and thence to dinner; after which no more was done this day, only in the evening the two companies of foot landed, which, by my lord's orders, I quartered in the taverns till farther directions about them.

JULY 20. The council met again, and viewed the acts my lord brought ready out of England, according to the conftitution of Ireland, which conftitution was defigned to be fet up here; and then they agreed writs fhould go out for an affembly to meet the fecond of September next.-Alfo this day a proclamation was iffued out for all officers, military and civil, to continue in their respective offices till farther order, which the earl did not alter in a long time, fo that all held their empleyments by my lord Vaughan's commiffions, at least five months after my lord Carlife arrived.

JULY 24.-They went all privately to town to fee their accommodations, which they did not like.

AUGUST 1.-They went all from Port-Royal to live at St. Jago, being faluted as they went off with all the guns, and attended at Paffage Fort with all the gentry and three troops of horfe, &c.

SEPTEMBER 2.-The affembly met according to appointment, and Heutenant-colonel Beefton was chofen fpeaker.

SEPTEMBER 13.-We had news of a general peace in Europe.

SEPTEMBER 15.-The Jersey arrived from Hifpaniola, whither the had been fent to weigh the twenty guns, which were loft when captain Knapman was caft away; which guns, by the help of captain Clark, were weighed, and now brought in. During the feffion of this affembly, there was nothing but offers made by my lord, and great preffing that we hould pass the acts that were fent over, and to accept of that form of government; which was ftill modeftly oppofed, as being contrary to the government of England, of which country we were, &c. and defired to live under those laws; therefore my lord, feeing he could not prevail, and that there was now no revenue in the country, gave us leave to Lettle the revenue for one year, which he figned, and then on the eleventh of October diffolved us.

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OCTOBER 18.--Arrived captain Spiure, who with one Nevil, about three months fince, and a hundred and fifty men, had taken Campeche, and with him he brought a prize; for all which he had his pardon, and leave to come in and fpend their plunder.

NOVEMBER. About the beginning of this month, my lord refolved to fend Mr. Atkinfon to England, to negociate about the public affairs; who being in readiness, and all his difpatches prepared, he fell fick on the fixteenth and died the twentieth of this month, and was buried at St. Jago the twenty-first.

MAY 1, 1679.--The Jerfey failed for England, and in her fir Francis Watfon.

JULY 9.-Count D'Eftrees' flect appeared before the harbour, fent four gentlemen afhore for leave to wood and water in Blue-Field's Bay, which being granted and a pilot, they failed away that evening.

JULY 12. The earl of Carlisle called the council at Port-Royal, and the fame day a council of war, who laid by the civil law, and put the martial law in execution till the tenth of Auguft, which was immediately proclaimed: About this time writs were again iffued out for an affembly to meet the ninteenth of August.

AUGUST 15.-An order of the king and council was published at PortRoyal, for the continuing of the laws made in the two lait two feffions of my lord Vaughan's affembly, till his majefty's pleasure was further known therein; and alfo a proclamation against the English cutting of any more logwood at or the Bay of Campeche.

AUGUST 19.-The affembly met, and lieutenant-colonel Beeston was again chosen speaker.

AUGUST 20.-By letters to fir Thomas Modyford and others, it was reported the inland was fold to the French, which much difcouraged all people.

AUGUST 22.-My lord fent a committee, confifting of fome of the council and fome of the affembly, to Port-Royal, to confider and report to

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him what more was fitting to be done for the fecurity of the place; for at this time we were under great apprehenfion of the French, they having many fhips and men in the Indies.

AUGUST 26.—Arrived captain Buckman from London, who brought the order from the king and council about the Irish model, with directions to my lord, that it fhould again be offered to the affembly, and that, if they refused it, he fhould govern by the governor and council till farther order.

AUGUST 27. My lord communicated these orders to the affembly. Also this day, by proclamation, all the courts in this island were adjourned to the twenty-eighth February, except that of Port-Royal, which was kept open for ftrangers.

The affembly, confidering that the circumftances they were under, of confirming or denying the Irish constitution, and that at this time there were great apprehenfions of the French attempting us; and being willing that the officers now at the council and affembly fhould be difperfed to their commands, and alfo to gain time, in hopes that might breed fome alteration, or at leaft give them leave to ftudy the point, they made ufe of the prefent danger of the French, and made an act for the impoft to continue fix months; which they presented to my lord, and desired, by their speaker, that his lordship would prorogue them for fome time, that they might take care to fecure the island, and confider of this great bufinefs; accordingly, on the twenty-ninth, his excellency figned the act for fix months, and prorogued the affembly to the twenty-eighth of October next.

And the fame day a council of war was held at St. Jago, to settle the army in case of an attack, in known orders, rendezvous, and posts.

SEPTEMBER 2.-Captain Clark returned (who had been fent on the coaft of Hifpaniola, to discover what he could of the French) and reported from fome French, that the count de Bethune was with nine men of war and two fire fhips, at Martinico, and was to join the count D'Eftrees at Petit Goaves, but their defign not known; therefore this day martial law was again proclaimed to be in force all this month.

SEPTEMBER 9.-We began to cut the graft without the breaft work at

Port-Royal, and fell to repairing and finishing what poffible of the works we could.

SEPTEMBER 22.-Arrived the Succefs frigate, captain Tyte comman der, from England, who fell fick and died the twenty-feventh, and then the command was given to his lieutenant, captain Johnson.

On the twenty-fixth a proclamation was again made, that the martial law should continue in force to the fifteenth day of October, because the danger of the French was not off, nor the fortifications finifhed.

The twenty-ninth the breaft-work was doubled with bricks, the re doubt finished as it now is, and a powder-house built in it; alfo, a little before this time, the hulk and ftore-houses at Honduras were taken by the privateers, and much indigo, and other goods, cocoa, hides, &c. was now brought in by leave, provided they entered fairly and paid the customs: Alfo much filver was brought in by the French, taken out of a Spanit barque that had fifhed it out of a wreck at Ambrofia.

On the thirtieth the Hunter, captain Tofier, was fent out to find the wreck, and to fifh up the plate, but could not meet with it; for which my lord put the pilot (Paul Abney) in prison.

OCTOBER 6.-The Succefs, captain Johnfon commander, was fent to the South Cays, to find the privateers who did not come in and enter, and bring in the indigo, &c. and pay the cuftoms.

On the eighth captain Cook's men brought in a barque with cocoa and hides, which they took from a Spaniard at Aruba, and landed all, publicly paying the cuftoms.

"The fourteenth a proclamation was again made, that the martial law fhould continue to the twenty-feventh inftant, but that the juftcies thould act in all things as ufual.

The twenty-eighth, according to the prorogation, the affembly met again, where we had many preffures from my lord to pafs the laws, and made as many delays; at length, on the fourteenth of November, we prefented him two addreffes, one in anfwer to the lords of the council of trade's report, and the other about the privateers itealing goods, and being

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allowed to bring them into Jamaica, at, the last of which he was much concerned; the particulars I refer to the aflembly's journal. In this affembly alfo, an act was made for raising thirteen hundred pounds to pay the charges on the fortifications at Port-Royal, and another to continue the impoft to March fecond, 1680; but after many meetings of committees, and waitings on the governor, and many delays, at length the whole body of laws fent from England were by degrees voted against. Notwithstanding, when my lord faw perfuafions would not do, he used threats to fend feveral to England.

And, on the first December, my lord fent for the affembly, and offered them an oath of his own invention, which he told them he expected they fhould take; but the speaker, to whom he offered it firft, told him he had often taken the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and was ready on all occafions to take them again; that he knew no other oaths impofed on his majesty's fubjects by law, and therefore would not take this, for which there was no authority; with him many refuted it, but fome few took it; and then my lord diffolved the affembly, but paffed the money bills. This day alfo came news that the Succefs was caft away at Cuba, in her fearch of the privateers, by the ignorance or mistake of captain Daniel, the pilot.

JANUARY 21, 1680.-Captain Daniel was tried by a council of war, aboard the Hunter, (where lieutenant-colonel Beefton was prefident), for lofing the Succefs, where he was ordered to receive feven lashes aboard every commiffioned fhip, thrice, one day after another, &c. as by the particulars in the trial.

APRIL 23-About this time the earl of Carlisle refolved to go to England in captain Clapp's fhip, and ordered colonel Long to go home, and intended others, but forced none else; though he said if colonel Beeston, who was then defigned to go in captain Kapman, would not go, but only pretended, he would force him to go.

And accordingly, on the twenty-fourth, he told me he was going, and defired me to come to him as foon as I arrived in England; but, after being told by fomebody that I was not in earnest, on the 17th of May he fent the attorney-general to tell me what he heard, and to tell me he expected I fhould go, and that he defired to speak with me about it; and this day, fearing colonel Long would not go, committed him

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