The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Том 2James Humphreys, 1806 |
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... town was afterwards built , with this inscription , " James King of England and this Island ; " but they began no settlement , nor made any considerable stay in a country en- tirely uninhabited and overgrown with woods ; yet it ...
... town was afterwards built , with this inscription , " James King of England and this Island ; " but they began no settlement , nor made any considerable stay in a country en- tirely uninhabited and overgrown with woods ; yet it ...
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... town , which in honour of the sovereign they denominated JAMES - TOWN ; and thus began the first English settlement in the island of Barbadoes . For some time previous to this , it had become fashionable in England , for men of high ...
... town , which in honour of the sovereign they denominated JAMES - TOWN ; and thus began the first English settlement in the island of Barbadoes . For some time previous to this , it had become fashionable in England , for men of high ...
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... towns and traders to be taxed £ .500 ster- ling . An act passed March 19th , 1684 , for this purpose , and was sent home ; but the lords of the committee for trade and plantations reported , that the commissioners of the customs with ...
... towns and traders to be taxed £ .500 ster- ling . An act passed March 19th , 1684 , for this purpose , and was sent home ; but the lords of the committee for trade and plantations reported , that the commissioners of the customs with ...
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... towns , Bridge- town , Ostins or Charles town , St. James's ( for- merly called The Hole ) , and Speight's town . Bridge town , the capital , before it was destroyed by the fires of 1766 , consisted of about fifteen hundred houses ...
... towns , Bridge- town , Ostins or Charles town , St. James's ( for- merly called The Hole ) , and Speight's town . Bridge town , the capital , before it was destroyed by the fires of 1766 , consisted of about fifteen hundred houses ...
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... town of Berwick ; and though it were true , that it is the practice of the courts of Grenada to adopt both the common and statute law of England , it was con- tended , nevertheless , that the adoption could ex- tend only to such of the ...
... town of Berwick ; and though it were true , that it is the practice of the courts of Grenada to adopt both the common and statute law of England , it was con- tended , nevertheless , that the adoption could ex- tend only to such of the ...
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Страница 34 - the prohibition was extended also to the mother country: and no goods were suffered to be imported into England, or any of its dependencies, in any other than English bottoms ; or in the ships of that European nation of which the merchandize imported was the genuine growth or manufacture. At the restoration the former provisions were continued, by statute 12 Car. II. cl 8. with this very material improvement, that the master and three-fourths of the mariners shall also be English subjects.
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Страница 302 - In the year 1760, when a very formidable insurrection of the Koromantyn or Gold Coast negroes broke out in the parish of St. Mary, and spread through almost every other district of the island, an old...
Страница 51 - People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England...
Страница 30 - ... assurance that your excellency will take such course for the collecting and gathering of the said impost, without any charge, duty or fees, as may be most for the ease of the people of this island. Provided nevertheless, That neither this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend or be construed to bar his majesty, or his said...