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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… themselves in danger of their lives at the hands of Read Elding, the Deputy-Governor (685, 685.iii., 1042.ix. See … crisis came when the Courts were about to sit. For Read Elding, Ellis Lightwood, and other ringleaders in the … of visiting the Governor in order to clear himself, Read Elding led an armed rabble to the Governor's house, seized it …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… such piratical rogues as Trott and his disciples Webb and Elding, who were backed by a Council largely composed of old … Spaniards, who were willing to protect them. Meantime Read Elding, who held his Governorship by irregular procedure on …
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