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Aug. 1.
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1815. The King to Sir Thos. Temple, Governor of Nova Scotia.
By letter of the 31st December last (see ante, No. 1654) his Majesty
ordered him forthwith to restore Acadie to the French King ; but
whereas the Sieur Colbert brings certain overtures concerning those
countries to be surrendered respectively, his Majesty's pleasure is
that if the said country has not been restored to the said King, he
forbear the delivery thereof till he shall have received further
directions. Draft in the handwriting of Williamson. 1½ pp. [Col.
Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 32.]
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Aug. 3.
Barbadoes.
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1816. Address of the Representatives of Barbadoes to the King.
Humbly beg pardon if they renew their desires submitted to his
Majesty in former addresses (see ante, Nos. 1565, 1642), and add
thereto from the necessity the late dreadful fire has put upon them ;
though less might be said at present, in respect of the studious care
of Governor Lord Willoughby, and the account his Majesty will
receive from his son Col. William Willoughby. When they consider
the potent and frank Hollander, settled on the one hand at
Surinam, and the proud and envious French on the other at the
Leeward Isles, whose study it is now to overbalance the commerce
of the English colonies, to depress the inhabitants' spirits, they
are induced to represent their sad condition and the most probable
way of remedy. First, the sad and deplorable effects of a dreadful
fire in April last, when, in less than six hours, three-quarters of the
principal town or metropolis of the island were consumed, with the
chief magazine, leaving them naked to the attempts of the enemy.
Pray for a supply of cannon, powder and shot, hand grenades,
and fire-arms. Represent the heavy burden of the 4½ per cent.
imposed by an Assembly illegally convened by Francis Lord Willoughby,
and pray his Majesty to take a sum of money for purchasing
off that duty for ever, and for granting them a charter,
which shall advantage his Majesty's interests and make the inhabitants
happy and prosperous ; or that said duty may be paid in
England at some reasonable rate on sugars. Represent the inconceivable
poverty the want of trade of late years has brought the
inhabitants under ; and the rather that the Dutch and French by
their frank and free offers induce all they can to their settlements,
and their own pinching and heart killing restraints, and pray for
free trade with Guinea for negro slaves, and with all nations in
amity with England, paying customs here or in England. That
they may set up a mint for coining money to be proper to this
place only ; and that no person be compelled off this island to
answer in other place or other manner than in this island, according
to the laws of England, and laws and customs here practised. The
want of these things has not a little obstructed his Majesty's
revenue and interest, for a prosperous people render a Prince potent
and happy, for he hath the argument of a free subject to cope with
the restraints and fears of enslaved peasants and servility. "A
true copy of the original examined per me, Edward Bowden, clerk of
the Assembly." 6 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 33.]
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Aug. 3.
Office of the
Ordnance.
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1817. Estimate of the charge of ordnance, carriages, powder, and
other provisions to be issued out of his Maiesty's stores for the
defence of Barbadoes, by warrant from the Privy Council of 28th
July 1668. These include 30 culverins, 10 demy culverins, 800
round shot, 200 barrels of powder, 1,500 muskets, 150 barrels of
shot, 1,500 bandoliers, 500 long pikes, 2,000 swords, and 40 ship
carriages for mounting said guns ; and amount to 4,502l. 17s. 5d.
Signed by Fra. Nicholls, Ri. March, and Edw. Sherburne. Indorsed,
Read in Council Aug. 5, 1668. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol.
XXIII., No. 34.]
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Aug. 8.
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1818. Report of Dr. Jo. Mylles and Dr. Rich. Lloyd, substitutes to
the Judge of the Admiralty, to [the Lords of the Privy Council],
why they refused to decree the delivery of the ship [Our] Lady of
Conception to Anthony Maldenas Vicino and Company, Spaniards.
Because the said ship, now called the Crescent, was condemned by the
Judge of the Admiralty in Jamaica in August 1667, and aftrewards
bought at a public sale by Molesworth, Holmes, and Company,
English merchants and was by them laden at the port of London
under the command of Samuel Walker, who was at the arrest and long
before in quiet possession of said ship, and no cause shown why
he should be dispossessed. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 35.]
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Aug. 11.
Barbadoes.
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1819. Governor Wm. Lord Willoughby to the King. His son
Will. accompanied by Col. Drax and Mr. Bowden, two of his Council,
intelligible persons, and of no faction, which is rare in Barbadoes,
will inform his Majesty of his behaviour and the people's temper,
of which he has given some account to the Council and Secretaries
of State, craving his Majesty's assistance by additional instructions
for proceeding with the French at St. Kitts and the Dutch at Surinam
and suppressing some few factious persons here. This Assembly
by their impudent Address have fully declared what they aim at, to
which if his Majesty please to give a sharp rebuke, they will learn
that his Majesty will justify his Governor till he disobey him. Col.
Lambert has shown great contempt to his Majesty's authority in
the negotiation at St. Kitts, and though Willoughby has a little
humbled him he yet perseveres. The great pique these persons
have against Willoughby is for endeavouring to enlarge his Majesty's
territories, and if his Majesty will allow Antigua and Montserrat
some privileges for a few years, with arms, ammunition, and great
guns, doubts not they will soon reimburse his Majesty and be a
greater gall to the French than Barbadoes. Renews his request for
leave to come for England if his Majesty have no design of war,
but whether peace or war, some ships here for the present are of
absolute necessity. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 36.]
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Aug. 11.
Barbadoes.
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1820. Gov. Wm. Lord Willoughby to Williamson. Hopes he
has seen his son Will, and read all he brings. Admiral Abraham
Crynsens has supplied him with new matter ; wishes his Majesty
would supply him with ships that he might discourse with the
Admiral in his own dialect. By the narrative of Col. Banister,
Governor of Surinam, that affair may be understood ; desires to
hear from him what to do, meantime will give his admiralship
good words, as by enclosed copy of letter Willoughby has already
written but not sent will appear. Expects orders likewise as to
Monsieur, and begs he will name more proper Commissioners than
formerly, as he will perceive by Col. Lambert's behaviour from the
beginning to the end of his employment (sic). How some few
inconsiderable factious persons endeavour to discompose the island,
countenanced at home by Sir Peter Colleton and others, who pretend
great interest in your office, which was the foundation of the
Assembly's impudent Address to his Majesty ; this address passes
not through Willoughby's hand, though he had no mind to stifle it,
that they may appear the persons he reports them. Had been
better able, had he been permitted to come home, to have served his
master and acknowledged his friends' favours, which he desires may
yet be promoted, unless they apprehend wars with the French, "and
if so, supply me with ships and men and trust me with the conduct,
unless some abler person, such as Sir Robt. Howard, be designed
for that honour." Hates to die in debt, and were his Government
the thing it is supposed, Williamson had long ere this heard from
him ; but he vows as yet he has not received an ounce of sugar or a
penny of money from the King or country. Indorsed, Rec. 21 Oct.
Incloses,
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1820. I. Gov. Willoughby to Capt. Abraham Crynssens. The first
paragraph of this letter is word for word the same as
the first paragraph of enclosure No. 1812. Shall justify
the giving commission against the Arwacas, nor does he
believe that Crynssens can imagine that by possessing
Surinam the Dutch are become lords of the whole mainland
of America ; and though he has thought fit to surprise
a poor sloop that intended him no injury, and to keep it
and send the persons in her to Zealand, believes he will
repent it, for full satisfaction will be required at his hands.
Knows nothing of the persons who took the five Indians
from the river Marowyn. Expects the restitution of Col.
Codrington's sloop. It is impossible to make a friendly
visit on the terms they are yet on. Has since received a
letter from him dated about the 2nd, stilo novo, and with
it a narrative of his severe behaviour to Col. Banister,
Governor of Surinam, and the rest of his fellow subjects,
wherein, if rightly informed, Crynsens has broken the
Articles of Peace and his own articles with the inhabitants,
by refusing them liberty of removing with their goods.
By the articles Willoughby conceives only the land to be
Dutch, and that his master's subjects ought not to be
detained prisoners or refused transporting their goods and
negroes, but Col. Banister for asserting those articles is
sent prisoner to your High and Mighty. "If by our
masters you and I be appointed judges in this matter, I
shall endeavour to justify my own nation, and perchance
trouble you ;" but will obey orders and be very cautious
of the breach of that happy Peace made at Breda. Will
not send any English vessels for traffic till he receives
positive answer to this and the return of Col. Codrington's
sloop, and the persons belonging to her ; as he receives
answer he will provide for the transport of such of his
master's subjects as shall desire to remove. Barbadoes,
1668, Aug. 15. Indorsed, Rec. 21 Oct. 1668. Together
3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., Nos. 37, 37 I.]
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1668?
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1821. The King to [Wm.] Lord Willoughby, Gov. of Barbadoes.
License to return home, as well in consideration of his private affairs
as for several important reasons relating to the King's service.
Draft with corrections in Williamson's hand. 1 p. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XXIII., No. 38.]
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1668.
Aug. 12.
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1822. Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General. To prepare a
bill containing his Majesty's grant of special license to Benjamin
Worseley, Doctor of Physic, and his assigns, for the sole use of his
invention of planting, dressing, and curing Senna in his Majesty's
Plantations in America for 14 years, with a prohibition to all others
within his Majesty's dominions during said term without license of
said Dr. Worseley or his assigns, see ante, No. 1299. 1¼ pp. [Dom.
Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. XXX., p. 65 ; also Vol. XXI., pp. 68, 69.]
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[Aug. 12.]
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1823. Copy of preceding Warrant, mutilated. 1 p. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XXIII., No. 39.]
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Aug. 14.
Whitehall.
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1824. Order of the King in Council. On report of the Committee
for Trade and Plantations that the rates, quality, and goodness of
the clothes proposed for Sir Tobias Bridge's regiment in Barbadoes
be referred to Sir Peter Colleton, Major Edmund Andros, and Capt.
James Cotter, for their report. [See No. 1839.] Annexed,
Report of Sir Peter Colleton, Major Andros, and Capt. Cotter
to the King in Council. That they find the clothes very well
worth the following rates :—Two shirts, 2s. 6d. each ; 1 pair
of linen trowsers, 2s. 6d. ; 2 pairs of linen stockings, 1s. each ;
2 pairs of shoes, 2s. 4d. a pair ; 2 cravats, 6d. each ; 1 hat, 3s. ;
and 1 cloth coat edged with blue, 15s. 6d. ; amounting to
1l. 13s. 8d. each man, which for 600 men will amount to
1,010l., and for twenty drummers at 25s. each 25l. more.
Indorsed, Read in Council 19 Aug. and allowed of and ordered.
Together 2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., Nos. 40, 41.]
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Aug. 15.
Montserrat.
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1825. Ten Acts passed before the late war, and this day publicly
read and confirmed until the Governor and Council further consider
of the same, viz. :—
1. Act for the observation of the Lord's day.
2. Act for free trade for merchants and dealers. Reserving to
the Governor 24 hours for his particular with the inhabitants, and
for preventing the fraud in quality or quantity of weights and
measures.
3. Act against ingrossers of commodities and forestallers of
goods.
4. Act to prevent merchants or factors in this island from selling
goods left with them at a dearer rate than the first merchant sold,
upon pain of 1,000 lbs. of tobacco. (Title only.)
5. Act for viewing, sealing, and allowing merchants' weights and
measures, &c. (Title only.)
6. Act for masters of ships, boats, or vessels that come to anchor
in the road of this island to enter into bond within 24 hours in
the Secretary's office not to transport any person from the island
without license from the office under the Governor's hand, and to
have license of trade from the office before they sell their goods,
&c. (Title only.)
7. Act for the Marshal's attending the Governor once in every
24 hours, &c. (Title only.)
8. Act against going through fields of canes with lighted pipes
of tobacco, &c. Jan. 4, 1659-1660.
9. Act against slaves going from their masters' plantations on
the Lord's day ; and against such as entertain any runaways.
4 Jan. 1659-1660.
10. Act against negroes and slaves that presume to go from
their masters' plantations without licence under their hand, &c.
20 May 1662.
Together 5 pp. [Col. Entry, Bk., No. XLIX., pp. 90-94. These
Acts are printed in Col. Entry Bk., No. LV., pp. 24-31.]
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Aug. 19.
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1826. Deposition of Major Samuel Smith, late Governor of Providence.
That being by commission from Sir Thos. Modyford in
quiet possession, he was on Aug. 1666 by three Spanish vessels,
a New England ketch taken from the English by the Spaniards,
and an English ship, the Concord, 30 guns, of which Henry Wasey
was commander, manned by Spaniards, summoned to surrender,
which he refused to do. Whereupon the enemy landed, and after
three days' siege he was forced to surrender upon articles for good
quarter, which the Spaniards did not in the least perform, for the
English, about forty, were immediately made prisoners, and all,
except Sir Thos. Whetstone, this deponent, and Capt. Stanley, who
were commanders, forced to work in irons and chains at the
Spaniards' forts, with many stripes, and many are since dead
through want and ill-usage. Said three Commanders were sent to
Panama, where they were cast into a dungeon and bound in irons for
seventeen months. At length being released this deponent arrived
at the Havannah, "his company being lost," where he was clapped
into gaol. In which city were many English prisoners lying in
irons, where this deponent heard the Griffin, Capt. Swaert, was sunk
by a Spanish galleon. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 42.]
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Aug. 19.
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1827. Deposition of Henry Wasey, master of the Concord, of 400
tons. That on 25th May 1666 he was seized with his said ship lying
at anchor in Portobello, and put in irons on pretence of being a spy,
although registered and licensed, and was forced to send to Panama
for an attestation that the Spaniards manned his said ship and sailed
her to Providence to retake said island. That he saw prisoners taken
in Providence made slaves in Portobello, and 13 more slaves in
Cartagena, and that Capt. Mansfield, an English vessel, brought in
as prize at the Havannah, and Capt. Mansfield, the Commander,
clapped in irons, who it was reported was suddenly after put to
death. Indorsed, Read in Council 19 Dec. 1668. 1 p. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XXIII., No. 43.]
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Aug. 19.
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1828. Deposition of Roger Baker, mariner, husband and pilot of
the St. Fortunetta, alias Leghorn Merchant, of 260 tons, and 20 guns
That in October 1664 he sailed from London to Jamaica manned
with Spaniards, who in a base and violent manner forced him to
leave said ship at Jamaica, and the Spaniards have ever since detained
her to this deponent's utter ruin. Indorsed, Read in Council
18th Dec. 1668. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 44.]
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Aug. 25.
New York.
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1829. Samuel Mavericke to (Sec. Lord Arlington). Begs leave
briefly to give account of what has passed in the northern parts of
New England since August 1666. A packet was received on the
6th of that month by the Commissioners from Sir Wm. Morrice with
letters from his Majesty to the three colonies which had freely submitted
to his Government, and a signification of his pleasure concerning
the Massachusetts which had refused to submit, commanding
Governor Bellingham and Major Hathorne to repair to England. It
was six weeks ere the Council assembled, and shortly after they
voted that the persons sent for should not go : which, when known,
many of the considerablest persons within the Government petitioned
that his Majesty's command might be obeyed, but they received a
sharp reproof for their presumption, and Bellingham was made choice
of for Governor, and Hathorne for a Councillor, and so they remain.
In his Majesty's signification he expressly commanded that no alteration
should be made in what the Commissioners had done as to
bounds between colonies, until his pleasure were further known ; and
in particular the Province of Maine, which the Commissioners had
taken from the Massachusetts. Notwithstanding at a General Court
in April last Bellingham was again chosen Governor, and he commissioned
Major Jno. Leverett and others to go into Maine and
turn out those appointed by the Commissioners, and to hold a Court
at York in the name of the Massachusetts. Accordingly they went
with horse and foot, seized forcibly on the records (which have been
well kept there under four changes of Government for near 30 years),
committed the Marshall to prison, and appointed their old Marshall.
It came very near to shedding of blood : but the Justices published
a protest, and so remain subject to their enemies the Massachusetts,
till his Majesty shall relieve them, for which they have by this conveyance
earnestly petitioned. Shortly after the reducing of these
parts from the Dutch, Lord Jno. Berkley and Sir George Carteret
sent over to take possession of land granted them by his Royal
Highness out of his patent, which has proved very prejudicial to this
place. Their bounds reach from the east of Delaware river to the
west of Hudson's river, including a vast tract of the "most improvablest
land," within the Duke's patent, who has nothing left to the
west of New York, and to the east upon the main, about 16 miles
only. Long Island is very poor, and besides this city there are but
two Dutch towns, Sopus and Albany, which lie up north on Hudson's
river. Supposes when Lord Berkley had that grant the inconveniences
of the grant were not known or considered. Col. Nicolls
can give full satisfaction of matters here, who, after his abode of four
years, where he hath lived with great reputation and honour, is now
returning home. Must accompany him with this character, that he
has done his Majesty very considerable service in these parts, having
kept persons of different judgments and divers nations in peace,
when a great part of the world was in wars : and as to the Indians
they were never brought into such a peaceable posture and fair correspondence
as by his means they now are. Printed in New York
Documents, III., 173, 174. 4 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII.,
No. 45.]
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[Aug. 25.]
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1830. Mem. concerning miscarriages at St. Christopher's, in the
handwriting of Dr. Leoline Jenkins. His Royal Highness being, by his
Majesty's order in Council of July 9th last, desired to give directions
for putting the miscarriage at St. Christopher's into the proper way
of examination, commanded the Judge of the Admiralty to proceed
with all care and speed, who forthwith acquainted his Majesty's
Advocate and Proctor with said order, declaring that he was ready
to take the examinations of any persons they should produce
touching said miscarriages ; but said Advocate and Proctor not
having found any person, as they say, that can give any account
thereof, said Judge craves his Royal Highness's further directions.
Indorsed, Read 25 August 1668. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII.,
No. 46.]
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Aug.?
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1831. Report of [Dr. Jenkins] Judge of the Admiralty, "of the
miscarriage at St. Christopher's." Supposing the miscarriage to
have been occasioned by the discord or ill-conduct of officers or
soldiers belonging to his Majesty's Navy on the sea, the trial of
offenders is to be before the Lord High Admiral, either in his courtmartial,
according to the Articles of War, established in Parliament
13 Car. II. cap. 9, or else in the ordinary Court in criminal matters.
If by the mutiny or other fault of the land officers or soldiers while
on the sea, before the Lord High Admiral in his ordinary Court ;
but if by the discord or fault of the officers or soldiers upon or after
landing, before the Lords Constable and Marshal, in their Court of
Chivalry, secundum Legem Armorum, and the Civil Law. 1 p.
[Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 47.]
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1832. Draft order [in the handwriting of Williamson] from the
King to [the Commissioners of Ordnance]. To deliver certain arms
and ammunition to Col. Fras. Lovelace, appointed by the Duke of
York Governor of New York, see ante, No. 1480. 1 p. [Col.
Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 48.]
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1668?
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1833. Petition of Dorothea, widow of Daniel Gotherson, formerly
Dorothea Scott, to the King. Was heir to the young house of
Scott's Hall in Kent, and brought her husband an estate of near
500l. per ann., which was all mortgaged by him, and since his
death all taken for debt, so that petitioner and six children crave
the King's clemency in the case following : a great part of her
husband's debts were contracted by his disbursing near 2,000l. to
one John Scott for land and houses in Long Island ; the land is all
disposed of, and her son, for whom it was bought, has been exposed
to work for his bread the last three or four years, though not full
17 years of age. Prays therefore for an order to Fras. Lovelace,
Deputy Governor of Long Island, to examine her pretensions and
do her justice : if she has no interest in land there, has not any
elsewhere. [Dom., Chas. II., Vol. CXLII., No. 98, Cal., p. 148.]
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Aug. 28.
Fort James,
New York.
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1834. Governor Francis Lovelace to Sec. Lord Arlington. It has
been a great affliction to him, that at his departure from England
he had not the opportunity to wait on his Lordship and receive his
instructions. Is now invested in the charge of his Royal Highness's
territories, "being the middle position of the two distinct factions,
the Papist and Puritan." Should esteem some instructions a most
singular favour ; preparatory to which he has received from his
worthy predecessor, Col. Nicolls, "the character that was fixed betwixt
you." If his Lordship will command one of his Secretaries to
correspond with Lovelace, he will not fail to give exact account of
these parts of the world. Indorsed, "Aug. 28, '68." Printed in
New York Documents, III., 174, 175. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol.
XXIII., No. 49.]
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