A CAVALIER PLANTER IN BARBADOS. 25 
all except the horse and mayer In witness whereof we have hereunto 
set of hands this 16 day of March, An? 1643 
JONATHAN HAWTAINE 
JOHN HOLMES. 
Test. DANIEL WIGHT 
et GEO. WOOD, Notes Pub®@ 
In 1649 GERARD HAWTAINE was a witness to the will 
of Captain JOHN FLETCHER. 
Readers of “ Cavaliers and Roundheads*” will remem- 
ber how that in 1651 Sir GEORGE ASCUE with a Parlia- 
mentarian fleet summoned Lord WILLOUGHBY the Gover- 
nor of Barbados to surrender, and how the “ representative 
bodye” of the Island met together in General Assembly 
declared, resolved and professed that they would with the 
utmost hazard of their lives and fortunes defend His 
Majesty’s interest and lawful power in and to that 
Island. Among those who signed this historic document 
were some whose names are mentioned in the present 
paper such as RICHARD PEERS, WM. FORTESCUE, GERARD 
HAWTAYNE, PHILLIP BELL, HENRY HAWLEY and others. 
In the following year, 1652, the islanders surrendered 
to the Parliament and Sir GEORGE AYSCUE became 
Governor. GERARD HAWTAYNE with others, accepted 
the new régime and he continued to own property in the 
island for some years after. 
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER of Wimborne, Saint Giles, 
Dorsetshire, one of the most prominent charaéters of 
that period of English History which embraces the 
reign of CHARLES I, the Commonwealth and the Resto- 
ration, and who had fought for the King and then against 
him, had taken a leading part under CROMWELL and after- 
wards against his brother RICHARD, and whom CHARLESII 
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