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| April 11. |
799. Certificate from the Remembrance Office that security
for £2000 has been given on behalf of Charles Craven (v. Feb. 22).
Signed, Fra. Butler. Endorsed, Recd. 11th, Read 13th April,
1711. ¼ p. [C.O. 5, 1264. No. 114; and 5, 1292. p. 272.] |
April 11.
St. James's. |
800. H.M. Warrant for affixing the Great Seal to Governor
Douglas' Commission (v. April 1st). 1 p. Enclosed, |
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800. i. Duplicate of No. 770 i. [C.O. 152, 42. Nos. 58, 60.] |
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801. Capt. Walton to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Upon considering the objections (to the settlement of the Virgin
Islands), which Mr. Popple acquainted him was made to your
Lordshipps, he humbly conceiv's they can have no weight. For
how inconsistant is it to beleive that the inhabitants of the Leeward Islands shou'd quit the settlements they have made, to go
and make others amongst the Virgins. And as for any that have
represented them as useless rocks, recourse to the draught before
your Lordships will evince the contrary. Another no less efficatious then the foregoing says that they wou'd be a harbour in
time of peace for the buckaniers; he always, (with submission)
conceived that it was for want of a Goverment's being settled,
that they have hitherto used them. And the last plainly demonstrates, that they know nothing of the present circumstances of
those Islands, for as to the Spaniards, there hath not one appeared
for these many years last past, besides Spanish Town (as it now
is) need not fear all the power they have in those parts, and might
easily be made almost impregnable, the rest might be supported
under it. Upon the whole, he hopes it will appear that what he
hath offered must be a support and defence to the Leeward
Islands, rather then any subduction from them. For the people
drawn thither will not be them that are settled on the Leeward
Islands, but (if any come thence) it must be those that are a
weight and charge to them, therefore if any from a suppossistion
that their private property may be impeded by a cultivation and
improving of the Virgins, he may fully depend your Lordships
will not encourage what shall not only obstruct the enlargement
of trade, but be a prevention even to piracy and clandestine trade.
Prays, in consideration of his expences, services and knowledge
in those parts (besides loossing a company of Foot by serving
there, upon the Generall's assurance that he shou'd have the same
sallary as the other Lieut. Governors had), that he shall have your
Honours' recommendation for the Government, or for having a
pattent constituting him Proprietor for 30 years renewable at an
easy quitt-rent; either of which ways those Islands might be
made in a few years, as advantagious to the Crown as the Leeward
Islands are now. Endorsed, Recd. 12th, Read 13th April, 1711.
1¼ pp. [C.O. 152, 9. No. 60.] |
April 12.
Whitehall. |
802. Lord Dartmouth to Governor Douglas. H.M. commands me to acquaint you that it is absolutely necessary for her
service you should go to your Government as soon as possible;
when I have told you this and that your powers and instructions
are already finished, I am sure I need not add any other motives
to incline you to use all imaginable diligence in transporting
yourself thither. Signed, Dartmouth. [C.O. 324, 32. p. 70.] |
April 13.
Whitehal. |
803. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. We
having receiv'd a certificate that the Lord Craven hath enter'd
into a bond for Charles Craven's due observance of the Acts
of Trade, (v. Ap. 11), we humbly lay before your Majesty the
draught of Instructions for your Majesty's Royal signature to
the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, relating to the said Acts, being
to the like effect as those that have been usually given to them
and to all other Proprietors of Plantations on the like occasion.
Annexed, |
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803. i. Instructions to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina relating
to the Laws of Trade and Navigation. St. James's,
March 10, 1710/11. [C.O. 5, 1292. pp. 273–307.] |
April 13.
Whitehall. |
804. Council of Trade and Plantations to Lt. Governor
Spotswood. Enclose Orders in Council of March 24 and April 17,
1707, relating to seating and planting of lands, with reasons for
repeal of Act 1666, etc. (v. Feb. 22). [C.O. 5, 1363. pp. 270–273;
and (rough draft) 5, 1335. pp. 110–114.] |
April 13.
Whitehal. |
805. Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Dartmouth. Refer to letter of April 6th, and forward recommendation
of Mr. Lightfoot (April 7th) to be a member of the Council of
Antegoa. "We have no objection thereto." [C.O. 153, 11.
pp. 282, 283.] |
April 13.
St. James's. |
806. H.M. Additional Instructions to Governor Douglas,
relating to the trial of those concerned in the late rebellion at
Antegoa, as ordered No. 795, q.v. Signed, A.R. Endorsed,
Recd. 14th, Read 15th May, 1711. 1¼ pp. [C.O. 152, 9. No.
68; and 153, 11. pp. 310, 311; and 324, 32. pp. 70, 71.] |
April 14.
On board the Defiance, Spithead. |
807. Lord A. Hamilton to [? Lord Dartmouth.] I am
honoured with the Queen's commands signified to me by your
Lop's. letter of the 10th instant, and will upon our arrival at
Jamaica, endeavour to execute them with the care and despatch
that my duty to H.M., the regard I have to your Lordship's
recommendation, and the melancholly circumstances of those
prisoners at Lima do jointly require. Signed, A. Hamilton. 1 p.
[C.O. 137, 51. No. 38.] |
April 14.
Barbadoes. |
808. G. Lillington to Mr. Popple. Acknowledges letter of
Feb. 19. The Assembly some time since pass'd a leavy bill, wch.
being sent up to the Councill they thought fit to make an amendment and lessen the sum on the Town, wch. has not been as yet
laid before the Assembly, they being very backward in makeing an
house, but if they had, I'm afraid would not have agreed thereto,
that house expireing the 18th. I shall issue writts immediately
thereon for calling another, at the opening of wch. I hope and
desire our expected Governor will be present. I am proud that
I have so little to trouble their Ldps. with in relation to this
Governmt., etc. Signed. G. Lillington. Endorsed, Recd. 25,
Read 27 June, 1711. Addressed. 1 p. [C.O. 28, 13. No. 60;
and 29, 12. pp. 352, 353.] |
April 14.
Barbados. |
809. Andrew Boult to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
The greatest Princes have in all ages thought it their glory to be
avengers of blood, when the common courses of the Law have
been insufficient, etc. The successours of Alexander afford many
instances how Crowns have been the reward of such exemplary
justice, and if mankind, were not frighted from such villainies by
an uncommon load of infamy, and the certain resentment of all
mankind, few Princes, and I am afraid much fewer first Ministers
would live out half their dayes but some desperado or giddy
mobb would Felton d' Witt or Parke them for performing the
dutys of their high function which may not be agreeable to their
palate, etc. I have therefore took the liberty to trouble your
Lordship with an account of the murther of my friend General
Parke, etc. To attack and murther their chief magistrate and his
friends, that were with him, and the soldiers that were in her
immediate service, who were actually under her colours, and to
revile him after he was mortally wounded is treatment few but
the Grandfather of their Royal Mistress have among the English
had the misfortune to meet withall.. None ever revered the
memory of that Prince more than Col. Parke, etc. It was his
frequent dissolving their Assemblys on their obstinate resolving
to wrest from H.M. that essential part of her prerogative that
set their blood into such a ferment, that nothing but the letting
out of his could cure. A sort of an Ordinance they have pass'd,
not to have their murther talked of, is in effect making for themselves an act of indemnity and oblivion, But 'tis well they continue
not their strain of balads, and sing the murther they so long
threatned, and which in the dark they so frequently attempted.
And how heroically they used the General when they had mortally
wounded him, broke his back-bone with their musketts, strippt
him and dragged him by the heels about the streets when but
half dead, denying him water, and insulting him in the agonies of
death, exposing the secrets of nature and refusing him buryal.
Nay my Lord, they have gone yet further, they have signed a
paper to justify the action, and owned themselves guilty, and
wou'd kindly have suffered the other Islands to have shared the
glory, on the easy terms of approving their proceedings. But
the eyes of all the Colonys are on their Mother Kingdom, and how
she will punish such an outrage. 'Tis certain, my Lord, the
majority of Antigua have drank so deep of this gentleman's
blood, they will find no person guilty of tasting it, and the most
solemn tryal there will be but eluding justice. And I am not
lawyer enough to know how practicable it may be make a Lord
High Constable, and send for the ring-leaders and try them in
England, on this extraordinary occasion. Your Lordship will
forgive my presumption if I humbly propose what my experience
of the people makes appear to me the most likely way of punishing
them, and frighten the other Colonys from insulting H.M. in
the person of Her Chief Officer. 'Twil be my Lord to punish them
on the side of their pride which is their darling vice, by excluding
them all places of honour and profit in the Government, particular,
by making all that appeared in that riot on the oath of two
witnesses to be forever uncapable of any post civil or military,
or of being members of the Council or Assembly, or officers of the
Militia. And as the name of a Parliamt. is very awful to them,
if a short Act was passed to that purpose with a suitable preamble
it would effectually terrify them and learn them submission. To
which if the General had instructions for some time to reside at St.
Christophers, it would further mortify and punnish them. To
which may be added the changing the Regiment there for another,
the present regiment being unfortunately divided by the faction.
And the Colo. a mortal enemy to the late General, between whom
there ought to be the strictest correspondence and perfect
harmony, which some particular instructions about, might
considerably forward and improve. For nothing at this time
especially less than a power that can put the laws in excecution
will subject them to them. They are by their clime and nature
haughty and whenever their Governours shall displease them
they will not fail to remind them how they have handled their
predecessors, and what they dare do when they shall think themselves opprest. In the Island of St. Christophers, he that basely
murthered Col. Johnson, Commander in Chief before Col. Parke
was cleared by a jury, is since chose a Representative and lives
there in splendour, and your Lordship sees to how much a more
exalted pitch of wickedness they are arrived to in Antigua, and
how indifferently H.M. must be served, if the sword of justice is
so far from being able to punish criminals it cannot defend itself.
Col. Hamilton summoned a General Assembly to meet at Antigua,
but they refused to come, and some plainly return'd as an answer
they would not come to an island where the people would perhaps
murther them if they contradicted or disagreed with their proceedings.
So immediate a remedy seems to be required for these
raging evils. And so great occasion is there for finding out a
Governour whose capacity is equal to the present calamitys, who
has spirit enough to administer whatsoever remedy shall be
applyed to this dangerous distemper, and at the same time who
is acquainted with their constitutions and temper, and knows
where to apply such lenatives as may heal their breaches, recover
their reputation by reconciling 'em to one another, and beget
that reverence in them, which always accompanys virtue in
authority. Yet that alone will not do without the protection of
your Lordships tho I dare prophecy the Islands will never be
happy, nor H.M. well served till a Governour shall want no
patrons at Court, but a perfect integrity, etc. I can't help here
observing that the method of taking depositions against Col.
Parke, as directed by my Lord Sunderland's letter, brought his,
and will bring any Government into contempt. The summoning
and inviting common people to say and swear a hundred idle
storys that lye before your Lordships, many of which seem
calculated only to cause laughter, exposing his authority and
Hers he represented beyond all imagination. And if H.M. own
Order had not been the pretence that impowred them to ridicule
her authority and affront him to his face on the Bench the awe
of him at least under H.M. ensigns, would probably have kept
him sacred. 'Twas these ridiculous storys below the dignity of a
Governour to bear, and against nature to hear, that made him,
desire me to be his Deputy to hear the depositions against him,
and take those for him, which occasioned me to make those
frequent speeches that are among his papers before your Lordships, and at least to draw his defence for him, the depositions
on both sides having gone wholly through my hands, which
laid me under a sort of necessity at least a point of honour
in laying these things before your Lordships. I should have
acted but a mean part to have been frightned by his murther
from putting the last hand to his justification. And I cant but
think myself unhappy that a sickness this fatigue brought on me
forced me off the Island just before this happned. For tho' Col.
Parke was too sanguine, and apt to dispise them, he having left
the managemt. to me, during the taking the depositions, and I
having been so happy as to free him out of several intricacies, he
would probably have took my advice, which would have been,
when they formed a Proclamation and summoned one another to
meet to force him off the Island, and sent a message to him with
their resolution, to have pretended a complyance and seemed to
form a treaty, during the management thereof to have slipt to
Monks Hill or Mountserat, which might have saved his life, and
the lives of those poor innocent souls who on their knees begged
for quarter in vain, and were murthered for standing guard to
their General when they were too few to defend him. I must beg
the liberty to add for myself, that I having formerly paid the
troops there; and laid out about £10,000, which the suddain
disbanding Col. Fox's Regiment, and the destruction of Nevis
St. Christophers made me loke to lose, and being well acquainted
with Col. Parke in England; and he having directions from home
to give me any civil or military vacancy that should happen in his
Government, he gave me a Company in Col. Jones' regiment
Jan. 6, 1709. However, none of the Commissions given by him
have been confirmed, a mortification few other Governours or of
his predecessors have been used to. And if my defence of him
in the answer to his Articles make him appear a good tho' unfortunate Governour and a dutyfull servant to H.M., and that
he lost his life in so uncommon a manner for maintaining the
dignity of his mistris, your Lordships may think it not unworthy
your charecters to appear ye protector of one that suffers on the
same side; altho' I have not the honour of being known to your
Lordships. And if it appears difficult to right me in this perticular, and that the later Commission shall be thought to supercede the first, tho' that is by vertue of a great Seal from H.M.,
yet your Lordships may find out an equivolent. Newfoundland
Carolina, as they are but ordinary Governments, and but indifferently healthy, very few in any degree qualifyed for them
will accept them, and as such infant and unsetled Colonys want
in an especial manner some person of experience and understanding who knows something of manking, the interest of the Plantations, what improvemt. they are capable of by their soil or
scituation, and what relation their whole traffick and produce
has or may have to their Mother Kingdom, and who is not unacquainted with their temper which must be kept easy, since their
tranquility increases the treasure of England, and which restraining them from lycenciousness will soon bring them to, if it
appears by any of the papers before your Lordships that I have
had woful occasion from the differences at Antigua to learn any
of these lessons, as I have been at almost all H.M. Plantations,
I have made what observations I was capable of in Her interest,
so I assure your Lordships I should with a double care endeavour
to desirve Her favour. Desires their Lordships' recommendation
etc. Encloses Some reasons for keeping St. Christophers. Signed,
Recd. 15th, Read 18th June, 1711. 8pp. [C.O. 5, 865. No. 65.] |
April 14.
Boston. |
810. Similar letter to the Lord Dartmouth. Enclosed, |
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810. i. Reasons for insisting on the keeping the whole Island
of St. Christophers on a General Peace. (1) Altho' it
was restored to the French by the Treaty of Reswick,
the warr broke out so soon they had not resetled it. So
that they having of late years made little or no advantage
of it, it is not likely they will insist much on the restitution of it. (2) Brimstone Hill being the only place in
the Leeward Islands capable of being made really
strong without a prodigious expence and a stronger
garrison than any of those Islands can furnish, and that
being capable of being made impregnable because unaccessable with an inconsiderable charge, and of being
defended with a few hands. When setled entirely by
us 'twill be a considerable strength to all the Leeward
Islands, and be capable of making such a stand, that
they will defy any attempts of the French to dispossess
us, which they are too able to do, whenever they shall
incline to, or receive possitive orders for from France,
we owing our security in my opinion to its being the
interest of the privateers with which Martinico is setled
rather to molest our trade, and take our shipping, than
by destroying us to put themselves out of employment.
(3) The surrendering their part of the Island hinders our
well setling our own part, negros running away from
their masters to the French in crop time, where its long
before they are found or restored often spoils a crop,
and they are frequently conveyed to some other of their
islands, and are never found, which both discourages the
Planters, makes them afraid to buy new negros for fear
of loosing them; prevents the improvement of the Island,
and is a proportionable damage to H.M. in her Revenue, and the trade of Her people. (4) The French being
on the same Island 'twil be impossible to prevent such
a clandestine prohibited trade as will be very detrimental to England, the consumption of the French
wines will be considerable by reason of their cheapness
when they avoid paying customs, and will sink the
excise by drinking little or no mault drink or cyder,
which comes now in great quantitys from Bristol and
elsewhere, and are sold in bottles at a high rate, but will
be no longer used when French wine can be bought at a
lower price, and 'tis not the Leeward Islands only, but
all the Colonys that will be from thence furnished with
it; the same must be observed as well in relation to all
French silks, stuffs, lutestrings, linnings, and whatsoever
is of the manufacture of France to the utter ruin of all
English commoditys of a like nature, and of the fair
Trader, and will proportionably add to the wealth of
France. (5) Barbados is already so worn out, and her
soil so impoverisht, and therefore the charge of making
sugars there so great, the French and Dutch who have
new ground continually to work on, will undersell us in
all ye markets of Europe. Whereas St. Christophers
being the richest ground in the known world for its
bigness will enable us to undersell them, at least to
prevent their underselling us, till the West India affairs
be so far looked into that its commoditys be made as
totally English, as the Dutch have made spice theirs in the
East Indies, and which much easier may be accomplished if attempted before it is too late. (6) It will
encrease the Customs near £60,000 annually, the Island
qt. near 30,000 plantable acres, of which 15,000 will soon
be planted and will probably one acre with another
produce 2 hhds. of 1000 lb. weight each when in London,
which at about 3s. 6d. a hundred custome in London with
the 4½ p.c. duty will amount to thereabouts. But as the
whole produce is the effect of labour, it costs nothing but
manufacturing and navigating, so the whole is profit,
and so much clear gain to be annually added to the
Capital Stock of England, which at 30s. a hundred,
which is the price of a medium, is £450,000, a prodigious
sum for such a spott, etc. I have purposely made an
undercalculation both as to the quantity of plantable
ground, and its produce, and have reckoned nothing for
ginger or indigo, etc., or rhum and molasses, with which
they pay commoditys brought them from the Continent.
Which is the trade the Northern Colonys live by, and
which enables them to pay for the English manufactures
they would else be too poor to purchase and must otherwise wholly manufacture for themselves; and which is
no inconsiderable branch of our trade. Endorsed, Recd.
(with duplicate of a letter from Mr. Bolt, dated at
Boston April 14, 1711) July 11th, Read Aug. 1st, 1711.
2¼ pp. [C.O. 152, 42. Nos. 45. 45 i.; and (enclosure
only) 152, 9. No. 74; and 153, 11. pp. 351–354.] |
April 14.
St. James's. |
811. H.M. Warrant to Governor Lowther for restoring
Samuel Berwick to the Council of Barbados. Countersigned,
Dartmouth. [C.O. 324, 32. pp. 71, 72.] |
April 14.
Whitehall. |
812. Lord Dartmouth to Lt. Gov. Spotswood. I send you
enclosed an Order of Councill for regulating the method of granting
lands in the Colony of Virginia, etc. H.M. is graciously pleased to
allow and permitt that the Instruction therein recited be passed
into a law. Signed, Dartmouth. Annexed, |
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812. i. Copy of Order in Council, March 24, q.v. [C.O. 324, 32.
pp. 80–82.] |
April 17.
Whitehal. |
813. Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Dartmouth.
Enclose following. |
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813. i. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Representation upon Capt. Walton's petition relating to the
Virgin Islands. (v. Jan. 15 etc.) The said Islands lying
between your Majesty's Leeward Islands and Porto
Rico, are part of the Government of the said Leeward
Islands, (except the Island of St. Thomas which has been
for some time in possession of the King of Denmark)
and accordingly the Governor of the said Leeward
Islands is by his Instructions requir'd to assert your
Majesty's undoubted right of Sovereignty in and over
all the said Virgin Islands, under his Government, and
to prevent the subjects of any foreign Prince or State
whatsoever from setling in any of them. The Petitioner
alledges that the said Islands, particularly Spanish
Town, are capable of producing whatsoever is of the
growth of any of your Majesty's Southern Colonies and
that the situation of the Virgin Islands is such, as may
give the inhabitants great opportunities and incouragement to carry on the illegal trade, if not prevented. The
Petitioner in proof of his having been Lieut. Govt. of
the said Islands has produc'd to us his Commissn. for
that purpose, sign'd by Daniel Parke Esq. your Majesty's
then Governor of the Leeward Islands, and dated
Sept. 11th. 1707, and says he continued in that Government till abt. August 1709; but whether he has receiv'd
any salary or other gratification for his service during
that time, we are not able to inform your Majesty otherwise than that he affirms he never receiv'd any. We
have likewise been attended by other persons that have
been at the said Virgin Islands, who inform us, that only
Spanish Town, one of the said Islands, has a good harbour, and that they believ'd the soil of that Island is
good; that most of the rest of those Islands are little
better than rocks; that if there were a settlement made
on the said Islands, unless the same were secur'd by a
fortification and a company of soldiers at least, the
inhabitants wou'd be liable to be plunder'd and insulted
by the French and Spaniards from Hispaniola and Porto
Rico; that if such settlemt. was so secur'd as aforesaid
those Islands wou'd nevertheless be a shelter for pirats
and buckaniers; and that it wou'd be difficult without
maintaining ships of war there, to prevent illegal trade
between the inhabitants that shou'd be setled there, and
the Island of St. Thomas, and that there being but very
few people upon the Virgin Islands, if a settlemt. were
made there it wou'd occasion the running away of
servants and others from your Majesty's Leeward
Islands to the great prejudice of the said Islands. This
being the best information we have been able to get
(no good account relating to the Virgin Islands having
been transmitted to us from the Government of the
Leeward Islands) we are of opinion that your Majesty's
pleasure be signify'd to Governor Douglas upon his
arrival, to lay this matter before the respective Councils
of the Leeward Islands for their consideration, and
thereupon to transmit to one of your Majesty's Principal
Secretarys of State, and to the Commissioners of Trade
and Plantations their opinion. whether it may be adviseable to make any settlement on the said Virgin Islands
as propos'd, and that at the same time he send a particular account of the present state and condition of the
said Virgin Islands, with respect to the soil, productions
and conveniencies thereof for trade, as likewise to the
numbers and condition of your Majesty's subjects
inhabiting there; that your Majesty may then declare
your further pleasure thereupon; and that in the meantime the Governor be directed to take care strictly to
observe his Instructions for asserting your Majesty's
right of sovereignty in and over the said Virgin Islands,
and for preventing the subjects of any foreign Prince
or State from setling in any of them (except the Island
of St. Thomas) in such manner as in and by the said
Instructions is directed. [C.O. 153, 11. pp. 285–289;
and (autograph signatures) 314, 1. Nos. 1, 1 i.] |
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814. (1) Edward Buncombe to Governor Park. Petition
for compensation (v. March 24). Copy. 1 p. |
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(2) Copy of Governor Parke's order for appraisement of Mr.
Buncombe's losses. Signed, Daniel Parke. Aug. 17, 1709. Copy.
1 p. |
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(3) Appraisement of Mr. Buncombe's losses. Total:
£1330 11s. 6d. Signed, Barth. Rees, Jno. Bramley, Geo. Milward.
Aug. 29, 1709. Copy. ¾ p. |
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(4) Petition of Edward Buncombe to Governor Parke and
the General Council and Assembly met at St. Christophers, with
their opinion that reparation ought to be granted. (v. March 24).
March 30, 1710. Copy. 2 pp. |
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(5) Affidavit by Jno. Buncombe that above copies are genuine,
and that satisfaction has been made to others in the Leeward
Islands who have been similarly plundered. Signed, Jno.
Buncombe. April 17, 1711. ½ p. The whole endorsed, Recd.
Read April 17, 1711. [C.O. 152, 9. Nos. 61–64, 64a, 65.] |
April 17.
St. James's. |
815. H.M. Instructions to Capt. Josias Crowe, C. in C. of the
Convoy to Newfoundland. Following the Representation of the
Council of Trade, we hereby authorize and empower you to redress and punish all such abuses or offences as shall be committed
at Newfoundland contrary to the Act to encourage the trade to
Newfoundland, in such manner as the same have formerly been,
or lawfully may be redressed or punished, according to the known
usage or custom of that place; and as to all other cases not to be
redressed there, we do hereby strictly require you to inform
yourself, whether the several directions and provisions in the said
Act, particularly those relating to the complements of green men
or freshmen, as likewise the keeping of journals by Admirals of
harbours, be duly observed and comply'd with, and if you shall
find they are not, you are then and in that case to transmitt to
one of our principall Secretarys of State, and to our Commrs. of
Trade and Plantations the names of the several persons so offending with a particular and exact account of their respective offences,
and how proved to the end such offenders may be proceeded and
punished against here. Signed, A.R. [C.O. 324, 32. pp. 74,
75.] |
April 19.
St. James's. |
816. Order of Queen in Council. Approving draught of
Instructions to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, (v. April 13).
Signed, Christo. Musgrave. Endorsed, Recd. 12th, Read 15th
May, 1711. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 1264. No. 116; and 5, 1292. p. 310.] |
April 19.
Whitehal. |
817. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Refer
to documents relating to the case of Edward Buncombe given under
March 24 and April 17th, q.v. We are humbly of opinion that
petitioner is justly entitul'd to have reparation according to the
Act of the Leeward Islands 1701 for the damage he has sustain'd.
Propose that H.M. signify Her pleasure to Governor Douglas that
upon his arrival he do in the most effectual manner recommend
petitioner's case to the Council and Assembly of Mountserrat, or
to the General Council and Assembly of the Leeward Islands, as
occasion may require, that justice may be done to him therein.
[C.O. 153, 11. pp. 289–293.] |
April 19.
St. James's. |
818. Order of Queen in Council. Approving preceding Representation and directing accordingly. Signed, Christo. Musgrave.
Endorsed. Recd. 12th, Read 15th May, 1711. 1 p. [C.O. 152, 9.
No. 67; and 153, 11. pp. 309, 310; and 5, 11. No. 65.] |
April 19.
St. James's. |
819. Order of Queen in Council. Approving Draft of
Instructions (v. April 13) to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina,
which are to be prepared for H.M. signature. Signed, Christo.
Musgrave. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 11. No. 64.] |
