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jesty: we have, withal, perused the several letters which your lordship had 

 written to Mr. Secretary Coventry, in relation to your government : and 

 as for the laws, we could not advise his majesty to proceed in any othtr 

 manner, than by giving power to call another assembly, and to offer unto 

 them the same laws your lordship carried over, as being the most usefully 

 framed and settled for the good of the island and his majesty's service-; 

 and, that in case of refusal, you might be enabled to govern according 

 to commissions and instructions given unto former governors, as yoin- 

 lordship will more fully understand by our report unto his majesty, and 

 the order of council thereupon, to which we refer your lordship, as set- 

 ting forth at large the grounds and reasons inducing the resolutions his 

 majesty has now taken. 



NUMBER XIV. 



Extract of a letter from the Earl of Carlisle to Mr. Secretary Coventry* 



St. Jago de la Vega, $oth Aug. 1679. 



Your packet by captain Buckingham, having inclosed his majesty's 

 letter of the 3131 of May last, and an order in council of the a8th of May, 

 1679, together with the animadversions of the council upon several points 

 of the 22d of May last, and two letters from yourself, I received the 

 26th inst. at night. The next morning I read them in council. The as- 

 sembly then having sat some seven days, to renew the bill for a revenue, 

 the last being just expiring, I sent for the general assembly, and read the 

 order of council and the king's letter thereupon to them, which I hope 

 will have some good effect ; but they came in as good time so much con- 

 trary to their expectation. I herewith send you a copy of their address 

 thereupon, wh'ch they presented to me the 28th; and rinding them net- 

 tled and warm, I thought it discretion to let them take time to digest their 

 thoughts j and, having continued the revenue bill for six months longer 

 from the ist of September next, I passed it, and then prorogued them till 

 the 28lh of October following. 



NUMBER XV. 



C&py of a "vote of the Assembly, Aug. 22, 1679. 



DIE GENERIS. 



The committee appointed to examine Mr. Martyn's accounts reported, 

 that Mr. Martyn, appearing before them, said, that my lord had ordered 

 him to come and tell them, that, both fiom the king and from my lord, 



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