his,
they applied the balance, remaining due upon account of the two shilling
per hogshead, and fort duties, to this use. Which taxes and amercements
fell heaviest on the poor people, the effect of whose labor would not
clothe their wives and children. This made them desperately uneasy,
especially when, after a whole year's patience under all these
pressures, they had no encouragement from their agents in England, to
hope for remedy; nor any certainty when they should be eased of those
heavy impositions.

Sec. 94. Thirdly, Upon the back of all these misfortunes came out the act
of 25 Car. II. for better securing the plantation trade. By this act
several duties were laid on the trade from one plantation to another.
This was a new hardship, and the rather, because the revenue arising by
this act was not applied to the use of the plantations wherein it was
raised: but given clear away; nay, in that country it seemed to be of no
other use, but to burden the trade, or create a good income to the
officers; for the collector had half, the comptroller a quarter, and the
remaining quarter was subdivided into salaries, till it was lost.

By the same act also very great duties were laid on the fisheries of the
plantations, if manufactured by the English inhabitants there; while the
people of England were absolutely free from all customs. Nay, though the
oil, blubber and whale bone, which were made by the inhabitants of the
plantations, were carried to England by Englishmen, and in English built
ships, yet it was held to a considerable duty, more than the inhabitants
of England paid.

Sec. 95. These were the afflictions that country labored under when the
fourth accident happened, viz., the disturbance offered by the Indians
to the frontiers.

This was occasioned, first, by the Indians on the head of the bay.
Secondly, by the Indians on their own frontiers.

First. The Indians at the head of the bay drove a constant trade with
the Dutch in Monadas, now called New York; and to carry on this, they
used to come every year by the frontiers of Virginia, to hunt and
purchase skins and furs of the Indians to the southward. This trade was
carried on peaceably while the Dutch held Monadas; and the Indians used
to call on the English in Virginia on their return, to whom they would
sell part of their furs, and with the rest go on to Monadas. But after
the English came to possess that place, and understood the advantages
the Virginians m