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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Mr. West to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Report on Acts passed in Barbados in 1717 and 1718. Enumerates 18 to … to be incouraged or not. (ii) An Act to dock the intail on certain plantations in the parish of St. Thomas and St. … from thence great quantities of contraband goods, such as brandy and French wines, and in a publick store in St. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… are from the River St. Croy, to the passage of Cansoe. And on the side of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and bay Vert (as the … that the forces therein mentioned have been actually sent on the services and expedition therein specifyed etc., as … 22, encloses Acts of St. Christophers, ( a) for raising an impost on liquors imported, ( b) for laying a tax on vintners …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 152, 14. f 410.] Aug. 1. 306. Deposition of John Burnet. On 28th July he gave notice to Jeremiah Browne that he … above witnesses before John Greatheed at Sandy Point on 31st July etc. They were not sworn till 5 or 6 of the … and gave them in presents a belt of wampum, a cag of brandy, and some tobacco. That after a long debate one of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for supplying the people at Frederica who want servants on their giving bond for 8 l., the expense of each head to be … first arrived, the Trustees, without you can furnish them on enquiring into the case with further reasons than the … it should be general, whether they should find it rum, brandy or any spirituous liquor, if they believed it to be a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to prepare for him a gold chain and medal. Ordered, on reading the Report of the Lords Committee of Plantations, … to the King, but he could not prevail, and for insisting on the matter some of the magistrates had exasperated several … were sent over to the island with runlets of rum and brandy to entice them to drink to excess, and then they must …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… familiar talk that they would rather knock their cattle on the heads than sell them to Maryland." Suspects the … New England, before obtaining licence, and the prohibitive impost upon many articles of necessity there. Pray that they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Petition of officers and mariners late of H.M.S. Diamond. On February 21st, petitioners seized a Flemish ship in … merchants upon their arrival, with the appointment of the impost of powder and tunnage. 1st July 1663. " 35. An … Act to the Act of Highways. No. 36. An Act for settling an impost on the commodities of the growth of this island. 12th …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of his Majesty's Plantations in the West Indies, were put on board the Anne of London, Thos. May, master, who set them … pp 55-81.] 1664. Nevis. 883. An Act for settling an impost (4 per cent,) on the commodities of the growth of this … King's particular account : Ammunition account ; Ale-house impost ; Escheats belonging to the King ; Fifteenths of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… York with sugar, tobacco, and furs was this day cast away on S. Francis Island, the men saved, but the ship and goods … sugar, and Brazil wood upon a sandbank 10 miles away. On Friday night the Exchange of Boston, New England, was … chest, and, to encourage the soldiers, two tuns of brandy. Indorsed, Colonel Cartwright's proposal for goods to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… meaning of the Treaty being that the most Christian King on his part do forthwith order his subjects to quit all the … part entirely to the English, and that his Majesty, on the other side, do not suffer the English to lay claim to … Act for new granting, settling, and confirming the duty, impost, or custom of 4 per cent. of the growth of this …