334 TlMEHRI, 
first exhorted the people to pay to my lord and himselfe 
vizt. 20 lbs. weight of Cotton or Tobacco to my lord, and 
20 lbs. weight to himselfe per poll, for men and women, 
but cannot say for children, and saith it was pretended 
for a stocke to fortify the Island, to defend it from inva- 
sions ; that in the yeers 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, it was 
compulsively exa6led by Governour HAWLEY his brother 
and Sr. HENRY HUNCKS, and that when the tyme of 
the yeere came that Goods were ripe, the Governours 
issued forth to every ffamily with arrests upon their 
Goods not to dispose of them or carry them forth of 
their houses, till my Lord CARLILE's and the Governours 
dutyes were paid. 
CAPTAINE John ACKLAND saith, that he hath bin fivee 
tymes at the Barbadoes and hath severall tymes seene 
the dutyes at 20 lbs. to my Lord and 20 lbs. to the 
Governour per poll, paid in by bills to them they call 
the Governours Receivours : hee hath heard it was paid 
per poll, for men, women, and children : hath heard alsoe 
for suckinge children, hath seene it paid per poll, but 
knowes not howe they numbered the ffamily. And that 
he hath knowne attachments laid in the Storehowse for 
this duty, till they had made it appeare that they had 
paid the duty. Cotton and Tobacco then worth 2d. per 
pound. 
THOMAS BASTON, merchant and Cittizen of London, 
saith, that he hath bin at the Barbados too and againe 
theis many yeers, and that there was an attachment out 
at 20 lbs. per poll, for my lord laid upon goods in his 
hand. 
Captaine John Brookehaven saith, that he went to 
St. Christofers in the yeere 1628 in the ship Carlile 
