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ing unto such laws as your majesty has under your great seal trans- 

 mitted unto them; and that, in case of refusal, his lordship be furnish- 

 ed with such powers as were formerly given unto Col. D'Oyley, your 

 first governor of Jamaica, and since unto other governors, whereby his 

 lordship may be enabled to govern according to the laws of England, 

 where the different nature and constitution of that colony may convenient- 

 ly permit the same ; and, in other cases to act, with the advice of the 

 council, in such manner as shall be held necessary and proper for the 

 good government of that plantation, until your majesty's further orders ; 

 and that, by all opportunities of conveyance, the governor do give your 

 majesty a constant and particular account of all his proceedings, in pur- 

 suance of your instructions herein. 



AH which is most humbly submitted, Sec. 



Upon reading of which report, and full debate thereupon, his majesty 

 was pleased to approve the same ; and the right honourable Mr. Se- 

 cretary Coventry is hereby directed to prepare such suitable orders 

 and instructions as may answer the several parts and advices contained 

 in the said report. 



Robert Southwell. 



NUMBER XIII. 



Extract of a Letter from the Committee to the Earl of Carlisle. 

 After our very hearty commendation unto your lordships, we have recei- 

 ved two letters from you, the one of the 24th October, the other of the 1 5th 

 November, 1678 ; both of which gave us an account of the distaste the 

 assembly had expressed at the new frame of government, and of their 

 throwing out all the bills transmitted under the great seal ; and your 

 lordship having therein recommended unto us the speedy despatch of the 

 bills sent to Mr. Secretary Coventry, for passing them through the offices 

 here, we did thereupon take the same into our consideration : but 

 finding that they contained such clauses as we had formerly (your lord- 

 ship being present) disallowed in the laws enacted by the Lord Vaughan, 

 as most prejudicial to his majesty's rights and prerogative, one of them 

 appropriating and disposing of the quit-rents in the same terms as was 

 formerly done, so much to his majesty's dissatisfaction ; another, de- 

 claring the laws of England to be in force, which clause (your lordship 

 cannot but remember) was postponed here, upon very serious deliberation ; 

 besides divers other particulars, altogether unfit to be passed by his ma- 



