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The conduct of the lord chancellor Clarendon 
in this affair, who indeed appears to have been 
the person chiefly consulted in it, was afterwards 
thought so justly reprehensible, as to give occasion 
to the eighth article of his impeachment by the 
An ACT for settling the Impost on the Commodities of the Growth of this 
Island ; passed the 12th of September, 1663 .-—No. 36. 
Whereas our late Sovereign Lord Charlie? the First, of blessed 
memory, did, by his letters patent under the great seal of England, 
grant and convey unto James Earl q>f Carlisle and his heirs for ever, 
the Propriety of this island of Barbadoes ; i^nd his sacred majesty that 
now is having by purchase inyested JiimSjelf in all the rights of the said 
earl of Carlisle, and in all other rights which any other person may 
claim from that patent, or any other ; and thereby, more immediately 
and particularly, hath taken this island into his royal protection. 
And his most excellent majesty having, by letters patent under the 
great seal of England, bearing date the twelfth of June, in the fif¬ 
teenth year of his reign, appointed his excellency Francis Lord Wil¬ 
loughby of Parham, captain-general and chief governor of Barbadoes 
and all the Carribbee islands, with full power and authority 10 grant, 
confirm, and assure to the inhabitants of the same, and their heirs, 
for ever, all lands, tenements, and hereditaments under his majesty’s 
great seal appointed for Barbadoes and the rest of the Carribbee 
islands, as, relation being thereunto had, may and doth more at large 
appear. And whereas, by virtue of the said earl of Carlisle’s patent, 
divers governors and agents have been sent over hither, with authority 
to lay out, set, grant, or convey in parcels the lands within this island, 
to such persons as they should think fit 3 which was by them, in their 
respective times, as much as in them lay, accordingly performed. And 
whereas many have not their grants, warrants, and other evidences for 
their said lands, and others, by reason of the ignorances of those, 
want sufficient and legal words to create inheritances in them and their 
heirs, and others that never recorded their grants, or warrants, and 
Others that can make no proof of any grants or warrants they ever had 
