officer, named captain Hofkins, or fome fuch name, told the faid Knap man he fcorned to demand more than his due, for which he had my lord of Carlisle's order, and pulled a paper out of his pocket, which be told me was my lord's order, by which he demanded the money at fight; of which the faid Knapman fubmitted and paid the money. THE depofition of Samuel Nath, aged thirty years, late of Jamaica, merchant, viz. I this deponent aver, that demanding of Thomas Martin, efq. collector of his majefty's customs, why he made fuch a buftle and ftir to feize the Spanish indigo landed in the leeward part of the island? The faid Martin replied and faid, oh! it was not for importation, for they had the governor's leave, but for their endeavouring to fave the fixpence per pound cuftom, which is very confiderable to the governor. About ten days after, this deponent being carneft to weigh off fome goods which lay upon the wharf where the faid Thomas Martin was receiving fundry parcels of indigo on fhore, the faid Thomas Martin told this deponent that he muft ftay, for that the governor ought and fhould be ferved firft, part of the indigo being his. Alfo this deponent faith, that at clearing the fhip Judith, Robert Kingfland, mafter, he tendered Thomas Hodgkins, naval officer, the accustomed fees, which he refufed to accept, and replied he had an eftablishment of fees under the governor's hand; made me pay, to my best remembrance, about a third part more than fome years before I had ever known paid. Alfo this deponent, meeting one Coxon, an old noted priwateer, asked him the meaning of his fudden brifknefs; he answered he had great reafon to be fo, for the best man in the inland was now become his friend, and that he doubted not in a little time to go for more logwood, a national title for privateering, for it may be fuppofed he meant more indigo. This is not referred to any part of the charge. The governor fo maaged his arbitrary power, that after this deponent had landed fome negroes at the northfide of the island, out of an honeft English merchant fhip, vulgarly called an interloper, and conveying them to the fouthfide near Spanish-Town, this deponent was purfued in a most barba rous and hoftile manner by feveral of the governor's own troopers, armed to feize the faid negroes; which illegal proceedings this deponent being informed of, and to prevent the ill confequences that might happen, contrived the prefervation of himself and negroes from fuch land forces; after which the governor not attaining his ends, this deponent was by his inftruments threatened to have his commiffion taken from him: And when this deponent by his attorney brought his action at common law against fir Henry Morgan for a juft debt, and of four years ftanding, he received abundance of hard words from the governor, and was ordered to withdraw his action. SAMUEL NASH. A true copy, ' PHILIP LOYD. Sworn before me, to the truth of the contents hereof, 12th January, 1680. PHILIP LOYD. THE depofition of Peter Beckford, aged thirty-feven years or thereabout, that the faid deponent was in the island of Jamaica when the cari of Carlifle arrived there, and remained in the faid ifland until the faid earl departed thence; and that the faid earl, in the time of his government, called two affemblies, and fhewed them a body of laws fent from his facred majesty under the broad feal of England, which they rejected, but yet raised an act of revenue, for the fupport of government, which the faid earl paffed; and, after the diffolution of one of the affemblies, the faid earl did first ask the speaker if he would obey the king and his government as it was now eftablished by his majefty's commiffion to the earl of Carlife; to which the fpeaker anfwered he would always obey the king; the form of government he did not understand, or to that effect. The fame queftion, or to that purpose, he asked feveral others, and fome he only afked, if they would obey the king, to which they made feveral anfwers; but all that were prefent faid they would obey the king; the faid earl further added, to the beft of this deponent's remembrance, that fuch as would not obey his majefty under this form of government were not fit to bear an office either military or civil. This deponent, further faith, he did fee a patent under the broad fea? of England, granted to the parifh of Port-Royal by fir Thomas Lynch, for a market there; and, to the best of this deponent's memory, to put a X clerk, In clerk, which the faid parish made fome advantage of; which the faid earl granted away, as this deponent was informed, to the countefs. the time of the abovefaid affembly fitting, this deponent was of the committee that were ordered to perufe the accounts of Thomas Martin, efq. receiver-general, to fee what money was then in the treafury, where was found entered in the receiver's books fo much indigo and cocoa as the cuf tom amounted to above two thousand pounds, to the best of this deponent's memory, which the faid committee had orders from the affembly to take no notice of, because they faid it was pirates goods. He this deponent was in the affembly when the faid earl came with fome of his council into their houfe, and took his chair, fetting the fpeaker by him, and would have had them debate things in his prefence. He this deponent knew of one hundred pounds paid by one John Hewit for a pardon for having two wives, fifty paid to one Ellis a fervant to the carl, and fifty to major Molefworth, a churchwarden of the puri h of Port-Royal, which fum this deponent was told the earl had subscribed towards the building of the church at Port-Royal. The faid earl asked this deponent if he thought bringing in the indigo would not be an advantage to the island, or to that effect: This deponent anfwered that he thought the proper question was, whether his majetty would be pleafed at it or not (the Spaniards being our friends). The earl faid the Spaniard had committed many depredations upon us. He this deponent, after the provoft marshal had taken into his cuftody one lieutenant-colone! Samuel Long, per a warrant under the hand of the governor, went to the faid earl and defired in behalf of the faid Long a habeas corpus, as he the faid earl was chancellor, which he refufed; then this deponent went to the chief-juítice and made the fame demand, who likewife refufed, faying the faid Long was committed for treason. He this deponent, in the time of the lord Vaughan's government, went by the command of the faid lord aboard of one captain Rymer, and declared him a pirate. He this deponent was told by divers in Jamaica that one Pochin was condemned for murder and reprieved, and had his liberty abroad. And further this deponent faith not. Jamaica, January 7th, 1680. CAPTAIN Nicholas Daniel, aged forty-fix years or thereabout, declared upon oath, that, being in company with Mr. Thomas Martin ard captain Bartholomew Sharpe, about the middle of October laft, 1679, the faid Sharp being entering a parcel of Spanish indigo which he had taken from the Spanish fhore, told Mr. Martin that they had left behind them where they took that, feveral hundred chefts more, which they could not take in: Mr. Martin replied, that if they brought it all, or if they could go again and fetch the remainder, they fhould come to no more damage than they did now; fo that they paid the cuftom of it, or to that effect; and further faith not. NICHOLAS DANIEL. Sworn at Port-Royal, Jamaica, by Captain Nicholas ABOUT five months fince, being with captain Rives and Mr. Martin at Yallow's Bay, in difcourfe, captain Rives afked Mr. Martin to tell him on what defign or where the privateers were gone; Mr. Martin told him he could not tell, but he fuppofed like fools to be knocked on the head; but if they would have taken his counfel they. fhould have gone to have fetched the reft of the indigo, which they might have done easily and made a quick return, and this was the fubftance, but I cannot tell exactly the words of his difcourfe. Twentieth May, 1680, John Lyne appeared before me, and voluntarily depofed to the truth of the above writing. JOHN LYNE. A true copy, X 2 FRANCIS HANSON. May May 6th, 1680. IN the floop Primrofe, John Griffin, mafter, from Mannatee Bay, one hundred and ninety bags of cocoa, containing about twenty-three thoufand pounds of cocoa, which parcel of cocoa captain Wilfon naval officer would not fuffer the mafter to deliver until he had acquainted the governor, and gave an order to the marshal to fee that none was delivered until he came from the governor; but at the fame time Mr. Martin, the king's receiver, was upon the wharf with a great crowd to receive the cocoa, and commanded the mafter to deliver the cocoa, and told him he would fave him harmlofs. But, when the faid Wilfon had acquainted the governor with it, the governor was angry with him, and told him that fir Henry Morgan and Mr. Martin had acquainted him with the importation of the cocoa, and that he had given leave for it; and foon after this faid Wilfon was turned out, 1679, captain Edmund Cook and his company did purfue a fmall Spanish barque and killed fome of their men about the ind of Cuba; the faid barque was laden with cocoa and brought here and entered with Mr. Martin, but the faid Cook, as he declared, was ordered not to bring the barque into the harbour, but to fend out floops for the cocoa, and to burn the barque, which was done, there being eighteen thousand pounds of cocoa. Cooke had no commiffion. In the aforementioned floop Prim rofe, at another time, was brought to the inland two thoufand pounds of cocoa. Thomas Martin demanded of all that entered indigo twenty fhillings per cheft, to allow their cntering, and bought a great quantity of the indigo for himself and others. Such proceedings as above might be proved. ΑΝ ACCOUNT OF SOME AFFAIRS IN JAMAICA, DURING THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF CARLISLE. THAT, on the first of December, 1678, his excellency, thinking fit to diffolve the affembly then fitting, fent for them, and, having patt the revenue bill, told them he did dilolve them and they were dif folved: On which they all offered to go away, but he called them all back, and told them that he had fomething to fay; which was, that many things had been faid and done in that ailembly, which did not feem to tender |