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Caribbeana. Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays on various subjects and occasions / chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738.

Date:: 1741

Credit: Caribbeana. Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays on various subjects and occasions / chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 4° ] * cFo the Qjj een’s mojl Excellent Majejly, Guardian of the King¬ dom* &c. in Council. « ^ Afoy ri pleafe Tour Majefty, IN Humble Obedience to Your Majefty’s Order in Council, referring to us the annexed Extract of a Letter from Mr. Worjley his Majefty’s Go¬ vernor of Barbados, to the Lords Commiftioners for Trade and Planta¬ tions, dated the 20th of April laft, together with Copies of feveral Pa¬ pers referred to therein, concerning the great Confufion to which that Iflanci is likely to be brought, on Account of feveral of the Inhabitants having refufed to pay the Tax, impofed by Law, for the Payment of the Governor’s Salary, and for other publick Services, upon a Supposition that the faid Law is determined, and directing us to confider the fame, and report our Opinion thereupon to your Majefty in Council, we have con¬ sidered the fame, and do find, that his late Majefty King George the Firft, of Glorious Memory, by Letters Patent, dated the Eleventh Day of January, 1721, appointed Henry Worjley, Efq; Governor o£ Barbados, to continue during his faid late MajeftyN Pleafure. That by an Arif of Aftembly palled in Barbados, upon the twenty fixth Day of February, 1722, and afterwards confirmed by his faid late Majefty, feveral Duties were granted to his faid late Majefty, his Heirs, and SuccefTors, during the Continuance of the faid Act •, in the firft Place, for the Payment of the Annual Sum of fix thoufand Pounds, of lawful Money of that Part of Great Britain called England, for fupporting the Honour and Dignity of his Majefty’s Government there, to be paid to Mr. Worjley, on the Firft Day of June annually, during the Continuance of the faid Ad, together with the Exchange for the fame, after the Rate of thirty Pounds per Cent. _ And it is thereby provided that the faid Aft fhould continue for fo long Time as Mr. Worjley fhall continue to be His Majefty’s Captain General, and Governor in Chief, and fhall in that Quality perfonally refide in the laid Hand. That Mr. Worjley. continued Governor of Barbados under the faid Letters Parent, until his late Majefty’s Demife from which Time, he was continued in the faid Government for the Space of fix Months, by Vertue of an Ad of Parliament made in the fixth Year of the Reipii of her late Majefty Queen Anne. This was publifhed in the Idand, in order to fatisfy the Minds of the People, who had been petfuaded to think, the Aft, which impos’d the Tax to be railed for the Payment of theGovernor’s Salary, was expir’d by the Demife of the late King j and, who aftually reiuled to pay the fame, under that Pretence. That

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