156 Timehri. 



November, 1674, by — Bridges tells us, — " a Mr. Burford who was tried 

 and hanged for it," but he does not tell us who Burford was ; he is other- 

 wise unknown to fame. Banister was very regular at the Council 

 Meetings, which at times, under fear of invasion by Dutch or Spanish, 

 sat from day to day ; and when he was absent one likes to think of him 

 as looking after his military duties as major-general. 



In July, 1675, the King appointed Sir Henry Morgan a member of 

 the Council in place of Banister — much, one can imagine, to the disgust 

 of Vaughan, who, of a parsimonious disposition, had little sympathy with 

 Morgan's free and easy habits. 



In the Cathedral at Spanish Town are two black marble monuments, 

 one to Banister and one to his daughter. On the former are the arms, 

 with the inscription. 



" Here Lyeth Interred the Body of Major-Generall James Bannister 

 Late Governor of Sarrenham, who departed this Life the 10th of Novem- 

 ber Ano Domi 1674 In the 50th yeare of his Age." 



On the other the arms : — Cheeky, on a Fess three Leopard's Faces : 

 Impaling a cross Flory ; and a crest a Griffin's head erased ducally gorged : 

 with the inscription. 



Here Lyeth Interred the Body of Mrs. Mary Lewis wife of Mr. 

 Samuell Lewis and Daughter to Major-Generall James Bannister who 

 departed this Life the 2d of January Ano Domi 1676-7 in the 18th 

 yeare of her Age. 



That Death might happy bee, to live learn'd I. 

 That Life might happy bee I have learn'd to Dye." 



Samuel Lewis was the father of Major John Lewis who represented. 

 Port Royal or Kingston in the Assembly from 1701 to 1725. 



By his will dated 20th August, 1674, James Banister left the whole 

 of his estate, both real and personal, "as well heere in Jamaica as else- 

 where " (excepting certain legacies) to his only son James Banister. To 

 his wife, Dorothy, he left a third of his estate for her life. To his son-in- 

 law, Lt. Henry Massie 'who had married his daughter Margaret, he left 

 £5. If she survived her husband she was to have 100,000 pounds of 

 " good merchantable muscovadoe sugar." To his son-in-law Samuel 

 Lewis, who had married Mary, the same 100,000 pounds of sugar; and 

 to his daughter Dorothy, when she reached the age of eighteen or was 

 married, also 100,000 pounds of sugar. His son James and his daughter 

 Dorothy were to be maintained out of his estate. He left his wife 

 executrix of his will and his friends Colonel Robert Byndlosse, Charles 

 Atkinson, Samuel Lewis, and flraucis Man overseers of his will, to help 

 his wife and gave them each 1,000 pounds of sugar " to buy them 

 mourning," 



