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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in several parts, and increase his trade and navy at a strange rate, is rich, and values not wronging his … a nursery for seamen. Knowing that country may be kept at little charge, so it may be kept, if taken, from us, … Act to prevent the abuse of lawyers, and multiplicity in law suits; Oct. 21 (5), for trying all petty larcenies at the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… their condition to the King and Council, who abrogated the law and left the trade open, since which the African Company … the planters do not know of the arrival of all ships at Port Royal, they cannot pretend any prejudice, for their … of the market. Many of the ships trading for Jamaica sail at above 200 l. charge per mensem, and generally one half of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… interest the son must look for his own; viz.:That the law have free and open course; That no industrious man be … be brought into fashion among the young gentry, as riding at the ring, tilting on horseback, shooting at marks with guns and bows, running, wrestling, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… any fort, without having entered and given security as the law requires, by which illegal practices the King is cheated … Customs come on board, and discharged several muskets at them in their boat to the hazard of their life and the … and change by force of arms, arrived on day of [1676], at the town of, in county of, their wicked designs to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and, if not under the Massachusetts, under no government at all upon the place, and so neither in a way of being … of several of the Bostoners in refusing to come over at the King's bidding. Prays that the Province may be … Edward, to sell and dispose of a certain plantation at Willoughby Bay for the better paying and discharging of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… payment of Sugar for money contracts out of this Island, at fifteen shillings per cent. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. LVIII., … but also attack the French. Those that are masters at sea may on accasion collect a good body of men from the … and twenty-four others of the town. Endorsed, Not allowed at the Committee. [ Col. Papers. Vol. XLVI., No. 77.] 1634. A …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… years next following the sum of 500 l. per annum, and at the end thereof 1,000 l. per annum for ever. Not a penny … entered the North Pacific after nine days, and arrived at Barbados, where, finding an English man-of-war, they … called Captain Sharp and Gilbert Dike. Deponent left them at Plymouth; last heard that they went to buy a ship to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 140.] [1684.] 2037. Proposals of Captain Jeaffreson. That at least one hundred malefactors should be sent to the West Indies to work as pioneers at the fortifications, and be allowed to work for the … for the reward of their board and lodging. The King to be at no further expense for them after their landing, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… was given for the alteration, except that it was made at the request of the Scots and other considerable persons. … deputies of the proprietors and twenty commoners, met at Charlestown, and twelve of the commoners refused to … nothing was done, and there is at present not a statute law in force in the Colony. On the dissolution of Parliament, …