and the money gained by cuftom of ill gotten goods, this deponent telling the faid Martin he feared the ifland would be prejudiced by it; and it may be those he thought he moft ferved by giving fuch encourage ment to privateers: to which the faid Martin replied, I do fo order it that none but freeholders and inhabitants enter with me, and I'll warrant none fhall come to any damage; I'll order it that my books thall clear them, or to fuch effect. And this deponent verily believes that the faid carl had fome fuch opinion of the faid Martin, ftill he was fo very earnest to bring him for England; whereas, I conceive, had he come and fworn truth, it would have tended to his lordship's difadvantage in that particular.

The deponent further faith, that, being once at the earl of Carlife's, a difcourfe was moved about the manner of fhipping fome of the Spanish indigo, and it would not be fafe to fhip it in the fame veffel, left the Spanish embassadors by the mark fhould caufe feizures in England; on which the faid earl, fpeaking to his countefs, faid, Wife, do you hear this? yours, I believe, is gone in the fame chefts: Alfo the faid Martin declared he had bought several chefts of indigo for the countefs, and the earl declared he had or would lay out three hundred pounds, or fome fuch fum, in the faid Spanish indigo. The faid deponent further faith, that one John Butlin, clerk of the court and peace in Clarendon, was turned out, and one Harvey put in his place; and the reafon given by the faid earl was, that he had promifed the faid Harvey's mother, as this deponent remembereth, in England to be kind to him; and when it was tried, Butlin was a diligent, good, careful, officer, and that was a loofe idle fellow: The earl replied to this deponent, he believed by fome ill thing or other the faid Harvey would forfeit his place, and then Butlin fhould be reftored; for then the faid earl thould have difcharged his promife to the faid Harvey or his friends, or to fuch effect.

This deponent further faith, as he was used to fit with the faid eas fometimes as councillor, fometimes as ordinary, he hath heard him in this deponent's opinion give very strange reafons for his judgments: The one is rich, the other very poor, or this was reprefented to me or others as much incompetent; and when his jurifdiction hath been demurred, he would not determine it, but caufe by his authority both parties to leave it to him as an umpire.

This deponent hath heard the faid earl declare he believed he might, if his majefty lived, be governor of Jamaica as long as he lived.

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This deponent, as he was chief-juftice, had a fee of one fhilling and three-pence from every procefs iffued out of the grand-court; but, when his fucceffor was commiffioned, the faid earl, as he was credibly informed, being told that all the procefs dated before my fucceffor's commiffion must be figned and bear teft in my name, and that otherwife it would be erroneous, my writ of cafe bearing date but two days before the return of those process; yet he, as I was informed, ordered my name to be ftruck out, and Byndlofs's, my fucceffor, inferted; by which means the clerk of the court informed me that torty-feven pounds, or thereabouts, was added to the profit of the faid Byndlofs and taken from me. In favour alfo of the faid Byndlofs, the faid earl commanded one captain Brayne, as Brayne himfelf told me, to renew an obligation by which the faid Byndlofs was indebted to the faid Brayne in others right in about five hundred pounds, to the end the faid Byndlofs might give a new obligation, and to fave fome years intereft, amounting to a confiderable fum, and threatened to lay the faid Brayne in prifon if he did not. Brayne asked my advice, I being his fecurity to his principals, advised him rather to go to prison than be frighted out of that which he muft afterwards make good out of his own pocket.

This deponent remembereth, that one John Hewit told him he haď gotten a pardon from the faid earl, for having two wives, which cost him about a hundred or a hundred and fix pounds, fifty whereof he faid never vexed him, because the earl put it to a good ufe, but the other one Mr. Ellis had, which vexed him, or to that effect.

This deponent remembereth one Pochin, one Cole, and one Camp, all condemned for murder, and others for manflaughter, all which as this de ponent is credibly informed are kept alive for money to the earl or fome of his family; but this deponent knoweth it not to be truth in his own knowledge.

This deponent hath fome letters which he received from Jamaica, ready to be produced, one whereof mentions in a thort time five hundred men were gone off the island; the others give an account of twenty-four veffels taken per Sawkins, Coxon, and others, in the South Seas; which Coxon, Sawkins, Cooke, Sharpe, Primier, and others, as this deponent is credibly informed, have all been in the faid earl's prefence and power. And this deponent verily believeth, by what he hath heard and feen, if the

faid earl and fir Henry Morgan had at feveral times fhut their doors they might have catched moft of the chief pirates and privateers in their houfes. And further at this time the deponent faith not, the fubfiance and the very words of the foregoing particulars I fwear to be the truth.

Sworn before me 7th January, 1680..

THILIP LOYD.

A true copy.)

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SAMUEL LONG.

The depofition of John Bathurst, aged thirty-eight years or thereabouts, depoteth as follows: That the faid earl of Carlisle hath been an encourager of privateers, both by his words and actions; firft by difcourfe with me as alfo others, affirming and menacing that the goods brought in by privateers was for the good and profit of the ifland, though I myself with feveral others told him feveral times it would prove the ruin of the island, by the deftruction of the trade, the poor planters, the goods produced per labour being brought to fo low a price that it would ruin them, their wives, and children, and confequently his majefty's ifland, as alfo his cuftom thereby accruing. This part of the affidavit I thought not fit to make ufe of, it proves there was always a trade in Jamaica for the merchants to buy and fell Spanith indigo, being brought in lawful veffels. That, at the time of the fitting of the laft affembly, there came to your majesty's deponent, being a member thereof, feveral perfons of Withywood who were planters of indigo, making great and grievous complaint that they had been at Port-Royal, the place of the difpofal of their goods, and could find no buyers except at a very low rate; and the merchants told them that the reafons thereof were that the pirates had brought in a very great quantity, and that they bought it at very low prices, and would not give them more, by reafon they were obliged to fend home their employers returns to their greatest advantage; and faid alfo that they would with there was no goods brought in by privateers, knowing that at laft it would prove the ruin of the poor planters, and that if they should not fend returns home, though bought of privateers, at low rates, others would buy them, and they in confequence fhould lofe their employment, favour, and bufinefs. Thefe two laft letters refer not to any part of the charge. Upon their complaint, your deponent did move the affembly with others that a petitic might be drawn up to the earl of Carlifte for fuppreffing privateers, and fecurity of the peace to be taken for those that were in the iiland re

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ted privateers, that the peace of your allies might be inviolably kept, your fubjects preserved, and your inland reftored to its former flourishing eftate; and it might not be efteemed as a place protecting pirates, and by confequence esteemed worse than Algiers, we profeffing Chriftianity, and at the fame time, robbing thofe that are at peace and amity with us.

Your deponent hath further heard captain Primier and other privateers fay, that privateering now was better than ever, there being no tenths, nor fifteenths, nor charge of commiffion; affirming, though my lord Carlile had one third part of the value of the indigo, they were well contented; and he was a perfon of that worth, and fo kind to them, that they did not care if they gave him half; at the fame time curfing my lord Vaughan, for no other reafons than that he did what in him lay to fupprofs privateering.

Your deponent, being another time in company with the earl of CarHifle, fir Henry Morgan, fir Francis Watfon, and colonel Byndlofs, did acquaint them that he was forry no care was taken to fupprefs privateering, and that thefe things at home will be laid to the charge of the ifland, which is only to the advantage of fome particular perfons, but detefted by all juft and honeft men. My lord then anfwered there had been no complaint made; to which I replied, what was the petition of the affembly, which I told him was the complaint of the whole ifland, they being their representation: and withall told him that Coxon with feveral others of the chief of them kept company with thofe that fhould take care to redrefs fuch enormities and, violations. I further told him that colonel Cope, one of the council, had lately been at the northfide, and at his return lodged at my houfe, where enquiring fomething of him of one captain Sawkins, he faid he had been in his company where he lodged at captain Benjamin Smith's, anti about fifty of his men were there, which he faid might eafily have been taken ; but I afking him why it was not done ? he replied, that he thought he was a good honeft fellow; I was informed he received fome prefents from him; unto which my lord replied that captain Smith was one of the affembly that entertained them; to which I antwered that I knew none that gave them countenance but fuch as had -received his commiffion, and I thought it was the duty of every magi ftrate and governor not only to do juftice when complaint was made, but alto to make infpection into any public injuries done to the violation of the peace between the king and his allies, and to take all ways and means to

to fupprefs the fame; but he perfifted in the difcourfe that the complaints were nothing to him of general and not particulars, and that if the Spaniards came and made complaints against any perfon, and could prove they had robbed and defpoiled them of their goods, they thould be proceeded againft according to law; to which I replied, I thought that could not be done, and that by this means they could not be fupprefled.

Further, this deponent faith, that, at the diffolution of the affembly, the lord Carlisle afked the faid deponent,-Will you obey the king and his governor, according to the new form and model of government which has now been fent over? To which I anfwered I would obey the king and his lawful commands. To the which he replied, then you intend to be judge thereof, and ordered my name to be placed at the left hand; but I defired I might be the explainer of my own words, which were to this effect, that I fuppofed the law was the medium between the king and the people, otherwite no man could be fafe. And further your deponent faith

not.

The mark of JOHN BATHURST.

A true copy,

Sworn to the truth of the contents hereof, before me, the 7th January, 1680-1.

PHILIP LOYD.

PHILIP LOYD.

London, January 6th, 1680-1.

JOSEPH KNAPMAN, commander of the fhip Loyal Merchant, ufing the trade of Jamaica, faith that he was in Jamaica in the year 1578, and his whole port charges was but one pound feven thillings and fixpence, befides two hundred and fifty pounds of powder; and in th year 1679 then demanded and received one pound and twelve thillings in money, befides the powder; and this year, 1680, the faid Knapman be ing in Jamaica with the fan officers, they demanded one pound eigh teen fhillings and fixpence; the faid Knapman, obferving the fees to rife every year. made enquiry whether their fees had been raised by any law of fe country or not, and, being informed that they were not, the faid Knapman fcrupled to pay the fees the naval oncer demanded; but the

officer,