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VII. That the said late Governor would have had the said Expedition against St. Augustine begun and undertaken before the War with Spain was proclaimed here; & this was vehe- · mently urged by his interest in the said Assembly ; but with much ado, being put to the vote, was carried in the Negative. And when at last the Expedition was ordered, the management of the said late Governor was such in all it's steps, particularly in rela- tion to his shameful retreat, & burning the Country's Vessels, that we are ashamed to mention the same, till we have a free Assembly, before which the matter may be fairly tried, which is
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the only thing the said late Governor & his adherents are most afraid of.
VIII. That in the said late Assembly, the Constitutions sent by Major Daniel were offer'd for their passing, urg'd with great strength of reason for to have them pass'd by Mr. Ash; but they were opposed by Mr. Trott, Mr. Howes & others, the said Gover- . nor's Creatures, & several reflecting Words used by the said Trott & Howes concerning them, exposing the Constitutions as ridiculous and void in themselves; thereby endeavouring (not- withstanding Your Lordships care of us) to keep the people in an unsettled condition, that from time to time they might the more easily be imposed on by them.
IX. That after the People returned from St. Augustine, the time for the said Assembly to meet, according to the last Proro- gation, was just at hand; when they met, they went upon the Inquiry of the charges the Country had been at in the said Expe- dition, and were upon debate for the finding out ways and means for the payment of the Country's debts, for securing the Colony, for the settling of Elections for the future, and for granting as much freedom to the French and other Aliens as could be granted by the Assembly, or the French reasonably expect. A Bill for the better regulating Elections, passed the lower House twice, and was sent up to the said Governor & Council, where it was rejected without so much as a Conference ; upon which several of the Members, jealous of their Privileges, & being so ordered by those that sent them, left the House, first entering their Protesta- tion, a Copy of which Mr. Ash has to shew Your Lordships & to which we refer you.
X. But what we have yet to represent to Your Lordshs. makes very deep impressions on us, and is not to be thought on by us, but with the greatest regret & concern. For altho, the Mem- bers of the late Assembly, who protested and did leave the House as aforesaid (hoping that the next day they might find things in better order, and some temperating means found out, which might have given some tolerable assurance of having their Libertys secured) went every one of them to the House on the morrow & frankly offer'd to sit longer, if the rest of the Assembly would join with them to assert their rights ; but instead of any compliance, they were abus'd, revil'd, and treated with the most reflecting language imaginable, very unbecoming an Assembly. And we further represent to Your Lordships, that in a day or two after such abuse given to them in the House, several of the said Mem- bers, viz. : the said John Ash, Esq., Landgrave Thomas Smith, and others were assaulted & set upon in the open Street, without any provocation or affront by them given or offered. The said Thomas Smith was set upon by Lieut. Col. George Dearsby, who with his Sword drawn, and the point held at the said Smith's belly swore he would kill him, and if he had not been prevented, would 39
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have done the said Smith some considerable mischief, to the endan- gering of his life. The said John Ash walking along the Street, was assaulted by a rude, drunken, ungovernable rabble, headed, en- courged & abetted by the said Dearsby, Thomas Dalton, Nicho- las Nary, and other persons Inhabitants who set upon the said Ash, used him villanously & barbarously: and that Evening, when he the said Ash was retired into a friend's chamber for security, the same armed multitude came to the House where the said Ash was, & demanded him down, assuring him at the same time that they would do him no hurt, but only wanted to discourse with him ; upon which assurance he came down to them ; who notwithstand?, being encouraged and assisted by Captain Rhett & others drew him by force and violence on board his the said Rhett's ship, reviling & threat'ning of him as they drag'd him along ; and having gotten him on board the said Rhett's ship, they some- times told him they would carry him to Jamaica, & at other times threatn'd to hang him or leave him on some remote Island.
XI. That the said late Governor had the same way (immedi- ately before the Riot began) treated a great many of the persons conserned therein, and used such expressions to them, as gave them, next their Drink, the greatest encouragements for what they acted, by telling them that the Protesting Members would bring the people on their Heads for neglecting to pay the Country's debts, which if it sh". happen he knew not who could blame them ; in the mean time he thanked them for their close adherence to him in all his concerns. And after the riot began (of part of which he was an Eye-witness) having first drank with some of them, he with- drew himself out of the way, thereby giving them greater encou- ragement to proceed in their tumultuous practises, and by example and absense discouraging the inferior officers from executing their Duty.
XII. That whilst the said riot continued, which was four or five days, Landgrave Edmond Bellinger, who was a Justice of the Peace, there being no other to be seen that understood his office, went out to suppress & record the aforesaid riot; but the rioters no sooner saw him than they called him all the opprobrious Names they could think of, and the said Rhett came up to him & struck him over the Head with his cane, & continued beating & striking of him for a considerable time, as by the said record here- with sent your Lordships will more fully appear.
XIII. That the said rioters beat and abused Mr. Joseph Boone & put him in danger and fear of his life, without any Provocation by him given or offered; & that for four or five days successively, & at other times after, the said rioters unusually armed & wea- pon'd to the great terror of the people, frightned & terrified per- sons, that they were forced to leave the Town, their Affairs & Interests exposed to the mercy of a licentious rabble.
XIV. That some of the said rioters, whilst the riot was at the Church, went one night to the House of John Smith, a Butcher
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in Charles Town; & there being a Woman big with child in the said House, they with force opened the Door, threw her down, & otherwise misused her, that she brought forth a dead child with the back and skull broken.
XV. That the said John Ash, Thomas Smith, James Byres, Joseph, Boone & others, complained to the said late Governor & his Council, setting forth the abuses & barbarous usages they had met withal from the aforesaid rioters, & the danger they were yet in, for that the said rioters were still in arms &c. but they met with no other satisfaction from them, than that the said late Governor . shifted off the matter, by saying it was a business fit for a Justice of the Peace; & being asked by James Byres, whether or not he looked on himself, as Governor, obliged to keep the Peace of the Province ? he replied that was a Question he was not obliged to answer.
XVI. That before the next Sessions of the Peace holden for the said Province, Sir Nathaniel Johnson was proclaimed, & took upon him the Government, & then Mr. Trott had a Commission to be Judge, and the said late Governor was made Attorney General, so that it was in vain to expect any relief or remedy here. However, the said Edmond Bellinger did what in him lay to have the said riot inquired into, gave in the Record thereof to the Bench, & some of the Grand Jury urg'd to have it presented, but to no purpose, for some of the Abetters of the rioters being of the Jury, & making Friends there, stopt the whole proceeding.
XVII. We further represent to Your Lordships, that contrary to the rights & priviledges which we ought to enjoy, the last Election of Members to serve for Berkly County was managed with greater injustice to the Freemen of this Province than the former. For at this last Election, Jews, Strangers, Sailors, Ser- vants, Negroes, & almost every French. Man in Craven & Berkly County came down to elcet, & their Votes were taken, & the Persons by them voted for were returned by the Sheriff, to the manifest wrong & prejudice of other Candidates.
Things standing with us, as is before faithfully represented to Your Lordships, we thought it our duty, since we can have no remedy or relief in Carolina, to apply our selves to Your Lord- ships, whose Paternal care & concern for us, we question not, will be signally evidenced & extended unto us upon such occasions, & in such extremities : For when once onr lawful Rights & privileges are denied us, when Foreigners & Strangers shall make our laws, when we can have no protection from those who ought, & are en- trusted by Your Lordships, to see the Laws executed ; when, in a word, Force is made the Arbiter of all differences, and all things redneed to a State of confusion, it is surely a time, if ever there be one, for a People to complain : & miserable are those Subjects who must be hectored & domineered over by their Fellow-Sub- jeets, even by those who have hardly any other way to support their decayed Fortunes, but at the expense of the Publick. It
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may be worth your Lordships while to refleet what might have been the occasion, that so few persons of interest, honor & eduea- tion come amongst us, & that good people go, & are going from us, when the Colony is in a thriving condition ; certainly it is be- cause the English Liberties, that all her Majesty's Subjects in all other places in her Dominions justly elaim, are notoriously trampled on, to the great discouragemt. of Settlers. As to the French, they have hitherto lived peaceably, & with due encour- agement amongst us ; but when we see & consider that they are · often made tools of & imposed upon, & persuaded by ill-designing Persons here, to carry on sinister Designs, to the general disad- vantage of the Country, & how easily they are drawn into Errors by reason they have not a right understanding of our Language, & are ignorant of our Laws, we can't imagine that we do them any hurt, by making good and wholesome Laws for us & them, since we oblige them by no other Laws whatsoever, or upon any account, than what we our selves are obliged by, & live under. What then have we to entreat for & pray of Your Lordships ? Nothing less, than that Your Lordships would be pleased to take all and singular the premises into your serious considerations, to settle & establish the peace of this Colony on such a sure Foun- dation, that it may be beyond the Wit and Maliee & out of the power of ill-designing Men to disturb it for the time to come. And lastly we, on behalf of ourselves & Her Majesty's Liege Subjects, Inhabitants of this Province, do more especially pray & desire Your Lordships, that you would be pleased to give direc- tions for calling a free General Assembly, which will undoubtedly assist Your Lordships to redress & remove the Grievances afore- said, settle the peace & prosperity of this Colony & procure that cheerful obedience which ought to be rendered to Your Lordships under her present Majesty ; carrying with it the offer of our fortunes & best endeavors for her Majesty's & Your Lordships honors, as a real testimony of our thankfulness.
May it please Your Lordships,
All the Complaints & Grievanecs above exprest, cannot be supposed to be personally known &.proveable by every of us the Subscribers of the same (tho there be none of us, but to our sad experience can witness too many of them) but we make no doubt, when Your Lordships shall order such a method for enquiry into the truth of the premises, as may be free, without partiality & brow-beating of the persons to be examined thereon, they will be made as evident, as that the Sun at noon shines in our Hemi- spherc.
That Your Lordships may long & prosperously live, is the Prayer of, may it please Your Lordships, Your Lordships most humble & most obedient Servants.
Signed by above 150 of the
26 June, 1703.
Principal Inhabitants.
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To the Right Hon : the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliam'. assembled.
The Humble Petition of Joseph Boone, Merchant, on behalf of himself & many other Inhabitants of the Province of Carolina & also of several Merchants of London, trading to Carolina & the neighbouring Colonies of Her Majesty in America.
Sheweth to Your Lordships,
That the late King Charles II., by his Charter, under the great Scal of England, bearing date the 24 of March, 1663, did grant to Edward Earl of Clarendon, then Lord High Chancellor of England, George Duke of Albemarle, William Lord Craven, John Lord Berkley, & others, their Heirs & Assigns, all that Tract of Land in North America, commonly called Carolina, to be held of the Crown of England as a County Palatine, with power to them, their Heirs and Assigns, to make Laws for the good Government of the said Colony, with the advice, assent and approbation of the Freemen of the said Colony, and the greater part of them, so as the said Laws may be consonant to reason, and as near as con- veniently can be agreeable to the Laws & Customs of England. But all these privileges, with others in the said charter, are granted with an express saving of the Faith, Allegiance & Sovereign Do- minion due to the King, his Heirs & Successors, & saving the right, title & interest of English Subjects then planted within those Limits, if any be.
That for the better peopling the said Colony, express provision is made in the said Charter for a toleration and indulgence to all Christians in the free exercise of their religion.
That in the year 1669, the Lords Proprietors of the said Colony settled the method of the Government of the said Colony in several Articles, which were called and so agreed to be the Fundamental Constitutions of the said Colony, whereby the said Colony was divided into 4 Estates, viz., the Lords Proprietors or their De- puties, Landgraves, Cassiques & Freeholders, who are to make up their General Assembly or Parliament, which is the Legislature of the whole Colony. The Lords Proprietors or their Deputies, being in the nature of Sovereign, the Landgraves & Cassiques being the Nobility, who have an Hereditary right of Session there, The Frecholders representing the Commons, who are to be chosen by the Freeholders from among themselves by a majority of voices.
That in the said Fundamental Constitutions there is an express provision, that no person should be disturbed for any speculative opinion in Religion, and that no person should, ou account of Religion, be excluded from being a Member of the General As- sembly, or from any other Office of the Civil Administration. The
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greatest part of which said Fundamental Constitutions, and this Provision among others, were, in the year 1689, confirmed by the Proprietors. And every person to be afterwards admitted into any office or place of trust, was to swear to the observation of them. That the said Charter being made soon after the time of the Happy Restoration of King Charles II., and the re-establishment of the Church of England by the Act of Uniformity, many of the Subjects of this Kingdom, who were so unhappy as to have some scruples about conforming to the rites of the said church, did transplant themselves and families into said Colony, by means whereof the greatest part of the Inhabitants there were Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England, & thro' the equality and freedom of the said Fundamental Constitutions of the said Colony, all the Inhabitants there lived in great peace, and even the Ministry of the Church of England had support from Protestant Dissenters, & the number of the Inhabitants and the trade of the said Colony daily increased, to the great improvement of Her Majesty's Customs, and the manifest advantage of the Merchants and Manufacture of this Kingdom.
That in the year 1703, when a new General Assembly was to be chosen, which by the Constitution is to be chosen onee in two years, the election was managed with very great partiality and injustice, and all sorts of people, even Servants, Negroes, Aliens, Jews, & Common Sailors, were admitted to vote in Elections. That the Ecclesiastical Governt. of the said Colony is under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Bishop of London, But the Governor and his Adherents have at last, which the said Adherents had often threat'ned, totally abolished it. For the said Assembly hath lately passed an Act whereby twenty lay persons therein named are made a Corporation for the exercise of several exorbitant powers, to the great injury and oppression of the people in general, & for the exercise of all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, with absolute power to deprive any Minister of the Church of England of his Benefice, not only for his Immorality, but even for his im- prudence or incurable prejudice and animosity between such Minister & his Parish, & the only Church of England Minister that is established in the said Colony, the Revd. Mr. Edward Marston, hath already been cited before their Board, which the Inhabitants of that Province take to be a High Ecclesiastical Commission Court, destructive to the very being and essence of the Church of England, & to be had in the utmost detestation & abhorrence by every Man that is not an Enemy to our Constitution in Church and State. That in the said General Assembly another Act was passed to incapacitate every person from being a Member of any General Assembly that should be chosen for the time to come, unless he had taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England, whereby all Protestant . Dissenters are made uncapable of being of the sd. Assembly ; and
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yet by the said Act, all persons who will take an Oath That they have not received the Sacrament in any Dissenting Congregation for one year past, tho' they have not received it in the Church of England, are made capable of being of the said Assembly. And we take the liberty humbly to inform Your Lordships, That in the Preamble to the said Act, It is asserted, That by the Laws and usage of England, all Members of Parliament are obliged to con- form to the Church of England, by receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the said Church, which assertion js notoriously and manifestly false.
That this Act was passed in an Illegal Manner, by the Governor calling the Assembly to meet on the 26th of April, when it then stood prorogued to the 10th May following, and yet this Act hath been ratified by the Lds. Proprs. here in England, who refused to hear what could be offered against it, and contrary to the Petition of above 170 of the Chief Inhabitants of the said Colony, and of several Eminent Merchants trading thither, & tho' the Commons of the said Assembly quickly passed another Bill to repeal it, which the Governor rejected.
That the said Grievances daily increasing, Your Petr., Joseph Boone, is now sent by many Principal Inhabitants & Traders of the said Colony, to represent the languishing and dangerous condition of the said Colony to the Lords Prop's. thereof, but his bumble applications to them have hitherto had no effect.
That the ruin of the said Colony would be to the great disad- vantage of the Trade of this Kingdom, to the apparent prejudice of Her Majesty's Customs, & the great benefit of the French, who watch all opportunities to improve their own Settlements in those parts of America.
Whereof, Yr. Petrs. most humbly pray Your Lordships to take the deplorable state of the said Colony into your consideration, and to provide such relief for it as to Your Lordships, in your great wisdom shall seem proper, and your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.
Ja. Ball,
Jos. Boone,
Jos. Paice,
Micajah Perry,
Ste. Mason,
Dan. Wharley,
Rt. Hackshaw,
Thos. Coutts,
Christo. Fowler,
Jos. Marshall,
Thos. Byfeld,
Tho. Gould,
Renen,
Johr, Hodgkins,
Nat. Torriano,
Christo. Boone,
David Watenbous.
" The Case of the Protestant Dissenters in Carolina, shewing how a Law to prevent Occasional Conformity there, has ended in the Total Subversion of the Constitution in Church & State. Recommended to the serious consideration of all that are true
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Friends to our present Establishment. Mutato nomine, de te Fabula narratur. London. Printed in the year 1706."
[This pamphlet (so frequently quoted by Oldmixon) was copied for me from the British Museum, and is referred to in the text as part of this Appendix. Its great length precludes its insertion." And, indeed, it affords us very little information that is not found in the Representation of the Members of Colleton County, pre- viously given, and obtained from the same source.]
March [?], 1717.
To the Kings Most excellent Majesty,
The humble address of the Representatives and inhabitants of South Carolina.
Most Gracious Sovereign-
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Repre- sentatives and inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina in America, out of the extreme gief we are under to see our Country still harassed, and our fellow subjects killed and carried away by our savage Indian enemies, with the utmost submission, are obliged again to intrude on your Majesty more weighty affairs, and presume once more to lay before your Majesty the state of this, your afflicted colony.
In our last humble address to your Majesty, we took the liberty to inform your Majesty of the deplorable circumstances we then labored under, without any probability of seeing an end to our calamities. Our troubles, instead of coming to a period, daily increase upon us, and we now see ourselves reduced by these, our misfortunes, to such a dismal extremity, that nothing but your Majesty's most Royal and gracious protection (under God) can preserve us from ruin. Our Indians continue committing so many hostilities, and infesting our settlements and plantations to such a degree, that not only those estates which were deserted at the breaking out of the war, cannot be resetled, but others are daily likewise thrown up to the merey of the enemy, to the impoverishment of several numerous families.
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We farther take the liberty to inform your Majesty that not- withstanding all these our miseries, the Lords Proprietors of this Province, instead of using any endeavors for our relief and assist- ance, are pleased to term all our endeavours to procure your Majesty's Royal protection, the business of a faction and party. We most humbly assure your Majesty, that it is so far from any thing of that nature ; that all the inhabitants of this Province in general, are not only convinced that no human power but that of your Majesty can protect them, but earnestly and fervently desire, that this once flourishing Province, may be added to those under your happy protection.
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We have, in our former address to your Majesty, laid before you the state of the Colony, so shall not presume to further tire your Majesty's Royal patience. We fear we continue to be too importunate to your Majesty ; but the end and design of this, our loyal address, being no less than that of saving ourselves and estates from ruin ; we humbly hope that your Majesty, out of your wonted goodness, will be pleased to pardon us for the same.
We wish your majesty a long and happy reign, and that there may never be wanting one of your royal line to fill the British thronc.
Signed by Mr. Speaker, and the rest of the members attending the service of the House of Commons.
GEO. LOGAN, Speaker.
David Durham, Ra. Izard, Benj. De La Conseillere,
Thos. Summers,
William Gibbon,
Charles Hill,
Thos. Lynch,
Wa. Izard,
Jonathan Drake,
Richard Harris,
John Williams,
Thomas Waring,
John Godfrey, Thomas Satur,
Arthur Hall,
Hugh Hext,
Roger Moore,
John Woodward,
Richard Butler,
James Cochran.
John Russ,
Thos. Townsend,
John Beamor,
Signed likewise by the rest of the inhabitants of this Province.
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List of Papers in State Paper Office, London, relating to South Carolina, to the year 1700. 313
Letter from Lords Proprietors to Sir Wm. Berkley, relative ap- pointment of Governors, sale of land, etc., September 8, 1663 ... 330 From Proprietors to Governor and Council at Ashley River, rela- tive the supply of Stores to Colonists, with West's commission as Governor, etc., May 8, 1674. 332
Some particulars of interesting Manuscripts consulted. 334
Declaration and Proposals from Proprietors to Parties desirous of Planting in Carolina, August 25, 1663. 335
Instructions from the Proprietors to Sir John Yeamans, Governor
of South Carolina, giving authority to let and convey lands, etc. 338 Commission from Proprietors to Governor Sayle, giving power to let and convey land, and providing for an appointment of Gover- nor by the Council in case of death, and of a deputy by the Gov- ernor during his absence, July 26, 1669. 340
Copy of appointment of Deputies by Proprietors, July, 1669. 341 Instructions to Mr. Jos. West respecting sailing of fleet, and rela- tive passengers 342
Commission to Mr. Jos. West as Commander-in-chief, July 27, 1669 342 Instructions to Mr. West respecting planting Cotton, Indigo, Gin- ger, etc., etc.,. 343
Instructions to Mr. Jolin Rivers respecting Stores 345
do. to Mr. Henry Braine, on his sailing under Mr. Jos. West. 345
Meeting of Proprietors, election, etc., Oct. 21, 1669. 3.16
do. do. do. Jan. 20, 1669. 346
Instructions from the Proprietors respecting the summoning of the Assembly, etc., July 27, 1669. 347
Instructions to Mr. Jos. West respecting Stores 350
"Temporary Laws" of Proprietors (1671 ?). 351
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Additional "Temporary Laws" 352
Carolina " Temporary Laws," June 21, 1672. 354 " Agrarian Laws," or Instructions from the Lords Proprietors to the Governor and Council of Carolina, June 21, 1672. 355
Instructions to Captain Halstead on his sailing with the Blessing, May 1, 1671. 359
Letter to Captain Halstead, with further Instructions, January 2,1671-2. 363 Concessions from the Proprietors to certain settlers from Ireland, August 31, 1672 365
Instructions to Governor and Council respecting assembling of Par- liament, grants of land to servants, laying out towns, etc., May 1, 1671 366
Instructions to Governor and Council of Carolina, respecting go- vernment, etc., Dec. 16, 1671 369
Extracts from MS. Journals of the Grand Council, from Aug., 1671, to July, 1672 370
A Bill of Lading, January 13, 1671. 382
A Partnership Account, March 21, 1671-2.
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Governor Sayle's Codicil to his Will, April 10, 1671 385
Extract from Winthrop's History of New England $36
Instructions to Mr. Andrew Percivall respecting grants of land, May 23, 1674 387
Instructions to the Governor and Council relative to the Indians, land grants, etc., May 23, 1674. 388
Order concerning the Trade with the Indians, April 10, 1677 388 Articles of Agreement between Lords Proprietors, April 10, 1677. 390 Statement of Account between Proprietors and Colonel West, 1669-1677 391
Report of the Committee of Trade and Plantations respecting French Protestant Refugees, May 20, 1679. 392
Report of the Committee of Trade and Plantations in reference to bringing Carolina, etc., under nearer dependence upon the Crown, May 16, 1689. 393
Lords Proprietors to Governor and Council of Ashley River, May 17, 1680. 393
Letter from Lords Proprietors-Alterations in Fundamental Con- stitutions, May 10, 1682 395
Lords Proprietors to Governor Moreton, November 21, 1682 397
Lords Proprietors to Governor Moreton, November 21, 1682 .. 398 Lords Proprietors to Governor Moreton, November 21, 1682 .. 399
Instructions for granting of Land in Carolina, November 21, 1682. 399
LIST OF DOCUMENTS IN APPENDIX. 469
Power to grant Land in Carolina, November 21, 1682. 403 Form of Grant of Land in Carolina, November 21, 1682. 404 Instructions from the Proprietors relative the dissolution of the Parliament, etc., September 30, 1683. 406
Letter from " Cardrosse" to the Governor and Council, March 25," 1684 407
Another, to Governor Robert Quarry, July 17, 1684 408 Lords Proprietors to Governor James Colleton, December 2, 1689. 410 Lords Proprietors to Governor Colleton, December 2, 1689. 411
Lords Proprietors to Andrew Percivall, October 18, 1690 412
Lords Proprietors to Grand Council, May 13, 1691 414 Lords Proprietors to Seth Sothell, May 13, 1691. 416
Address from the Assembly to Right Hon. Seth Sothell, on Affairs of the Province. 418
Lords Proprietors to Seth Sothell, May 12, 1691 430
Representation of Grievances prepared by Assembly, September, 1692 433
Lords Proprietors to Governor Ludwell in reference to Laws passed by Assembly 435
Lords Proprietors to Governor and Deputies, rejecting Jury Act, relative qualification of Members, and other matters, April 10, 1693 436
Proclamation summoning inhabitants of Berkley County to agree to number of Representatives, November 30, 1695. 439
Petition of the House of Commons of South Carolina to the Lords Proprietors relative arrears of Quit-rent 440
Address and Remonstrance of the members of the House from Southwest part of Province 4441
E. Randolph to the Lords of Trade relative Duties on Commodities, and other particulars respecting Colony, March 16, 1688-9. .. 443 Particulars respecting location of French Protestants in South Carolina .. 4.17
Copy of Contract to supply Tar and Masts, by Peter Gerard. 4.17
Edward Randolph to Earl of Bridgewater respecting presumed dis- covery of Silver Mines, March 22, 1698-9. 447
Capt. Moore to Mr. Thos. Cutler, on same subject, April 3, 1699 .. 450 Memorial of Thos. Cutler to Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, on same subject 451
Commissioners of Trade and Plantation-meeting-refuse to en- tertain Moore's application 452
Letter from Wm. Thomburgh to W. Popple, with sample of South
Carolina Rice, etc., for Commissioners of Trade, July 21, 1699. 453
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Representation and Address of several Members from Colleton County to the Lords Proprietors, setting forth the grounds of their complaints against Governor Moore, his violation of the Election Laws, etc., June 26, 1703 '453
Boone's Petition to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom, respecting the establishment by Moore of an ecclesi- astical commission in South Carolina, etc 461
"Case of the Dissenters"-particulars of Title, and Note. 463 Petition of the Representatives and Inhabitants of South Carolina to the King, March (?) 1717 464
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