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CHAP. I.] WEST INDIES. 
But the planters, when called upon the next day to 
give satisfaction in this particular, insisted that Mr. 
Kendall, the person who had made the offer had no 
authority to undertake for them, or the inhabitants 
within the island 5 and the utmost they could be 
brought to promise for themselves was, that they 
would use their endeavours with their friends in the 
island, to settle such a revenue on the crown, as the 
circumstances of the colony would admit of, which 
they said the assembly alone w T as competent to de¬ 
termine. 
The prospect of a revenue, though distant and 
uncertain, brought forward the creditors of the 
earl of Carlisle, the patentee, who was indebted, 
it seems, at his death, in the sum of <£80,000, 
and they had no hopes of being paid but from the 
profits of his West Indian possessions. The heirs 
of the earl of Marlborough likewise put in their 
claim for the arrearage of the annuity of ,£.300, 
granted under the original compromise, which I 
have before mentioned; and the lord Willoughby 
insisted at the same time on receiving a moiety of 
whatever profits might arise during the remainder of 
the term yet unexpired in his lease. The other 
moiety, during that time, and the whole in rever¬ 
sion, w 7 as claimed by the earl of Kinnoul. 
To satisfy these several claimants, and secure a 
perpetual revenue to the crown, was a work of 
difficulty, and its accomplishment seems to have 
been the sole aim'of the King’s ministers; by 
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