Papers relating to the early History of Barbados 
and St. Kitts. 
Annotated by N. Darnell Davis. 
|N the 15th, 17th, 19th and 26th of March and 
on the 9th of April 1647, a Committee of the 
House of Commons took the statements of 
several witnesses in respect to the grievances of the 
colonists of Barbados, against the proprietary rights 
claimed by the Earl of Carlisle. The Committee sat in 
Great Palace Yard, "in Sir Abraham Williams' house 
there." Mr. Miles Corbett, who was afterwards 
executed as a Regicide, was the Chairman. He is said 
to have taken down the examinations with his own hand. 
If these original depositions are in existence they must 
be searched for in the muniment room of some country 
house, for the fire of 1834 destroyed the records of the 
House of Commons. Happily, notes of the several 
examinations have been preserved in the Bodleian, and 
in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. It is from 
the archives of the latter that the following Breviat is 
taken. 
From MSS.) G. 4, 75, in the Library of Trinity College, 
Dublin, 
Breviat of the Evidence given in to Committee of the 
House of Commons by the Petitioners against the 
Earl of Carlisle's Patent for the Caribee Islands, 
FIRST PLANTACION OF BARBADOES. 
Capt. Henry Powell saith, that in Anno. 1626, he 
went to Barbadoes in the shipp William of London ot 
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