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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fired three guns apiece, but the rest mistaking it for the signal of a council of war crowded in, and there … and Captain Joseph Crispe chosen to go to Europe as hostage, and promote the amity concluded between the two … subjects in the English part of this island. The French hostage having been at the Governor's house at the desire of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… small appeared betwixt Mounsaratt and Antegoa, standing for this Island, whereof 12 were men of war, from 30 to 70 … to make appeare. The first breach was of the 5th article; for the verry next day they burnt not only severall boyleing … haveing the liberty to goe abroad to get sustenance for themselves and familys, little or none being allowed them …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Wm. Burras, of the parish of Vere, minor (2) a Bill for regulating fees (3) a Bill for fitting out 2 sloops for guarding the coast (4) An Act for declaring what persons …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the honour to write your Lordships in my last, I have been for a good part of last spring employed in finishing the … and have made choice of about 70 boys and girls who for their years are the most susceptible of learning, to be … inclination as well as capacity renders him very fitt for this imployment, there is all humane probability of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… glad to know if my letters last year, came to hand, for I have not yet received any direction from White Hall … much wanted in some cases. Some laws have been passed here for the support of Government, whereing duties that have been formerly laid, were either renew'd or continued for a longer time, and this rule has been observed, that our …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1. Whitehall. 211. Mr. Popple to Jeremiah Dummer. Asks for papers relating to H.M.S. Squirrel in Nova Scotia. v 1st … on his departure etc., you are to prepare the draughts for his Commission and Instructions forthwith for the … French in 1706 and has been ever since kept there as an hostage for the pretended ransom. And 200 mentioned for Mr. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… observ'd the several good laws and statutes now in force for the regulating of Trade and Navigation; particularly the … An Act passed in the 9th and 10th year of K. William III, for settling the trade to the East Indies. ii. An Act passed in the 11th and 12th year of K. William III, for the more effectual suppression of piracy. iii. An Act …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to your Lordships' Board, I never was faulted for any remissness or impertinence in my correspondence, but … of my stewardship; but I beg that may not be imputed to me for a crime, which happens to be ye unhappiest circumstance … in the principles of ye Christian Religion; besides the 11 hostage children, wch. then came 400 miles to be kept at the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Geo. Donne, Lieut. Hay and five or six others, hostages for the ships lent by Don Frederico de Toledo for transportation of the planters upon the islands belonging … March? 65. Directions to Mons. Bonnavolia [? Belavene] for a voyage to, and settling a plantation under 35th degree …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Pulleine's letter and enclosed affidavits (Jan. 9th) for his opinion and that of other civil lawyers thereupon in … the Council of Trade and Plantations. Encloses following for their report. Signed, Wm. Lowndes. Endorsed, Recd. 10th, … humbly are of opinion, that in case the Lords Commissrs. for Trade, think those informations to bee true, that then …