An Historical and Statistical Account of the Bermudas: From Their Discovery to the Present Time |
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... duties , and finding the proposed site of the town inferior to one on a neighbouring island , he removed to the spot where the town of St. George now stands , and having built a cabin , which he thatched with palmetto leaves , as a ...
... duties , and finding the proposed site of the town inferior to one on a neighbouring island , he removed to the spot where the town of St. George now stands , and having built a cabin , which he thatched with palmetto leaves , as a ...
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... duties . From an unwilling- ness to divide their power by admitting others to participate with them in the executive office , they had neglected to do this , and the malcontents , headed by Hughes , demanded that the instructions left ...
... duties . From an unwilling- ness to divide their power by admitting others to participate with them in the executive office , they had neglected to do this , and the malcontents , headed by Hughes , demanded that the instructions left ...
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... duties of his office ; but he wanted energy , and the Company took an early opportunity to inform him , by the Sea- Flower , that Captain Nathaniel Butler was appointed to relieve him ; this information was not very agreeable to the ...
... duties of his office ; but he wanted energy , and the Company took an early opportunity to inform him , by the Sea- Flower , that Captain Nathaniel Butler was appointed to relieve him ; this information was not very agreeable to the ...
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... duties with activity and zeal , but unfortunately both he and his wife died six weeks after their arrival , to the great regret of the people , and were both buried on the same day . He The people elected Captain John Harrison to suc ...
... duties with activity and zeal , but unfortunately both he and his wife died six weeks after their arrival , to the great regret of the people , and were both buried on the same day . He The people elected Captain John Harrison to suc ...
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... duties when in office , little notice was taken of them . Captain Roger Wood relieved Governor Bell in 1629. The colony now contained a population of between two and three thousand , which was rapidly on the increase . Chesteven , after ...
... duties when in office , little notice was taken of them . Captain Roger Wood relieved Governor Bell in 1629. The colony now contained a population of between two and three thousand , which was rapidly on the increase . Chesteven , after ...
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Page 46 - Ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's Pearl upon our Coast. And in these Rocks for us did frame A Temple, where to sound his Name. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's Vault : Which thence (perhaps) rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Page 45 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like...
Page 274 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 279 - Province and Plantations or any of them and if it shall so please God, them to vanquish, apprehend, and take, and being taken either according to Law to put to Death or keep and preserve alive at your Discretion and to execute martial Law in Time of Invasion...
Page 45 - What should we do but sing His praise That led us through the watery maze Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own? Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks That lift the deep upon their backs, He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms' and prelates
Page 278 - Laws in execution, and to administer or cause to be administered unto them, such Oath or Oaths as are usually given for the due execution and performance of offices and places, and for the clearing of truth in judicial causes.
Page 274 - We do hereby appoint to be a Quorum; Our Will and Pleasure is, that you signify the same unto us by the first opportunity, that We may under Our Signet and Sign Manual constitute and appoint others in their Stead. But that Our Affairs may not suffer at that Distance, for Want of a due Number of Councillors...
Page 277 - ... you shall and may likewise from time to time as you shall judge it necessary adjourn prorogue and dissolve all general assemblies as aforesaid.
Page 98 - I cannot consent to defeat his Majesty's Intentions and disappoint his Expectations by abandoning a Post to which he has been graciously pleased to appoint me, — An appointment made without my Solicitation or Privity, and accepted by me from a Sense of Duty to the King and the Hopes of serving my Country. I wish therefore to give him no Cause to suspect my Fidelity, and I assure you I will do nothing without a due Regard to their true Interest. 'As a Judge and in every other Capacity...
Page 331 - Be it therefore enacted, by the lieutenant governor, council, and assembly of the said island, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same, That from and after the...