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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… other in the best manner either for annoying the enemy or for mutual defence. Copy. 2 pp. Endorsed, Recd. 24 Feb., … war-time, but all is miserably in debt and at least four or five thousand pounds behindhand. I shall therefore … ruin this Island, where we have more land than we can or could manage and secure, were there twenty thousand more …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… any Scotchmen from sitting in any Court of Judicature or being one of the Treasury in any of the Plantations; but … Attorney-General? I will not say that Mr. Blair contrived or advised Mr. Harrison's voyage to Scotland, but I must … 1694, ordered Sir Edmund Andros to hire a small vessel or two to cruise on the coast for prevention of such trade; …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… rioting and meeting at unreasonable times in his house or possessions etc. ; an act to prevent any person from makeing, haveing or keeping any nett exceeding the length of 3 fathoms in his house or other place whatsoever, and to prevent hauling fish by any …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… de Baas relating to meliorations, pejorations, forgeries, or differences about contracts, wherein the Commissioners … months sitting the Commissioners rose and concluded little or nothing. But as his Majesty has given no countenance to … called the Michael of Galway, whose master would not haul in within reach of the small shot. The 27th they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be sent to the Commander of H.M. man-of-war at present in or near the Streights with instructions to join with the … put the order in his pocket and refused to have it read or to communicate the matter to the Council, but upon my … about, but he having no braces, bowlines nor sheets to haul his sails about, and we playing small shot and partrige …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Treaty of Seville for their suggestions for additions or alterations. Continues:You will observe that by these … pleased to dispatch them, as soon as conveniently you can, or transmit them to me to be laid before the King, that if … and occasions of such seizures on both sides, and demand or give satisfaction for the loss sustained. (iii) Whereas by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… you to give notice to the inhabitants of Georgia to bring or send their letters to you once a fortnight to be forwarded … now repeat that Mr. Causton and everyone else should bring or send their letters to you to be put up together in one packet or box to be sealed with your seal and forwarded regularly to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have sixty men sick. By the surgeon's report we throw one or two bodies overboard every day, though our Admiral is very … our want of a naval force. We have not lost a ship inward or outward besides the two first that were taken; and though … was a boat coming alongside. I warned them to stand off or I would fire, whereupon they dropped astern and robbed us …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the gentlemen of New England engaged to furnish it at 4 s. or 5 s. a barrel, but their barrel is of six to eight … price. (3) One voyage to New England costs as much as four or five to the Baltic, and the difference would be still … be examined and that the amount justly due to him be paid, or that, if this order be not complied with, the fact shall …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and improvements, until they were constraind by an Act or order from the Council and Assembly to abandon their … people, they will be contented to pay a growing chief, or quit rent, which may increase one penny sterl. per acre every five or 7 years, until it comes to sixpence, or as high as may be …
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