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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… My answer to this is on page 14; and I have reprieved the man till the King's pleasure is signified to me. He is said … help. We went home and made great preparations, but not a man came from him. The failure of the design, therefore, is … drew nearer we again appealed to him, but there came not a man. We were then obliged to desert our castles, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… vast discredit, owing to former mismanagement, that no man will enlist. Since it is not our fault that the companies … their joy by saying that they hope never to see a man-of-war here again, to disturb their trade, as they call … prove to you later, when my health is better, that no man of quality who is honest can live on the profits of this …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the whole Government is reduced into an ``anarchy, every man doing what seemeth good ``in his own eyes; and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that they must look out for a ship, and that the first man who saw her should have a piece-of-eight. We met with the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Hunter, confined to his ship riding at anchor in Six Man's Bay, admitted to bail. [ Board of Trade. Barbados, 65. … Popple. I am informed that Mr. Toplady is a very infamous man, newly come out of gaol. Several gentlemen who have lived … made by Col. Allen or his son Usher, was Joseph Smith, a man of no visible estate but two acres of land, and all his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… out to sea they spied a sail, which proved to be a man-of-war, and they chased her into Virginia, having killed … too great a love for money, which is not beautiful in any man, but worse becoming a Judge. Take no more than your dues … have done, in being wronged and abused as I am, no mortal man was ever served at the rate as I be, and all is because I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they planted tobacco, ginger and cotton, and then any man that had instruments for digging and clearing the ground, … is grown a proverb with the English merchants that, if a man goes over never so honest to the Plantations, yet the … in peace and war, we having nigh 20 blacks to a white man. Endorsed, Recd. Read Sept. 16, 1700. 1 p. [ Board of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… his past administration behaved himself as became a good man. This is not onely the desire of by far the major part of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… men, fish, butter or oyle, and a piece of pork for every man on Sunday. (7) They keep a guard-boat in every harbour …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… together with a list of the Militia, a list of every fifth man, lately returned by H.E.'s Order, and an account of arms … the fourth Act of Assembly, 1684, it is provided that no man's arms or ammunition be impressed from him, by which …