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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as also for all public money which reaches his hands or is disposed of by his order without the Council's … ever before; but as you know this Island is not Barbados or Jamaica. Barbados has sent some relief to her distressed … and their owners have been forced to take to other trades or languish in gaol. There is hardly money to maintain the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Forts, and surely we shall have ships enough to take or burn that little squadron. I wonder Ducasse should venture … my ships able to swim, I should endeavour for Carthagena, or bear away for the Havana. I have endeavoured to prevail … stands near the mouth of it, is not strong, nor has it, or is it indeed capable at present of entertaining a number …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Sept. 9. Windsor. 1110. Duke of Monmouth to Lord Culpeper or officer in chief commanding his company. He is forthwith … embark the company of foot under his command at Gravesend or other convenient place on board the vessels appointed to … provision ready for them as shows their purpose on us or the Spaniard. The Spaniards have lately given them a just …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… away. If there were an ordinance forbidding either masters or planters to destroy the stages under penalties, the work … they have the advantage of the English. There are no forts or castles in any of their plantations. There was a fort of … There is a Governor, but he has no allowance from the King or from the planters who live there. Nor has he any allowance …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… entering upon the Government been so far from endeavouring or proposeing an accommodation, that he has only added warmth … could have prevailed with him to alter his measures, or if there were any prospect of his being made sensible of … of some parts thereof, on which without the least proof or any farther enquiry, they have come to several very …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… us; and shall be glad to receive from you any draughts or surveys which you shall be able to procure. We have … of the Plantations, full liberty of debate, assent, or dissent, is allowed to every Councillor and it may perhaps be adviseable not to be too nice or extreme in the infancy of a Colony in observing upon the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… stated to have derived its latter name from Robert Paris or Parys, the younger, who is named as one of the … immense treasures which from that time had lain concealed or neglected was not thought of till the year 1762, when Mr. … his men to sink shafts in several places, within 700 or 800 yards of the spot, and in less than two days they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… remains to record the boundary line between British tribes or Saxon provinces; but the only type of earthwork much in … which are represented in this county. Class C.-Rectangular or other simple inclosures, including forts and towns of the … whether surrounding the grounds as that at Fulham Palace, or washing the walls of the house, as Headstone. In class G …
A History of the County of Oxford
… may hold in the relics which lie buried beneath its area or within its banks, can we as a rule assign its construction … partly inaccessible, by reason of precipices, cliffs, or water, additionally defended by artificial works, usually … defences, following the natural line of the hill; or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… inventories. Other earthworks similarly intermingled or of uncertain nature, sometimes possible settlements, are … are on the Clay-with-Flints often capping the chalk hills or on sandy and gravelly areas adjoining chalk soils (Groups … whether in the form of strip lynchets, 2 as in Group (19), or broad ridge-and-furrow (Group 1), both mediaeval in form, …