APPENDIX TO Vol. III. 92, 



V. We forbid our fubjeifls, of the Proteftant, Reformed religion, 

 to give any trouble or impediment to our other ibbjccls, or their 

 flaves, in the free exercife of the CathoHc, Apoftohc, and Romith 

 reh'gion, on pain of being puniflied in an exemplary manner, 



VI. We enjoin all our fubjei^s, of what quality or condition 

 focver, to obfcrve the Lord's-day, and the holidays that are kept 

 by our fubjeds of the Catholic, Apollolic, and Romifli religion. 

 We forbid them to labour, orcaufe their (laves to labour, on thofc 

 days, from the hour of jnid-night to the following midnight, 

 whether it be in the culture of land, or manufacture of fugar, or 

 any other kind of work ; on penalty that the mailers To oflbnding 

 (hall be fubjeift to a fine, and arbitrary punifhment, and the for- 

 feiture of all (uch fugar, as well as of the (laves, detedled at work 

 by our officers [r]. 



VII. We forbid likewife any Negroe or other markets to be 

 kept on the faid days, upon the like penalties, and forfeiture of the 

 merchandizes that (hall be brought to any fuch markets; befides an 

 arbitrary fine, to be levied upon the fellers, or dealers. 



VIII. We declare all fuch of our fubje^ls, who are not members 

 of the Catholic, Apoftolic, and Romilh religion, to be incapable, 

 for the future, of contra£ling lawful marriage. 



We declare the children, born of any other pretended marriage, 

 to .be baflards ; and we will that every fuch pretended marriage be 

 held and reputed to be actual concubinage. 



IX. Free men, who have one or more children born during con- 

 cubinage with their flaves, as well as the mafters of flaves who 



" iiiomy and chViln-ii.^'' But, admitting this to Ic true, it is fo for from being matter of reproach, 

 that it rather reflcrts very great honour upon them ; for what fubjefts can better deferve the ap- 

 pellation of good citizens, than thofe who give their conllant endeavour to introduce, into the 

 ilate where they have fixed their refidence, not money alone, but population alfo; which is the 

 true political wealth of every commercial country ? And as this people never difTipate unpro- 

 iitablv ihc riches thus acquired, fo they do not confume their health and vigour in debauchery anil 

 excefs. Have not thele trugal and abllemious Ifraelitcs much greater merit, and do thev not 

 conduce far more benefit to the fociety of which they are inenibers, than all thofe profligate 

 bcin"s (an enormous multitude they are!) who, inflead ot contributing in either way to the 

 public good, do what they can towards the depopulation oi their countrv", the inipoverifiunent 

 of their families, and the abridgement ot their own contemptible lives? 



[i] In the laws enacted by king Canute, there is one which frees a (lave whofe matter had 

 obliged him to ivork on a holiday, befides punifliing the offence by a fine, or mulct, to the king. 

 " But it may be qucrtioned, whether this was the cficct of humanity, or merely ot fuperiHtioii." 



Ljitekon, Hen. II. 



The like obfcrvation may be made on the fubfequent article. 



6 B 2 AifFer 



