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matter ot the greatest interest. The grant, however, is 

 exhausted, and the remaining records are, it is to be 

 feared, doomed to oblivion, unless, indeed, some one 

 " for the love of the thing" undertakes to calendar and 

 edit them — unfortunately many of the parochial registers 

 were destroyed in the hurricane of i860. 



The following notes and extra£ls (for some of which I 

 am indebted to my friend, Mr. SiNCKLER of Barbados) 

 may of course be considered as more fit for the pages 

 of a Genealogical and Historical Magazine or a West 

 Indian "Notes and Queries," than for those of the journal 

 of an Agricultural and Commercial Society, but it is 

 hoped that they may be welcome to those readers of 

 Ttmehrii who take an interest in the past history of the 

 West Indies. 



One of the earliest documents is the following agree- 

 ment, dated 19th July, 1639 : — It states that the proceeds 

 of the shipment referred to were to be applied " for the 

 ** managing of certain affairs concerning the said Island." 

 What these were, might possibly be learned from the 

 minutes of Council. Among the signatories are men 

 whose names still live in the island, such as Drax, 

 Hethersall, Dottin, Consett, (Consett's Bay), 

 Speight, (Speight's Town),&c. 



Articles of agreement made 19th July, 1639, between 

 Capt. William Hawley, Capt, William Fortescue,** 

 Capt. Thomas Gibbs,* Capt. James Holdipp, Capt. 

 George Bowyer, Edmund Cranfield, Esq., William 

 Sandiford, Esq.,** Capt. Edmund Read,* Capt. John 

 Read, Capt. James DRAX,t Capt. Philip Woodhouse, 



* Of the Council in 1651. 



** Of the Asssembly, 1651. 



t A " delinquent or disturber of the Peace," 1651. 



