pleased; they looked just as the Jacobites did when
I brought the news of the victory of Hochstat. Signed, Daniel
Parke. Endorsed, Recd. 14th, Read 19th Jan. 170 9/10. 7 pp.
[C.O. 152, 9. No. 5; and 153, 10. pp. 458–470.] |
| [Nov. 14.] |
853. Some considerations relating to the good Government
of Barbados, presented to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Proposal to increase the Governor's salary, in order to keep him
out of temptation, etc. If the Island decline as much in the
next 20 years as it has done in the last, what will become of
the women and children; for it will be incapable of subsisting
the inhabitants? Endorsed, Recd. 14th, Read 28th Nov. 1709.
6½ pp. [C.O. 28, 13. No. 1.] |
Nov. 15.
Whitehall |
854. Mr. Popple to John Baber. The Council of Trade and
Plantations desire to speak with you upon your memorial, etc.
(cf. Oct. 29). [C.O. 138, 13. p. 53.] |
