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The present state of Jamaica with the life of the great Columbus the first discoverer : to which is added an exact account of Sir Hen. Morgan's voyage to, and famous siege and taking of Panama from the Spaniards.
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Wing P3268; ESTC R1042
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are hereby protected until furthe Order of which the Provost Marshal is to take notice of at his peril C. Atkinson Cl. C. Sir Thomas Modyford Baronet Governour of His Majesties Island of Jamaica Commander in Chief of all His Majesties Forces within the said Island and in the Islands thereunto Adjacent Vice Admiral to his Royal Highness James Duke of York in the American Seas To Admiral Henry Morgan Esq Greeting WHereas the Queen Regent of Spain hath by her Royal Shadula dated at Madrid the 20th of Apr. 1670. Commanded her respective Governours in the Indies to publish and make open Wars against our Soveraign Lord the King in these Parts And whereas the Col. Pedro Baijonaii billa uneba Captain General of the Province of Paragnay and Governour of the City of St. Jago de Cuba and its Province hath executed the same and lately in a most Hostile and barbarous manner landed his men on the North side of this Island and entred a small way into the Country firing all the Houses they came at killing or taking Prisoners all the Inhabitants they could meet with and whereas the rest of the Governours in these Parts have granted Commissions for executing the like Hostility against us and are diligently gathering Forces together to be sent to St. Jago of Cuba their General Rendezvous and place of Magazine and from thence as the most opportune place to be transported for a thro Invasion and final Conquest as they hope of this Island for prevention of which their mischievous Intentions in discharge of that great trust which His Gracious Majesty hath placed in me I do by vertue of full Power and Authority in such Cases from his most Excellent Majesty and his Royal Highness James Duke of York His Majesties Lord High Admiral derived unto me and out of the great confidence I have in the good conduct courage and fidelity of you the said Henry Morgan as also of your great Experience you have in Marshal Affairs both by Land and Sea and by the advice and consent of His Majesties Council constitute and appoint you the said Henry Morgan to be Admiral and Commander in Chief of all the Ships Barques and other Vessels now fitted or hereafter shall be fitted for the publick Service and defence of this Island and also of the Officers Souldiers and Seamen which are or shall be put upon the same requiring you to use your best endeavours to get with the Vessels into one Body or Fleet and cause them to be well Man'd fitted arm'd and victualled and by the first opportunity wind and weather permitting to put to Sea for the Guard and Defence of the Coast of this Island and of all Vessels trading to or about the same and in order thereunto to use your best endeavours to surprize take sink disperse and destroy all the Enemies Ships or Vessels which shall come within your view and also for preventing the intended Invasion against this place You are hereby further Authorized and required in case you and yout Officers in your Judgment find it possible or feazable to Land and attain the said Town of St. Jago de Cuba or any other place belonging to the Enemies where you shall be informed the Magazine and Stores for this War are laid up or where any Rendezvous for their Forces to Imbody are appointed and there to use your best endeavour for the Seizing the said Stores and to take kill and disperse the said Forces And all Officers Souldiers and Seamen which are or shall be belonging to or Embarque upon the said Vessels are hereby strictly enjoyned both by Sea and Land to obey you as their Admiral and Commander in Chief in all things as becometh them and you your self are to observe and follow all such Orders as you shall from time to time receive from His most Excellent Majesty his Royal Highness or my self Given under my Hand and Seal of Arms this 22d of July and in the 22d year of our Soveragin Lord King Charles the Second Anno Dom. 1670. By Command of his Excellency Thomas Modyford Cary Helier Regist of the Admiralty Instructions for Admiral Henry Morgan Esq delivered him the 2d of July 1670. together with his Commission 1. YOU will with these Instructions receive my Commission which you are enjoyned with all Expedition to publish and put in due Execution according to the full extent and import of the same for the accomplishing whereof you shall have all the assistance this Island can give you 2. You are to make known unto me what strength you can possible make what your want may be that on a due Calculation of both we may supply you with all possible speed 3. You are to take notice and advise your Fleet and Souldiers that you are upon the old pleasing Account of no purchase no pay and therefore that all which is got shall be divided amongst them according to accustomed Rules 4. In case you shall find it prudential as by your Commission you are directed to attain St. Jago of Cuba and that God blessing you with Victory you are hereby directed in case you do it without any considerable hazards to keep and make good the place and Country thereabout until you have advised me of our success and received my farther Orders touching the same lest your sudden quitting and their as sudden returning beget us new work and put us on new charges and hazards for the second defeating 5. In order to this you are to proclaim mercy and enjoyment of Estates and liberty of Customs to all the Spaniards that will submit and give assurance of his Loyalty to His Majesty and Liberty to all the Slaves that will come in and to such as by any good service may deserve the same you are to give notice to their fugitive Masters Plantations to be divided amongst them as rewards for the same make them sufficient Grants in Writing both for their Liberties and Estates reserving to the Crown of England the fourth part of the produce to be yearly paid for the yearly maintenance of such Forces as shall defend these parts 6. In case you find that course to take approveable effect you are then as much as will stand with the same to preserve the Houses Sugar-works and Canes but if otherwise it appear to you that in reason you cannot make good the place for any long time and that the Spaniards and Slaves are deaf to your Proposals you are then with all Expedition to destroy or burn all Habitations and leave it as a Wilderness putting the Men-Slaves to the Sword and making the Women-slaves Prisoners to be brought hither and sold for account of your Fleet and Army such of the men also that cannot speak Spanish Or any new Negro you may preserve for the same account or if any Ships present to carry them for New-England or Virginia you may send them all on the same Account 7. You are to enquire what usage our Prisoners have had and
one And in the end of his Government Land was risen to five times the value it was at in the beginning Col. Tassel and Mr. Rogers at his command run a Chain round the Island An exact Mapp and Survey was sent home by my Lord Vaughan in his time were abundance of Cattel Imported from Cuba which brought down their Price from 12 to 14 l. per Head to 4 and 5 l. In his time Fairs and Markets were Erected at St. Jago Liguania Port-Royal c. Sir Thomas Linch remitted to the Kings principal Secretary of State a large and exact State of the Government of Jamaica of the Church the Laws the Militia and Revenue which was in brief thus His Majesty is Soveraign Lord and Proprietor of this Island in all Writs Commissions and Grants He is stiled King of England c. and Lord of Jamaica the Governour Represents His Person and is invested with his Power being enabled by his Commission under the Great Seal and directed by his Instruction how to Govern and it is alwaies during his Majesties pleasure Here 12 Councellours are chosen by the Governour and Constituted in all Emergencies and Causes like the King's Councel here the which they Resemble and the House of Lords because they Sit with the Assembly the Governour cannot suspend them without giving Advice to the Principal Secretary of the Cause This Government by practice as well as order from His Majesty is Assimulated as near as possible to that in England which renders it grateful to the People who believe they ought to enjoy their Property and Native Right where they are under the King's Dominion so nothing be inflicted on them but by the course of Law nor taken from them but by Acts themselves have consented to Therefore they have by His Majesties Order in Jamaica Assemblies that consist of 32 Persons chosen indifferently by the Freeholders of the 14 Parishes In these Assemblies the Governour has a Negative Voice he Calls Prorogues and Dissolves them at pleasure the Governour the Councel and the Assembly are invested with the Legislative Power and are Convened to make some little Municipal Laws proper to the usage of the Island about Governing Servants Slaves Officers High-waies Church Militia but chiefly to raise Money for the support of the Government What Laws they make are to be sent into England and to be of force but for two years unless the King consent then perpetual unless Revoked as they were made There is but seven Churches in the Island that is one at St. Davids Liguania Port-Royal St. Jago St. Johns and Vere The Governour seems to be the King's Deputy or Bishop of London's Suffragan for he Presents and Inducts and the Parsons being admitted every Parish is bound to allow 100 l. per annum at the least Pot-Royal 200 l. St. Jago 130 l. by Act of the Assembly made in Sir Thomas Linch his time when only these Parishes above-named were supply'd The Governours Residence was at St. Jago more within the Land and easier for People to apply themselves to him he named or appointed all the Officers only such as the King made under the Great Seal of England as the Secretary of the Island that makes all the publique Dispatches keeps the Office of Inrollment And the Marshal who is the Executive Officer of Justice in the nature of a Sheriff Usher of the Black-Rod and Jaylor for the Administration of Justice and better Government of the Parishes There is Sessions of the Justices Quarterly held at Morant Liguania Port-Royal St. Jago St. John Clarendon St. Elizabeth every of these Precincts have a particular Custos Rotulorum appointed who with the Justices and other Officers Present Reform Examine and punish all Crimes Disorders and Misdemeanors that are within their Cognizance by the Laws of England or those of the Island All Pleas of the Crown and Civil Causes are heard and Determined in the Grand Court that Sits Quarterly at St. Jago and thither Errours and Causes are brought from the Inferiour Courts this being like the Kings-Bench Court of Exchequer and Assizes in England In some extraordinary Cases the Governour Grants Commissions of Oyer and Terminer The Governour is Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal of the Island which the King sent by Sir Charles Littleton to my Lord Windsor It 's a Cross charged with four Pines the Reverse his Majesty in his Throne an Indian kneeling and presenting him All publique Commissions and Grants are seal'd with this Seal To every Planter the Governour Grants Thirty Acres per Head for which he gives his Warrant then the Surveyor of the Precinct within which it lies runs it out and returns it to the Clerk of the Pattents which draws the Grant so 't is held of the King in Common and pays for what Sir Thomas Modyford Granted 25 s. per 1000. for what Sir Thomas Linch Granted a half penny per Acre By an Act of the Assembly an Office of Inrollment is Erected and kept by the Secretary where the Pattent and all Deeds and private Writings are Recorded to prevent Law-suits and fraudulent Conveyances and is in the nature of a Registry All Actions at Law between Neighbours are tryed in the Inferiour Courts which are in the nature of Court Barons here There 's one at Morant Liguania Port-Royal St. Johns Clarendon St. Elizabeth and the North side each Court has its Judge 12 Assistants Clerk Marshal and any person may plead his own Cause They hold Pleas of any sum under 20 l. and of greater sums when they take a Justicias out of the Chancery which the Governour grants of course and here all Appeals with the assistance of some of the Councel that sit as the Probate of Wills Licences for Marriages c. are dispatch'd in the Secretarys Office and the Governour seems to be in the nature of Judge of the Prerogative Court At Port-Royal is establisht a Naval Office that takes care of the Entrys dispatches of Vessels and the observance of their Acts of Navigation The Governour is Vice Admiral to his Royal Highness and has a Commission to Command all his Majesties Ships that come to the Island and likewise a large Commission to Erect Courts of Admiralty and exercise all those Maratime powers his Royal Highness hath so there 's at Port-Royal a Judge-Admiral with all the needful Officers that proceed in the Court according to the forms of Admiralty used here and in other parts The Militia is Commanded by the Governour according to the power he Reigns from His Majesty and the Laws of the Country for there 's a particular Act that appoints the time of Mustering the Persons the Arms aad the Places of Rendezvous Here 's no Souldiers paid by the King all the Officers are made by the Governour At St. Thomas and St. Davids is one Regiment another at St. Andrews Port-Royal St. Catherines St. Johns Clarendon St. Elizabeth and North side and in every one of these Regiments is one Troop of