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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fourscore ears of corne, there is an omission of a line or two which makes that clause nonsense. (3) By an Act for trying any debt or difference not exceeding 20 s. by the J.P., the Justice is … there's no rule to determine when the debt is satisfied, or by what means the party shall again obtaine his liberty. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the West Indies will not be able to carry on their trade, or even to subsist (especially in time of war) without the … the Winchelsea for Oporto. The store-ships arrived a day or two before I sailed, and is arrived safe at Falmouth, Nov. … but what quantity they get I know not, but what they have or bought by the New Englandmen. (21). The inhabitants have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… at discretion, and the French carried to Martinique five or six hundred prisoners. They have demolished the fort, … require, and be mentioned in a general letter to Virginia or otherwise as may seem most expedient. "The petitions are … the Assemblymen, and the laying of customs upon imports or exports to be left out, "the consideration being now …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… pleased God to visit us with the disease called pressing or bloody flux. It seems that it has increased with the … of the Algerines, as those which go directly from hence or Ireland. The Dey insists that ships trading from one Plantation of His Majesty to another or from any of them to other parts, where they may be met …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… us under our Royal sign manuall, our Order in Councill, or from our High Admirall. [ C.O. 5, 1360. pp. 358360.] Jan. … ought to be communicated to them before their hearing or no, that upon Mr. Attorney's answer to that question, they … body of all the Laws of that Province now in force or no. Their Lordships taking into consideration the several …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and security against an enemy either in building forts or in providing their inhabitants with sufficient arms and … itself, without any consideration had of their neighbours, or of the general preservation of the whole. Upon this … fort at Pemaquid, contribute towards that at Piscataqua, or to settle any fixed salary upon your Majesty's Governour …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the natives of any of our Colonies under your Government, or the countrys thereunto adjoining to quit the enemy's … Councillors did neither discover any dissatisfaction or absent themselves from the Councill untill I had expressed … of this Island, as to question whether H.M. were rightfull or lawfull Queen, and repeated these and the like words with …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a duty on the re-exportation of negroes, that have been, or shall be brought into Our said Island only for … more especially in such cases where Our Royal Prerogative or the Trade of Great Britain may be any ways affected, which … there being no Acts of Parliament forbidding that trade, or inflicting penaltys for such, all I can doe is to vex …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… are but very few in Commission of any sort of character or distinction and by the badness of their arms (a great many … I can't help thinking it has hardly been look't into or thought off these many years, but as I intend very soon to … as set forth in the Preamble of it is, that by an Act made or passed in the 13th year of his late Majesty King George …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and prevent them from being debauched by French kindness or menaces. I send you Colonel Romer's report on the frontier … Governors are prevented from rewarding good service in war or peace by grants of land to engage them to settle thereon. … consent to it. This is all that is left for the pleasure or convenience of the Governor. This is a great dishonour to …