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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… gain credit with you, we have thought it our bounden duty to God, your Majesty, and ourselves, to inform you that … in matters relating to the Crown. 4. They impose duties on goods imported from England which have already paid the … will allow him maintenance. I keep two warders with him, one to lie in his chamber and one never to be out of his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… find ways to avoid the payment of the rent of a penny per acre. We grant land by indenture on purpose that people, … but in vain; we now recommend the same thing to yourself. One or two villages would suffice to show the convenience of … will be protected by the law. Though they may forget their duty we shall not forget ours. You will enquire if any …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in prosecuting the commutation of the four and a half per cent. duty, and 500 l. to Henry Walrond to defray his … of their females, when let out for a term of yeares, no one will part with them. These are the positive words of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Lords of Trade and Plantations. We met at Boston on 25 May, when Joseph Dudley, having been first sworn … the oaths to fourteen members of the Council. Our first duty was to issue a proclamation continuing all constables … you request. This letter will be presented by Mr. Mason, one of our number. Signed, Joseph Dudley, William Stoughton, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Belchamber, the Commissioners of the four and a half per cent. duty at Nevis, tell us that they had advice of a Dutch … to the owners or any properly qualified person. If no one appears to claim her you will preserve her as best you …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… not been dealt with as they ought, and the covetousness of one has been the ruin of many. But the King suffers most, … The Assembly's reasons for refusing a duty of two per cent. on all plate brought from the wreck. The Assembly's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… destined for the West Indies. The report was presented on the 6th June, and it was ordered that all diligence be … Ambassadors to the King. I learn that George Needham, one of the judges concerned in the unjust seizure of the ship … Small, my carpenter, who had absented himself from his duty and joined the rebels some days before. Some hours after …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… help from the neighbouring Colonies, Leisler sent up one Jacob Milborne, formerly servant to a man in Hartford, … respecting the commutation of the four and a half per cent. duty. The Assembly sent in the names of members to form …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… bring you the trade that we once could; we plant now on the Christians' land at the Half Moon, and pay for the use … making an angle. It is well built of stone on one side, and has on the other a ditch, breast-work and … and the heads of the rivers, see that the rangers do their duty, and exercise and look to the better equipment of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 72 shirts, 100 loaves of bread, 50 gallons of rum, one ox, two barrels of beer. Answer of the Five Nations. A … Assembly of Maryland. Order for the proceeds of the 14 d. per ton duty to be put in bank till the King's pleasure be … of public credit, and making them current at five per cent. advance, read. July 2. The aforesaid bill was passed. …