chap, in.] WEST INDIES. 97 
bell) intitled “ Candid and impartial Considerations 
on the Nature of the Sugar-trade,” which being 
equally authentic and curious, I shall present to my 
readers entire; and with the less scruple, because 
it consists chiefly of an official paper which cannot 
be abridged without injury. 
ef In 1672, king Charles thought fit to divide 
these governments, and by a new commission ap¬ 
pointed lord Willoughby governor of Barbadoes, 
St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Dominica; Sir William 
Stapleton being appointed governor of the other 
Leeward Isles, and this separation has subsisted 
ever since, the same islands being constantly insert¬ 
ed in every new governor’s patent. On the demise 
ot lord Willoughby, Sir Jonathan Atkins was ap¬ 
pointed governor of Barbadoes, and the rest of 
these islands, and so continued till 1680, when he 
was succeeded by Sir Richard Dutton, who being 
sent for to England in 1685, appointed colonel Ed¬ 
win Stede lieutenant governor, who vigorously as¬ 
serted our rights by appointing deputy governors 
for the other islands; and particularly sent captain 
Temple hither to prevent the French from wooding 
and watering without our permission, to which 
they had been encouraged by the inattention of 
the former governors; persisting steadily in this 
conduct, till it was signified to him, as we have had 
occasion to remark before, that the king had signed 
an act of neutrality, and that commissioners were 
appointed by the two courts, to settle all differences 
relative to these islands. 
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