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is with drawn to his plantation, some thirty miles off from this town, where 

 at this juncture we have most need of council. 



Upon serious and deliberate consideration of all which, I have sent him 

 his quietus 5 and appointed Col. Robert Byndluss chief-justice in his 

 place, of whose fidelity to the king's interest I have many proofs, having 

 formerly executed the place, and was ncrw one of the judges of the su- 

 preme court. 



I have also suspended Col. Long from being one of the council, pur- 

 posing, by the advice of the council, to bring or send him, with six more 

 of the assembly, to atterrd the king and council in England to support 

 their own opinions, reasons and address, wherein they are not ordinarily 

 positive j and this I do from the council here unanimously agreeing, that 

 there is no other nor better expedient for the settlement of this govern- 

 ment to a general consent. 



NUMBER XVIII. 



Extract of a letter from the Earl of Carlisle to the Committee, 



St, Jago de la Vega, 23^ Nv<u. 1679, 

 MY LORDS, 



Mine of the tenth of September last to your lordships I hope you have 

 received j and what I therein sent your lordships, as my conjecture in 

 prospect, since the general assembly's meeting, on the 28th of October 

 last, have found to be no vain prophecy. 



Upon the assembly's meeting on that day, I, with the council, went to 

 the place where they were met, and again, in the presence of the council and 

 the assembly, commanded to be read your lordship's report of the 28th of 

 May last past made to his majesty, as also his majesty's commands to my- 

 self of the 3ist of the same; and thereupon offered to the assembly the body 

 of laws brought over under the great seal of England for thir consent; 

 at the same time declaring to them the great expediency it would be to all 

 the officers of the island, and rtaspn to persuade his majesty they were 

 another people than represented at home ; that it would induce the king 

 to gratify them in what was necessary ; and that, otherwise, they could 

 not appear but in great contempt, to the lessening of the island's interest 

 in his royal favour : and what I urged in general to them at their meet- 

 ing, I had not been wanting to press to them apart individually before it: 

 then swore them a clerk of my appointing, which they took not well, 

 alleging it was their right to choose their own clerk. I told them no j 



