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Fourthly, on the extinction of those several in¬ 
cumbrances it was stipulated, that the whole re 
venue, subject to the charge of £. 1,200 per an¬ 
num to the governor, should be at the disposal of 
the crown. 
On these terms it was understood that the pro¬ 
prietary government was to be dissolved, and that 
the planters were to consider themselves as legally 
confirmed in possession of their estates; and to car¬ 
ry into effect this important point, on which the 
whole arrangement depended, (the grant of a per¬ 
petual revenue by the assembly), lord Willoughby 
returned to his government in 1663. 
It is not wonderful that the planters, on his lord¬ 
ship’s arrival, though devoted to the interests of 
the crown, should have loudly murmured at the 
conduct and determination of the British govern¬ 
ment in the progress and conclusion of the whole 
business. Clarendon himself confesses, that the 
grant to Carlisle was voidable by law. The king 
therefore laid them under no great obligation in ob¬ 
taining a surrender of it. Many of the planters 
had been obliged to quit their native country in 
consequence of their exertions in support of the 
royal cause during the civil war; by the late settle¬ 
ment, they perceived a regard expressed towards 
every interest concerned but their own; and the 
return which they met with, both for their former 
services, and also for augmenting the trade, reve¬ 
nue, and dominion of the parent state by’their re~ 
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