have not wanted physic and surgery. They have not been sold for
slaves, to perpetual servitude, but for six, or seven, or eight
years, as we do our own; and he that bought the most of them I
hear, buildeth for every four of them a house, and layeth some
acres of ground thereto, which he giveth them as their own,
requiring them three days of the week to work for him by turns, and
four days for themselves, and promises as soon as they can repay
him the money laid out for them, he will set them at
liberty."--_Letter to Cromwell, by Mather Cotton: Carlyle's Letters
and Speeches_, vol. ii. p. 349.

Page 102. "I beseech your Majesty that I may inform that each
person will be worth ten pounds, if not fifteen pounds a-piece.
And, sir, if your majesty orders that as you have already designed,
persons that have not suffered in the service, will run away with
the booty."--_Letter from Jefferies, Sep., 1685._

"Take all care they continue to serve for ten years at least, and
that they be not permitted in any manner to redeem themselves by
money or otherwise until that term be fully expired. Prepare a bill
for the assembly of our colony, with such clauses as shall be
necessary for this purpose."--James II. Letters (countersigned by
Sunderland) to the Governor of Virginia, Oct., 1685--_Bancroft_,
vol. ii. p. 25.

Page 102. "Good God! where am I? In Bristol! This city it seems,
claims the privilege of hanging and drawing among themselves. I
find you have more need of a special commission once a month at
least. The very magistrates that should be ministers of justice,
fall out with one another to that degree, that they will scarcely
dine together, and yet I find they can agree for their interests if
there be _a kid_ in the case, for I hear that kidnapping is much in
request in this city. You discharge a felon or traitor, provided he
will go to Mr. Alderman's plantations in the West
Indies."--_Jefferies Speech: Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, by Roger
North_, vol. ii. p. 113.

_Note_, page 121. A commission was appointed to enquire into those
allegations, and their report fell into the hands of the author
after the account of the _Amphitrite_ was printed. It does not
appear, that the imputations of sordid calculation were well
grounded, and no bo