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adly. They allege the readiness of governors to use martial law, par- 

 ticularly in Sir Thomas Lynch's timej which is here contradicted, for 

 there was only an order in council for the putting it in force upon condi- 



nof any actual descent or invasion, and not otherwise ; neither was it 

 on foot really all this time here, as I am credibly informed upon gocd 

 inquiry. 



3dly. As for its being in force in my time, it was not from my effect- 

 ing, but the council advising and their desiring it ; as also the putting 

 off the courts till February, in favour generally of the planters. Then, 

 for their alleging so much to be done during the martial law, wholly at 

 the charge of the country j that it is done is true, but the charge thereof 

 they would clog the revenue bill with, amounting to twelve hundred and 

 tw:-nty-e5ght pounds, when communibus annis, the bill of impost is but fif- 

 teen hundred pounds ; of which twelve hundred and twenty-eight pounds 

 there is not yet made payment of one farthing, nor any prospect how it 

 may, since the revenue is so much anticipated from the want of money in 

 the treasury, occasioned by my lord Vaughan's letting fall the bill of re- 

 venue before his departure. 



NUMBER XIX. 



To his Excellency Charles Earl of Carlisle, captain-general, governor, 

 and commande-r in chief of his majesty 's island of Jamaica, 



The kti'mble address of the assembly of this his majesty" 's island, in answer 

 to the report of tie right honourable the lords of the committee of Tirade 

 and Plantations, made to his majesty's council-^ which ive entreat his 

 excellency may be humbly presented to his most sacred txajesty and his 

 council. 



WE, his majesty's most loyal and obedient subjects, the assembly of 

 this his island of Jamaica, cannot without infinite grief of mind read 

 the report made to his majesty by the right honourable the lords of the 

 committee for trade and plantations 5 wherein, by the relations made by 

 their lordships unto his majesty, they have represented us as a people full 

 of animosity, unreasonable, irregular, violent, undutiful, and trans- 

 gressing both the bounds of duty and loyalty ; the bitterness of which 

 Characters were we-in the least part conscious to have de?erved, we should, 



e Job, have said, l< Behold., ive are <vile : rwkat shall r we answer ? we 

 "' :;/// lay our hands upon our mouths ." 



