A Brief, but most True RELATION Of the late Barbarous and Bloody PLOT Of the Negroes in the Island of Barbados On Friday the 21. of October, 1692. To Kill the Governor and all the Planters, and to destroy the Government there Established, and to set up a New Governor and Government of their own.  
In a LETTER to a Friend.  
SIR,  
THis day I arriveed,— But I had like to come short of the Governor. For the Negroes in this Island had made a PLOT to have destroyed all the Christians therein: And it was to have been done that very day that we came hither. But as it happened, the Night before it was found out very providentially, by Two of them that were a talking of this their wicked Design; who being fully overheard to discourse thereof, they were taken up, and Examined, and so frankly confessed (when it could not be helped) what their Design was. Upon which discovery, the Government hath taken up between two and three hundred Negroes: And Tried and condemned many of them. Of which Number of the Condemned persons, Many were Hanged, and a great many Burned. And, (for a Terror to others,) there are now seven Hanging in Chains, alive, and so Starving to Death. It is reported, they designed to have taken up the Surnames and Offices of the Principal Planters and men in the Island, to have Enslaved all the Black men and Women tothem, and to have taken the White Women for their Wives. This PLOT was form by the Negroes that were born in the Island, and no imported Negro was to have been Admitted to partake of the Freedom they intended to gain, till he had been made Free by them, who should have been their Masters. The old Women (both Black and White) were to have been their Cooks, and Servants, in other Capacities. And they had chosen a Governor among themselves, and every thing was prepared and settled in Readiness for giving the Fatal Stroak. They have been contriving of this Wicked and Bloody design this three years, and had so long kept it very secret until the very day before it was to have been done. But we hope in a little time to see a Stop fully put to their Contrivance, and the Villains themselves speedily discovered and detected.  
Adieu.   

January 18th.  
This may be Printed  
Edmund Bohun.   

LONDON, Printed for George Croom, in Thames-street. 1693.