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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lordships would send me an order for an Appeal to boston, or set that tryall aside, and have a new tryall; the Judges … twice, but in vaine, they cleering them without wittness or reason, etc. Inclosed is a copie of an Act which I layd … pp. 17. iii. Act for the better preservation of Mast trees or White pine trees in New Hampshire. Same endorsement. Copy. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… devolve to the Crown without any diminution, concealment, or embezzlement of all criminals impeached, convicted, … and Terminer, both at the trial and condemnation of seven or eight of the most notorious criminals, and openly advised … pretence enough to frustrate and stifle this proclamation or suspend the punishment of it, so long as Lawrence, a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of this Court, that the Court might sit at Cambridge or elsewhere, as H.E. should think fit, they being fearful to … either to put it upon the present owners to repair it, or upon their submission of it, to dispose it to a new … Court in laying of such toll and dutys on vessels lying to or within the same as may support the charge thereof. [ C.O. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… way home, and that on his arrival he would either be heard or ordered to furnish in writing a report as to the matter. … to the Church of England, I must say that I never knew or believed it of him and thought him unfit for any such … experience in military affairs, and without conduct or activity to serve the King and country. I therefore …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… this design, 8 Members of the Assembly, accomptants or friends of his, agreed to absent themselves from the … the business of the House was for the Queen's service or the good of the publick, but when they thought otherwise … became themselves the principall witnesses, and gott two or three more to joyne with them, who are fled from justice …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and with an armed force of soldiers, without any title or colour of process of law entered upon the freehold of … Justice of the Common Pleas, that there was never a law or statute of said Island in force, that was worth a … which was well known to be allways sway'd by corruption or resentment, and that by these methods having drawn all …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… lat., commonly known by the name of the Bahama Islands, or the Islands of the Lucayos."Constituting them absolute … all the gold and silver ore found, and also as often as he or they shall enter said islands one pound of fine silver. … those of England, transport people thither from England, or his Majesty's islands and colonies, and export goods from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… pressures which any of our loving subjects have suffered or do suffer, and especially all causes which have occasioned … also to inquire by examination of witnesses upon oath or by other ways into all grievances and pressures aforesaid … occasioned the late rebellion and to report their opinion or any two of them touching the premises, to the end we may …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Hodgskings. There is no account to be found of the imports or exports of ships and their cargoes, but Captain … first that of the Revenue, without tacking the laws to it or appointing annual Assemblies, which I suppose will be to … pay four pounds of sugar a day for their maintenance, or if taken to their owners the charge to be six shillings a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… commanded for England, there to defend my administration, or whatever may be objected against me, or that such positive orders may be sent, to permit me to go … his Lordship being at present in a station above the law, or any other means for me to procure satisfaction from him. …