A. D. 1627. ^49 



' live bulls, oxen, cows, horfes, pipe-ftaves, corn and pulle of all kinds : 

 ' but the additional duties thereon fhall not take place for any import- 

 ' ations into England. No pipe-ftaves, or wool, or fheep-fkins with the 

 ' wool, (hall be exported from Ireland without a fpecial licence : and 

 ' merchants-llrangers fliall pay one fourth part more than natives at 

 ' fiich exportations.' [Fo'/kra, V. xviii, p. 932.] 



The king again ifliied the ufual proclamations enjoining the nobility 

 and gentry to withdraw to their country feats for the keeping of hofpi- 

 tality, and againft eating flefh in lent and on other fifli days ; for the 

 feemingly idle reafons already fo often afligned. \^F<^dera, V. xviii, pp.. 

 950,961.] 



The king renewed his commifllon for the better execution of his for- 

 mer proclamation touching the ofBce of his changer and re-changer of 

 gold and filver, and for reftraining goldfmiths from culling and melting 

 down of the coin. \Fcedera, V. xviii, p. 970.] 



In a long lift of dignities and offices created in this year, there is one 

 ' for the fole making and regiftering of all manner of alTurances, inti- 

 ' mations, and renunciations, made upon any fhip or fhips, goods, or 

 ' merchandize, in the royal exchange, or other places within the city of 



* London, for thirty-one years.' \Fcedera, V. xviii,/). 987.] 



Other projedled monopolies of this year for the term of fourteen years, 

 were, 



1) ' A charter to three perfons for the fole pradice of their new in- 

 ' vention for melting iron ore, and making the fame into caft works and 

 ' bars, with fea-coal and pit-coal only. 



* II) ' A device for plowing of land without either horfes or oxen. 



' III) * For the fole ufe of a new-invented engine to make all kinds 

 ' of mills to grind and perform their wonted labour without the help 

 ' either of horfes, wind, or water, under the yearly rent of Lioo to the: 



* exchequer.' 



In the fame year King Charles is faid to have made a grant to James 

 Hay earl of Carlifle of the tine ifland of Barbados, and alfo of all the 

 other Englifh Caribbee iflands. Yet the earl of Clarendon, in one of his 

 trads, teltifies that James Ley, earl of Marlborough and lord treafurer, 

 had a prior grant thereof in this fame year, and that he afterwards in 

 1629, (as fhall be ftievv-n from the Foedera) confented to have thofe 

 iflands granted to the earl of Carlifle, upon payment of L300 per annum: 

 although the planters themfelves then infilled on the king's taking them 

 under his own immediate protedion, and on the revocation of the char- 

 ter to Lord Carlifle ; and with good reafon, as they alone had been at 

 the expenfe of planting the fame. Sir William Courten, who firft planted 

 Barbados in the reign of King James I, is faid by his fon to have been 

 three years in quiet pofTeffion of it, and to have expended L3c,ooo in 

 forts, buildings, and plantations there. How he came now to lofe ir. 



