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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I cannot yet learn, no more then that the state of those Islands are not sent pursuant to my orders, of all which due … at Antigua, and Mountserrat being the windwardmost Islands has occasioned the losse of some days sailing to the … were obliged to quit and burned. I have vissited all the Islands, which are verry healthy, but the number of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… very necessary for the safety of Jamaica and the Leeward Islands that six additional Companies raised for those Islands, or the like number of men, be forthwith dispatched … wee hope it will prove satisfactory to you from your Reall Friends and Well-wishers. Signed, David Lloyd, Speaker. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… was runn away with their ship, sent letters to all the Islands in the West Indies, where they hoped to meet him, … advice I give him is to get himself close shaved and make friends with the Governors of H.M. hospital of Bedlam to get … my own tobacco when it comes home, and if you or any of my friends will trust me with theirs, etc. 'Tis expected we …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… own choosing in all the posts and places of trust in these Islands, both civil and military, and count a commission from … the known antient customes and practice of these Islands from the first settlement thereof, what can all this … time being to be Custos Rotulorum under H.E. for the whole Islands, but my pretensions to them was only to become their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… throughout all H.M. dominions in America, or only in the Islands, which are commonly called the West Indies. [ C.O. … Trade and Plantations. A general Assembly of the Leeward Islands was held in June last at Nevis by Col. Johnson, when … and administration of Justice throughout the Leeward Islands, have appointed 3 deputies to come to England to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to summon General Assemblys within every of the respective Islands under his Government, the elected members to take the … think fit, who shall at any time pass into any of the said Islands, or shall be resident or abiding there; to build … for making and executing several severe Laws against their friends only for their conscientious dissent from the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… stores shipt on two transport ships for the use of both Islands, this particular being what the people there want …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of permitting them to return so speedily to the French Islands after they have once had the opportunity of … the Queen has; I have invited all from the little Islands to leeward and have got severall and hope to gett …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to queries concerning the present state of the Bahama Islands. Inhabitants about 600 (300 freemen), dwelling upon … duty to give your Lopps. an acctt. of the state of these Islands. The people haveing made good cropps began to be in … they must be tryed by jurys, who will always clear their friends, even of murther. There is no such thing as Escheats, …