4o8 A. D. 1639. 



bited the exportation of wool, woolfels, woollen-yarn, fullers-earth, and 

 tobacco-pipe-clay, (now found to be of the fame nature and ufe wi,th 

 fullers-earth) by the exportation whereof, he is informed, there is a 

 great decay of the woollen manufadure. [Fa-dera, V. xx, p. 342.] 



The king abridged the extravagant authority which he had formerly- 

 granted to the clerk of the market of his houlehold, and to the water 

 bailiff. He alio revoked his charter of incoporation to the makers of 

 bricks and tiles near London and Weftminfter, as being found hurtful. 

 And ordered that the ilTues of jurors fhould not be farmed, as being a 

 grievance to many of his fubjecls. [Fa^dera, V. xx, p. 344.] 



The king ordered that an inquiry fhould be made into the conducSl: 

 of Peter Richaut merchant, treafurer of the fifliery company, concern- 

 ing opprelTions and wrongs done by him to fundry poor tradefmen deal- 

 ing with that company : to inquire alfo, whether the flock of the 

 company be diminiflied ? and if lo, how it came to be fo ? alfo to in- 

 quire into all other matters relating to the fifliery company, "and i'ato 

 the means of fettling that bufinefs, for the beft advantage of the com- 

 monwealth of our kingdoms : to the end, that upon return of the 

 laid commiflion, it may appear which way fo worthy an undertaking, 

 for the honour of us and the common good of our fubjeds, may be 

 advanced, &c. {Fcedcra, V. xx, p. 346.] 



The king comraiflioned five perfons to repair to the ifland of Bar- 

 bados, and to remove the pretended governor of it, who prefumed to 

 continue to acl as fuch, after another had been appointed by James earl 

 of Carlifle. The commiflion recites, that Barbados was efleemed one 

 of the Caribbee ifles, and a part of the proviiice of Carlifle in America, 

 granted to James Hay the late earl of Carlifle, and to his heirs. It feems, 

 that this pretended governor (Captain Henry Hawley) had only had a 

 commiflion from the king, in the beginning of this year, for treating 

 with the inhabitants of Barbados, and other iflands, concerning a mo- 

 deration to be held in the planting of tobacco, (fugar not being as yet 

 produced in any of them) and for regulating the prices thereof; ' and 

 ' for none other employment intended by us,' fays the king ; under 

 colour of which he took on himfelf the ftile of lieutenant-general and 

 governor of Barbados, &c. \Fcedera, V. xx, p. 357.] 



This year the Englifh firfl fettled on the pleafant ifland of St. Lucia, 

 within feven leagues of Martinico, feven alfo from St. Vincents, and 

 twenty-four from Barbados, being twenty- four miles in length and eleven 

 in breadth, abounding with plenty of timber, proper for houfes and 

 mills, with which the neighbouring ifles, both Englifli and French, are 

 ftiU fupplied. It has alfo plenty of fuflic and cocoa, and good harbours 

 and anchoring places. Two years after, the Englifh governor and mofl 

 of his people were murdered by the Carib natives, and the refl driven 

 out of the ifland by the infligation, as was fufpeded, of the French at 



