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March 6.
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250. Warrant for payment of 2,818l. 6s. to Col. Wm. Legg, Lieutenant
of the Ordnance, for provisions of arms for Jamaica. [Dom.
Docquet.]
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March 6.
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251. Warrant for payment of 1,000l. to the Earl of Marlborough,
as his Majesty's free gift towards his personal provisions for his
intended journey to the [West] Indies. [Dom. Docquet, Cal., p. 300.]
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March 7.
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252. The King to Lord Windsor, Governor of Jamaica. Recommends
John Man, appointed by patent of Jan. 1660-1 Chief Surveyor
of Jamaica, and who has petitioned for the office of Registrar
and Keeper of the Records of the Survey of that island, to his Lordship
for that place, or else to certify what he conceives fit to be done
therein. 3 pp. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. XIII., p. 80.].
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March 10.
Aboard the
Diamond,
Jamaica.
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253. Captain Whiting to the Officers of his Majesty's Navy. Seized
a Dutch vessel of 300 or 400 tons and 26 guns on 2nd Feb., freighted
with negroes, and trading with the island ; but after 24 hours the
Governor dispossessed him, took out the negroes and money, and sent
her away. Before her seizure 48 negroes had been sold. The ship
was named the Maerten Van Roffen, Capt. Leonard Johnson, belonging
to Dutch merchants of Middleburgh, and had not one Englishman
in her. 1 p. Two copies. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., Nos. 30, 31.]
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March 11.
Aboard the
Diamond,
Jamaica.
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254. Thos. Cowley, purser, to the Officers of his Majesty's Navy.
Their provisions are nearly expired, though the General has sent
away the Rose Bush in order that the stores may last until Lord
Windsor's coming ; but they will not hold out unless his arrival be
speedy. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 32.]
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March 11.
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255. Warrant by the commissioners of Ferdinando Gorges to the
Marshal of the Province of Maine or his deputy. To seize all records
of a public nature as concerning any act done within this province,
being the interest and joint right of the Lord Proprietor and the
freeholders of this Province, which are surreptitiously kept away from
their common officers, by which means justice and equity cannot
be administered, whether in the hands of Edward Rishworth, Mr.
Michael, Godfrey, or the executors of Roger Gard, George Cleves,
Rich. Tucker, Francis Neale, or any others, to be delivered sealed up
to Capt. Francis Champernoune, and opened and examined at the
next General Court. Signed by Fran. Champernoune, Hen. Jocelyn,
Robt. Jordan, and Nich. Shapleigh. Copy certified by Francis Neale,
Secretary. Also on same sheet,
Return of the Marshal, Nathaniel Mastersonn, that he has
seized on all the records and writings in Rishworth's hands,
and delivered them to Champernoune, 21st March 1662. Also
all the records and writings that he can hear of he has received
and delivered to Francis Champernoune, 15th May 1662.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 33.]
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March 11.
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256. Another copy of the preceding warrant. 2 pp. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XVI., No. 34.]
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March 13.
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257. Petition of John Powell [to the King] for 1,000 acres in
Jamaica, which he would stock and defend with good arms and able
men. With reference to Lord Windsor, Governor of Jamaica. p.
[Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. XIII., p, 76.]
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March 20.
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258. Warrant for a grant to Jane West, daughter of the Dowager
Lady De la Warr, of a pension of 200l. a year, in consideration of her
mother's loss by discontinuance for 11 years of a pension of 500l. a
year, granted her for her late husband's services in improving the
Plantation of Virginia. [Dom. Entry Bk., Vol. V., p. 219.]
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March 21.
Whitehall.
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259. Instructions to Thomas Lord Windsor, Governor of Jamaica.
To publish his commission as soon as he lands ; constitute the Council ;
and administer the oaths. To settle judicatories for council
affairs and for the Admiralty. To commission under the public seal
of the island judges, justices, sheriffs, and other officers with fit
salaries. Power to pass grants of the little islands adjacent to
Jamaica, as Salt Island, Good Island, Pigeon Island, and others, and
to raise forts there. To grant commissions and erect Courts of
Admiralty. To promulgate the King's license for transporting
planters from the neighbouring plantations to Jamaica, with liberty
to trade with the Spanish plantations, for the benefit of Jamaica.
To order an exact survey of all harbours and landing places, and
erect necessary fortifications, and "as well for the bearing of such
like expenses as for a mark of our sovereignty in and over the said
islands" to set out 400,000 acres for a Royal demesne, 100,000 acres
in each quarter of the island, to be preserved and improved to the
best advantage for the use of the King and his successors ; also to
order a survey of the whole island, and a register of the plantations
to be sent home as soon as possible. All planters and Christian
servants to be provided with arms, mustered and trained, with power
in case of insurrection or invasion to proclaim martial law. Power
to grant lands and ratify former grants to the planters and their
heirs for ever in free and common soccage, with reservation of fit
rents to the King ; and to grant to himself and his heirs for ever
lands not already granted to the extent of 50,000 acres. To take
care that drunkenness and debauchery be discountenanced and
punished, and none admitted to public trust or employment whose
ill conversation may bring scandal thereupon, and to give the best
encouragement to orthodox ministers. To encourage trade and
suppress the engrossing of commodities. All goods exported to be
free for seven years, and afterwards a duty of five per cent. to be
paid. To appoint markets and fairs and take care that the wild
cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep be preserved, licensing or prohibiting
the hunters as he thinks fit. To direct the improvement of the
cocoa walks, and repair of the houses in St. Jago ; whatever is
granted by the Governor and Council under the seal of the island
to be approved and held good and lawful. Power to search ships
suspected to trade with the Spaniards, or to carry planters ammunition
or other commodities to Spanish territory, and adjudicate on
same in the Admiralty Court. To lodge a Royal Order to Governor
Lord Willoughby, of Barbadoes, to be assistant to him, in case of
any considerable attempt by the Spaniards against Jamaica. To
contrive that the plantations be near together and the sea coast first
planted, the better to prevent invasion. For the better encouragement
of intending planters no one is to enjoy more than one office
at a time, or to execute same by deputy ; and all officers, both civil
and military, on misbehaviour to be suspended and discharged. To
send accounts of increase of planters, the defects and wants of the
place, its chief products and improvements, and the advantages to
be obtained by trade. Power to constitute corporations and grant
manors and royalties, provided no manor or lordship contain less
than 500 acres. To call Assemblies, make laws, and levy moneys,
such laws to be only in force for two years, unless confirmed by the
King. Power to ratify to every person the number of acres he is
lawfully possessed of, to him, his heirs and assigns for ever ; and
to grant 30 acres for every servant transported thither, and at the
end of his service of four years 30 acres to said servant. Power to
act for the advantage and improvement of the island in all things
not particularised in these instructions. 20 pp. [Col. Entry Bk.,
No. 92, pp. 37-56, and No. 27, pp. 13-19.]
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March 21.
Whitehall.
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260. Two copies of the preceding instructions to Lord Windsor.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., Nos. 35, 36.]
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March 21.
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261. Jonas Shish and Edm. Rayner to the Navy Commissioners.
Send an estimate of provisions to be made for Jamaica ; total value
320l. Items, two shallops ; four yawls ; planks, pitch, tar, nails, and
other necessaries for building and finishing three boats ; pitch-tar
for stores and other uses ; tallow for stores ; six shipwrights for the
boats at 40s. per man a month ; and iron-bound casks. [Dom.,
Chas. II., Vol. LII., No. 97, Cal., p. 316.]
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March 23.
Virginia.
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262. One hundred and thirty-eight Acts passed at a Grand
Assembly held at James City, Virginia, 23rd March, 12 Chas. II., and
from thence continued by prorogation to 23rd March 1661-2. With
marginal notes in red ink to those Acts repealed, obsolete, needless,
useless or expired. N.B.The titles only of such of these Acts as
were afterwards repealed or had expired are printed in editions of
the Acts of Assembly of Virginia, viz. : London 1727 ; Williamsburg
1733 ; and Williamsburg 1752, see Col. Entry Bks., Nos. 89, 90, 91.
[Col. Entry Bk., No. 88, pp. 1-48.]
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1661-2?
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263. Col. Thos. Lynch to Williamson. Will deliver his lord's
letter to Mr. Moddiford, if sent to his lodgings, the Hourglass by the
Pump, Bishopsgate St. p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 37.]
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1662.
March 24.
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264. Mem. of two letters from the King to the Duke of York.
To make provision for transporting forty planters carried by Lord
Windsor, twenty by [? from] Mr. Lyttelton, and twenty by the Lord
Chancellor to Jamaica, with five ministers and 15 persons in their
families. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. III., pp. 32, 102.]
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March.
Whitehall.
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265. The King to the Governor of Barbadoes. By Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of England bearing date 2nd Aug. 1660,
Francis Cradock was granted the office of Provost-Marshal-General
of Barbadoes with all fees and emoluments incident thereto, yet
these have been disposed of to others, to his great disadvantage.
It is ordered that he be restored to his office, and receive all the
fees belonging thereto ; and having been empowered by commission
to erect banks in Barbadoes, the Governor is required to give
Cradock every assistance in settling the same. 1 pp. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XVI., No. 38.]
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March.
[Whitehall.]
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266. The King to [the Deputy-Governor of Barbadoes]. Has
sent to Barbadoes Francis Cradock, heretofore made Provost-Marshal-General
thereof under the Great Seal of England, empowering him
and others to erect a bank or banks there for trade, which wise
and ingenious persons conceive will be practicable, and of great
accommodation to the people of the island, wherefore as much assistance
as may be is to be given him, that the experiment may be forthwith
made, divers sums of money remaining unaccounted for in
the hands of such who during the late troubles had the "manigary"
of prize goods and other public receipts. Cradock is also empowered
to examine the same and send an account of the true state thereof to
the King as speedily as may be. Rights and fees belonging to Cradock
as Provost-Marshal-General, having been taken away, and one Povey
put in by Cromwell permitted for 13 months to enjoy the same, the
Deputy-Governor is required to see that the King's Patent to
Cradock be duly obeyed, and allowance made for his damages sustained.
2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XVI., No. 39.]
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March?
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267. "A short discours of the late forren acquests which England
holds, viz., of Dunkirk in Flanders, Tangier in Barbary, Boonbay in
the East Indies, Jamayca in the West Indies, demonstrating by
cleere politicall reasons how much they may conduce to the honor,
security, and advantage of this nation. In answer to some pamplets
which have bin obtruded to the world both at home and abroad to
the contrary," by J. B. [John Brydall?]. The island of Jamaica
speaks for itself by those gainful returns that have been already,
and it is like to prove a most hopeful plantation, otherwise so many
judicious persons would not have removed thither to better their
fortunes from the Barbadoes and other the Caribbee Islands, New
England, Virginia, and other places. Also, as a political consideration,
Jamaica being so near the Gulf of Mexico, stands very advantageous,
in case matters should not go well 'twixt us and Spain, to
do her a displeasure and ourselves good by meeting her plate-fleet
as they come from the Havanna. [Dom., Chas. II., Vol. LII., No.
145, Cal., p. 327.]
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