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<HEAD>A DECLARATION By <HI>JAMES</HI> Earl of CARLILE, LORD of the <HI>Caribee I&s;lands,</HI> or Province of <HI>Carliola.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Manife&s;ting His care of, and affection to, the good and wel|fare of the Inhabitants of the <HI>I&s;land</HI> of BARBADOES, and of all other People under His Government.</HEAD>
<P>_TO all Chri&s;tian people to whom this pre&s;ent Writing &s;hal concern, &s;endeth greet|ing. Whereas divers people have been tran&s;ported from the Kingdom of <HI>Eng|land</HI> to my I&s;land of <HI>Barbadoes</HI> in <HI>America,</HI> and have there remained a long time as Servants in great labour for the profits of other per&s;ons, upon who&s;e Account they fir&s;t were conveighed thither, expecting after their faithfull &s;ervice, accord|ing to the Covenants agreed upon at their fir&s;t entrance, there to make &s;ome advantage to them|&s;elves by &s;ettling of Plantations for their own u&s;e, but by rea&s;on of the great number of people who repaired thither, and who by the ble&s;&s;ing of God have multiplyed the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e; the land is now &s;o taken up as there is not any to be had but at great rates too high for the purcha&s;e of poor &s;er|vants: In confideration hereof, and out of a hearty affection towards the wellfare and happi|ne&s;&s;e of all &s;uch people as have left their native Countrey to &s;ettle under my Government in &s;o Remote parts, I have thought fit to declare, that each freeman who is unprovided of land, &amp; &s;hall therefore de&s;ire to go off from the <HI>Barbadoes</HI> &s;hall have a proportion of land alotted to him in my I&s;lands of <HI>Nevis Antigua,</HI> or any other I&s;land under my Command according to the Cu|&s;tome of the Countrey. And whereas Complants have been made concerning the mi&s;carriages of &s;ome of my Governors, &amp; of the oppre&s;&s;ions of the people under their charge, I &s;hall God willing &s;uddenly repaire thither&punc; and by my &s;elf, or Leivtenant Generall authorized by me, take &s;uch cour&s;e as &s;hall be for the ea&s;e and &s;atisfaction of all parties, and for the &s;ettling of all my I&s;lands in a peaceable and happie condition; and in particular, &s;eeing my I&s;land of <HI>Antigua</HI> is looked upon by divers knowing per&s;ons as a place of great concernment if it were well peopled, by rea&s;on of the convenience of Harbours which are wanting in my other I&s;lands, I &s;hall take care for a con&s;tant &s;upply of &s;hips twice every yeer, to bring Provi&s;ion from <HI>England</HI> thither, and to take of the Commodities of the Countrey there: &amp; becau&s;e divers factious people have of late endeavored to e&s;trange the affections of the Inhabitants of my I&s;lands from me, and to &s;ugge&s;t intentions of di&s;ignes by me to their prejudice: I do hereby &s;olemnly profe&s;&s;e, That the honour and glory of God, and the promoting of his wor&s;hip and &s;ervice, according to the e&s;tabli&s;hed Lawes of the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> have the fir&s;t place in my thoughts, and I do as earne&s;tly de&s;ire the happine&s;&s;e of tho&s;e people under my charge as of my &s;elf, and &s;hall not any way endeavour the advantage of my own intere&s;t further then may conduce to the &s;ettling of &s;uch differences as have already been rai&s;ed: And the removing of all doubts, &s;cruples, and jealou&s;ies, which hereafter may ari&s;e betwixt us.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under our hand and Seale, at</HI> London <DATE><HI>this</HI> 22 <HI>day of</HI> November <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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