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A77776	To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Craven; John, Earl of Bath; John, Lord Berkley; George, Lord Cartret; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir John Colleton, Barronet: being proprietors of Carolina, and the Bahama islands Thomas Bulkley, a free-holder, inhabitant and merchant of New Providence (one of the said islands) humbly presenteth the following address, viz.	Bulkley, Thomas.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5408; ESTC R223154	7,876	21

in which Case Life is undesirable to a good man The Exorbitant Powers in the first f●r●going Reason said to be Confer'd by Your Lordships upon Jones were that by Commission You impowered him and by instructions directed him to appoint a Deputy to Each Proprietor according to his pleasure and every Deputy so appointed to be always a Member of the Grand Councel and of the Upper House in the General Assembly and to hold those Places of Dignity and Authority during his pleasure And he with the consent of three Deputys of his own Election and appointment to Ratify or Reject such Laws as should be chosen by the Peoples Representatives Convened in a General Assembly also to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly at their Arbitrary will and pleasure which Powers the said Jones hath corruptly used to the Subverting of the very Ends of Government in appointing Indigent Illiterate and Vitious Men to be your Deputys whereof some have been Notoriously guilty of Capital Crimes These being introduced by his favour and holding their Places duranto bene placito by their servile Compl●ance with him in his Arbitrary and oppressive Practices and Trayterous Conspiracies have furthered the Execution thereof and frustrated the good Effect of all Legal means used for limiting his Exorbitant power and Redressing the Peoples intollerable grievances under his Tyranny By the Advice and Consent of such dependent Creatures he hath procured long Intermissions undue Elections and abrupt Dissolutions of General Assemblies and thereby hath Defeated the chief Ends of the Constitution and Convention of that Supream Court viz. Enacting beneficial Laws Redressing Grievances and correcting the Exorbitances of pernitious Favorites and corrupt Ministers of State To evince the truth of what is said concerning his choice of Deputys I present Your Lordships with a Catalogue of the Names and a description of the Persons who were appointed to be Your Deputys by Cadwallader Jones in the time of his Tyrannical Government of Your said Province viz. from the 19th day of June Anno 1690. to the 16th day of April 1694. viz. Himself whose discription you have had before Bartholomew Mercier an indigent French Alien and a Robber of French Protestant Refugees John Graves a perpetual Incendiary Gilbert Ashley Bowen Clasen Allen Abbot a Pirate Timothy Rumney a reputed Papist the two last were chosen Deputys to strengthen a Conspiracy to Banish Bulkley for opposing Jones his Tyranny in a Parliamentary way Richard Holloway Daniel Jackson a Notorious Pirate Martin Cock a servant to a Punch-house-keeper Thomas Cumber an Illiterate man who could not write his own Name Thomas Peck Thomas Williams a Notorious Pirate Ashley and Clasen being sencible and sober men were displaced by Jones and Halloway avoided the same fate by going to Jamaica That the Character I have given of Jones may be Evidently verified I have inserted his Letter to Mr. Samuel Trott and the Answers thereunto also Sir Peter Colleton's Letter to Jones as a Specimen thereof Viz. A LETTER from Cadwallader Jones Governour of the Bahama Islands in America by Commission from the Right Honourable William Earl of Craven John Earl of Bath John Lord Berkley George Lord Cartret Anthony Lord Ashley and Sir Peter Colleton Barronet being Proprietors of the said Province Superscribed to Sam. Trott Esq Governour would be of the Bahamas and his Counsel in Barmudas Humbly present per Capt. Walmsley My nefarious Friend Samuel Trott Let thy Villanies and Treasonable Conspiracies rot Your little thoughts and Forging Hands Will bring you where the Gallows stands By chance a Collector but now a Projector Will Murder do to prove your self a Hector First to begin he causes Reports of Walmsley Bridge was sure of him I 'de make Mummy Great is our God and doth Commiserate Those Inprinciples that Sin do hate Your Mountaine hath brought forth a Mouse Your Petition and Faction I value not a Louse There is no danger of a Popish Successor And of the Church of England I 'le be a Professor Call your Conventicle and be Damn'd I 'le make you know in Province I stand Nassav Octob. 12 1691. Cadwallader Jones Postscript Sarra I desire no Dogs from your Island with their Families to settle here you may remember St. John in his New Jerusalem Without are Dogs Sorcers c. which I take to be Non-con's that St. John means such as you and your Subscribers which makes me use his just Title given you It s true I cannot hinder you the Land is before you but I 'le make you pay the Church Honourably by a Vestry I expect an Ordain'd Minister every day and Sarra let me tell you 't is in my power in Spight of your Mallice you have not all the Bishops in the Tower yet and more I have Escap'd being murdered by you and your Subscribers Machinations The 29th past is worse on your sides In few days a Parliament meets the Discourse of the City is That to prevent your Factious Masters of Sloops daily Robberies in our Out Plantations and to obstruct your Trade be it Enacted That any Barmuda Men coming into our Ports or Havens that cannot say the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments shall not have liberty to Trade 't is as rational as the Jews and Samaritans you the Jews daily contriving the Killing of Kings I 'le say no more of you the World Rings Nassau Octob. the 12th 1691. Cadwallader Jones Governour Jones's Accrostick on the name of Trott followeth viz. True it s said your Sisters anells shape Rough thou and Brow much the Ape Ought Sip thou shalt for thy Rebellion Tric'd I doubt not by a second Gideon C. J. An Answer to the foregoing Letter from the said Samuel Trott Collector at Barmudas the Inscription being as followeth viz. To the much Admired Cadwallader Jones Esq Capt. General and Governour of the Islands called New Providence Elutheria Exuma Cat Island and Hog Island and over all Persons therein of what Colour soever Whites Blacks or Muletto's and of all Animals and Insects of every Kind and Quality Great Sir TO you these Lines are Dedicated for having received yours dated the 12th I could do no less in gratitude than return you an answer not doubting your acceptance thereof I intended to have followed your method of Verse before Prose but considering you put me in remembrance of St. John in his New Jerusalem in return threunto I send you one of King Solomons Proverbical Ethicks viz. Answer not a Fool according to his Folly least thou be like him What I have now written may serve to settle your Windmil-Brain when you return from your Exchange Vulgarly called a Rum-Punch House The Superscription and Seal of your Letter was very pleasing to me much more the Poetical Ingenuity of your Verses and the Courtly stile of your Prose the rarity whereof my Pen is too dull to Express It exceeds Tom Thumb in Folio or Don Quixot de Sancta Delapancha the whole being so Savory that

To the Right Honourable William Earl of Craven John Earl of Bath John Lord Berkley George Lord Cartret Anthony Lord Ashley Sir John Colleton Barronet Being Proprietors of Carolina and the Bahama Islands Thomas Bulkley a Free-holder Inhabitant and Merchant of New Providence one of the said Islands Humbly presenteth the following Address Viz. WHereas by sundry papers Presented to Your Lordships for Your perusal I the said Bulkley have informed You largly and particularly of the Numerous and Highly aggravated Crimes and Misdemeanours of Cadwallader Jones late Governour of Your last named Province in and through the whole time that he presided there and of my long continued Cruel Sufferings under his Usurped Tyrannical power for my Loyalty to the King Fidelity and Zealous Service to Your Lordships and the Inhabitants of Your said Province And that after I was delivered by Law I demanded Legal Process against Jones his wicked Abettors and Agents but it was Corruptly denied to me by Nicholas Trott whom Your Lordships Commissioned to succeed Jones in the Government of the Bahama Islands and by Governour Blake and the rest of Your Judicial Officers at Carolina and presented Proposals to Your Lordships Viz. That You would put me into a Capacity by Law to Obtain speedy Justice in the Reparation of my Damages and the Condign Punishment of my barbarous Oppressors and those who by a perjurious neglect of doing Justice have promoted their Escape all which Papers I hope Your Lordships have throughly perused and duly considered and my just Expectations and Supplications as aforesaid the Reasonableness whereof I humbly offer to Your Lordships further consideration in the particulars following I. Because the Office and Exorbitant Power whereby Jones was inabled and imboldened to commit those horrible Crimes Alledged against him and to Oppress me so cruelly for my opposing him therein regularly and according to the duty of my Place and Station in the Government was Conferred on him by Commission and instructions from Your Lordships without due Examination of his fitness for discharging the dutys thereof for if You had made but a slight inquisition into his inabilitys for Government You would soon have discerned that privatively and positively he was utterly unqualified for the meanest Office of Power and Publick Trust instituted for the common benefit of humane Society being destitute of all Moral Endowments requisite thereunto and habitually propense to such Vices which to restrain from and punish for was a principal end of Erecting and Establishing Government among Men. II. Because soon after he was Instaled in his Office his Address to Your Lordships his Letters to Col. Colleton Governour of Carolina against Proprietor Southwel to Sir Robert Robinson Governour of Burmudas to Mr. Simon Musgrave Atorney General at Jamaica and to Mr. Samuel Trott Collector at Burmudas being all stuff'd with Nonsensical Rallery and nauceous scurrility manifested him to be an impudent shatter brained Idiot fitter for Bedlam or Bridewell than any place of Authority yet you continued him near four years in the Administration of that Suprem Office wherein his whole managment hath been greatly to the dishonour of Your Lordships and damage of the people inhabiting Your said Province III. Because all his barbarous and unjust dealings with me have been done by Colour of his Office and by pretended Authority from Your Lordships whose Names he hath constantly used to imbolden his Agents in the Execution of his unlawful Precepts Viz. To Imprison people without any cause detain them during his pleasure break their Houses and Rob them of their goods c. Whereby he hath Represented Your Lordships as a company of Nimrods that delight in hunting men to destruction and therefore send such beasts of prey to Rule over them IV. Because Nicholas Trott who succeeded Jones in the Government of the said Province by Commission from Your Lordships denied me my Birth-right-priviledge viz. the benefit of the Laws of England for my own relief and the Exemplary punishment of my merciless oppressors the chief of whom he preferred to places of great Dignity and Authority in the Government though guilty of and accused for Trayterous and Felonious Conspiracys Burglarys and other heinous Crimes and at the same time held me a close Prisoner denying me Bail and delaying my Tryal two months after he became Governour though I had then been hardly imprisoned under Jones his Usurpation 14 months and when I was cleared by Law and in the King's Name demanded Legal Process against Jones and Graves he permitted both to Re●ire out of the Province whereby they have Escaped Demerited-punishment and because the said Trott hath Assumed and Exercised an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Power over the Persons Libertys and Propertys of the Kings Subjects inhabiting Your said Province ever since he came to the Government V. Because through the denials of Justice by Your Lordships Ministers at Providence and Carolina I am Necessitated to leave the Place of my Setled Habitation and Trade my Lands Houses Goods and Debts of great value and to Expose my self to great Perril of Life and Liberty and to great Expence of time and mony in Traveling 3000 miles over the Seas viz. From Providence to England to spread my deplorable Case before Your Lordships to whom only Trott saith Jones is answerable for the male Administration of his Office and by the Denials aforesaid I am deprived of witnesses here viva voce to prove the matters of Fact which I have Aledged against them and for which I am bound to prossecute VI. Because they who have the disposal of Offices for Administration of Justice ought not to put into them any but such as are duely qualified and for whom they will answer the Law says Respondeat Superior which is the reason why Security is required for such Officers before they can Execute their respective Offices otherwise the Persons sustaining damage by their ignorant or corrupt Errors would be destitute of remedy whereby those Offices that are appointed for common benefit would become the most Common and only Remediles grievances VII Because Your Lordships by whom Jones Trott Blake c. were Vested with the said Offices and Exorbitant powers which Enabled and Imboldened them their Abettors and Agents to do those Acts of monstrous Cruelty and Injustice to me and whereby I have been deprived of the benefit of the Laws for my own relief and their punishment are beyond expression better able to repair my Losses and Damages than I am to bear them who have lost a Virtuous Wife frighted to Death by the Burglarious and other Terrifying Acts of Violence done by the said Jones and his Complices my own health by hard and long Imprisonment my whole Estate in Lands c. as aforesaid am put out of all manner of Employment disabled to pay my Debts and to betake my self to the Free and Publick Exercise of any Occupation for maintaining my self and Offspring or to be in any considerable degree useful in my Generation