8o TlMEHRI. 
The earlier name of Kill-Devil * seems to have survived 
in North America for some years, as GEORGE WARREN 
in his Description of Surinam, which was published in 
London in 1667, says, in his account of the Commodities 
of that Colony : " Rum is a spirit extracted from the 
" juice of Sugar-canes, commonly twice as strong as 
" brandy, called Kill-devil in New England, whither it is 
" sold at the rate of twelve pounds of sugar per gallon.^f 
So early, however, as the 3rd of July 1661, the word 
Rum is used in the Orders of the Governor and Council 
of Jamaica J to which colony many Planters had by that 
time removed from Barbados, carrying with them their 
skill in sugar-making; and, by 1675, not only had the 
word itself come into use in the Bermudas, but it was even 
found necessary to pass a Law there on the 23rd of June in 
that year to prohibit the making of " unwholesome liquor 
called Rum," under a penalty of -£20 for each offence. 
As regards the word Rumbullion § itself, Halliwell, 
in his Dictionary oj Archaic and Provincial Words, 
* Writing in the reign of Queen Anne, Oldmixon says : — " Run-^ 
" which is the Kill-Devil mentioned by Ligon ; and a mean spirit, that 
" no Planter of any Note will now deign to drink ; his cellars are better 
" furnished. ' (p. 133). In another place (p. 137), he tells how the gen- 
tlemen of Barbados of that day disposed of Madeira : " Some of them 
" have drunk their five and six bottles a day, and held it on for several 
" years. Sweating is an admirable relief to them in this case and has 
"been practised by many with success." — "The British Empire in 
"America;" Second Edition, London, 1741. 
f Osborne's Edition of the Harleian Collection of Voyages and 
Travels : London, 1745, vol. II., p. 927. 
Mr. Edward Eggleston, the American Antiquary, writing of the 
Meats and Drinks of the North American Colonists, at that period, says : 
" Rum or Kill-Devil, as it was everywhere called, was rendered plentiful 
" by the trade with the West Indies and by the New England stills." — See 
" The Colonists at Home", p. 884 ; " Century Magazine." April 1885. 
t Calendar of State papers, Colonial series, 1661 to 1668, p. 42. 
§ Akin to Rumbulion, apparently, is the word Rumballiach, respeft- 
