16 HISTORY OF THE [book iii. 
These people landed on the fifth of July, 1628, 
at which time Courteen’s settlement was in a very 
promising condition ; but Wolferstone declared it 
an encroachment and usurpation, and being sup¬ 
ported by the arrival of Sir William Tufton, who 
was sent out as chief governor by lord Carlisle, in 
1629, with a force sufficient for the maintenance of 
his pretensions, he compelled the friends of Cour- 
teen to submit 3 and the interests of the latter were 
thenceforth swallowed up and forgotten.* 
The facts which I have thus recited have been 
related so often by others, that an apology might be 
necessary for their insertion in this work, were it 
not, that by comparing one account with another, 
I have been enabled to correct some important er¬ 
rors in each. And the claim of the earl of Carlisle, 
having originally introduced and established the very 
heavy internal imposition on their gross produce, 
to which the planters of this and some of the 
neighbouring islands are to this day liable, I have 
thought it necessary, to be particular and minute, 
in tracing the claim itself from the beginning. In 
what manner it produced the burthen in question, 
and how Barbadoes reverted from a proprietary 
to a royal government, I shall now proceed to 
relate. 
* In this year, Sir William Tufton gave one hundred and forty 
grants of land, comprizing in the whole 15,872 acres; and on the 
23d of February, 1630, he passed divers laws, and among others, 
one for dividing the island into six parishes; 
