I70 ST. HELENA 



30th Sept. Church suffered some damage by extreme heat of 



weather. Sexton appointed. Churchyard enclosure, and hedge 



of lemon trees ordered. 

 Wild goats and wild cattle. 

 2ist Oct. Church to be inspected after the next rains, boards 



cracked by the sun. 



Guard House at Spraqueses, i.e. Lemon Valley, to be repaired. 



Timber to be cut in the next adjacent place. 

 2nd Dec. Two soldiers killed in the Crane Battery by falling rocks. 



Timber viz. 240 jks. Gumwood trees to be felled in the next 



adjacent wood, that is nearest to the Fort St. James, to cover 



in the said battery — this timber was felled at the head of the 



Seine Valley vide — 24th Feb. 1678. 

 1678-79. 27 th Jan. Peter Williams, 21 lashes on his naked body at 



the Flagstaff for concealing two runaway blacks. 



Lemon trees and their fruit, order for their prcsers-ation. 

 Church by report of Mr. Wynne in need of some repair, order 



for a voluntary collection. Order that all pigs in Chappell 



Valley be penned up on the firing of alarm guns, they fouling 



the water for the shippcs. 

 Salto, a black, condemned to be hung, his hand and head 



cut off for wounding his master ; and Rowland, a black, to be 



led to the place of Saltos execution, there to receive 40 stripes 



save one on his naked body, and a pair of iron pothooks rivetted 



about his neck. 

 Page 86. Sarah Marshall to have 31 lashes on her naked body for 



scandal-Asses. 



A law against the wilful throwing or rolling down of rocks. 

 Page 85. Inquest on Thos. Green ; body taken up ; trial by touch- 

 ing the dead body ; 3 persons committed on verdict of man"^ 



slaughter. 

 Page 84. Liberty given to inhabitants of E division to build a place 



for public worship and for schools. 

 Page 104. W. Melling to ride the wooden horse with a bag of shot 



at each heel. 

 Page 105. £(> was the expense of making the new line of batteries 



before the lines at Ruperts. 



Settlers in St. Helena to have 10 acres of land and a cow 



on manr^'ing — in some cases 10 acres more and another cow. 

 Page 124. Gaming ; bowls, nine holes, nine pins forbidden. 

 Page 126. Some soldiers through intemp>crance, and ill husbanding 



their clothes to rags (?). 

 2nd Aug. 1680. Council ordered for this day could not meet till 



a week after, a ship haN-ing arrived from England. 



l^ los. od. the expense in repairing and making new the mount 



at Ruperts and the Batteries at Banks. Paid 129 dollars 



current at 5/- each. 



Women not to go on board ship without Governor's license, 



and then only in company with their husbands. 

 Page 143. School house in the E division — permission for requested 



