To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Craven; John, Earl of Bath; John, Lord Berkley; George, Lord Cartret; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir John Colleton, Baronet: Being Proprietors of Carolina, and the Bahama Islands. Thomas Bulkley, a Freeholder, Inhabitant and Merchant of New Providence (one of the said Islands) Humbly presenteth the following Address, Viz. WHereas (by sundry papers Presented to Your Lordships for Your perusal;) I the said Bulkley, have informed You largely and particularly of the Numerous and Highly aggravated Crimes and Misdemeanours of Cadwallader Jones, late Governor of Your last named Province, in and through the whole time that he presided there; and of my long continued Cruel Sufferings (under his Usurped Tyrannical power) for my Loyalty to the King, Fidelity and Zealous Service to Your Lordships, and the Inhabitants of Your said Province: And that after I was delivered by Law, I demanded Legal Process against Jones, his wicked Abettors, and Agents; but it was Corruptly denied to me by Nicholas Trott, (whom Your Lordships Commissioned to succeed Jones in the Government of the Bahama Islands, and by Governor Blake, and the rest of Your Judicial Officers at Carolina, and presented Proposals to Your Lordships, Viz. That You would put me into a Capacity by Law to Obtain speedy Justice in the Reparation of my Damages, and the Condign Punishment of my barbarous Oppressors, and those who by a perjurious neglect of doing Justice, have promoted their Escape, all which Papers I hope Your Lordships have throughly perused, and duly considered, and my just Expectations and Supplications as aforesaid, the Reasonableness whereof, I humbly offer to Your Lordships further consideration, in the particulars following. I. Because the Office and Exorbitant Power whereby Jones was enabled and emboldened to commit those horrible Crimes Alleged against him, and to Oppress me so cruelly for my opposing him therein regularly and according to the duty of my Place and Station in the Government, was Conferred on him by Commission and instructions from Your Lordships without due Examination of his fitness for discharging the duties thereof, for, if You had made but a slight inquisition into his inabilities for Government, You would soon have discerned that privatively and positively he was utterly unqualified for the meanest Office of Power and Public Trust instituted for the common benefit of humane Society, being destitute of all Moral Endowments requisite thereunto, and habitually propense to such Vices which to restrain from, and punish for, was a principal end of Erecting and Establishing Government among Men. II. Because soon after he was Installed in his Office, his Address to Your Lordships, his Letters to Col. Colleton, Governor of Carolina, against Proprietor Southwel, to Sir Robert Robinson Governor of Bermudas, to Mr. Simon Musgrave, Atorney General at Jamaica, and to Mr. Samuel Trott, Collector at Bermudas, being all stuffed with Nonsensical Raillery, and nauceous scurrility, manifested him to be an impudent shatter brained Idiot, fit for Bedlam, or Bridewell, than any place of Authority; yet you continued him near four years in the Administration of that Suprem Office; wherein his whole managment hath been greatly to the dishonour of Your Lordships, and damage of the people inhabiting Your said Province. III. Because all his barbarous and unjust deal with me, have been done by Colour of his Office, and by pretended Authority from Your Lordships, whose Names he hath constantly used to embolden his Agents in the Execution of his unlawful Precepts; Viz. To Imprison people without any cause, detain them during his pleasure, break their Houses and Rob them of their goods, etc. Whereby he hath Represented Your Lordships as a company of Nimrods', that delight in hunting men to destruction, and therefore send such beasts of prey to Rule over them. iv Because Nicholas Trott (who succeeded Jones in the Government of the said Province by Commission from Your Lordships,) denied me my Birth-right-priviledge, viz. the benefit of the Laws of England, for my own relief, and the Exemplary punishment of my merciless oppressors; the chief of whom he preferred to places of great Dignity and Authority in the Government, though guilty of, and accused for Traitorous and Felonious Conspiracies, Burglarys, and other heinous Crimes, and at the same time held me a close Prisoner, denying me Bail, and delaying my Trial two months after he became Governor, though I had then been hardly imprisoned under Jones his Usurpation 14 months, and when I was cleared by Law, and in the King's Name demanded Legal Process against Jones, and Graves; he permitted both to Re●ire out of the Province, whereby they have Escaped Demerited-punishment, and because the said Trott hath Assumed and Exercised an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Power over the Persons, Libertys, and Properties of the King's Subjects inhabiting Your said Province, ever since he came to the Government. V Because through the denials of Justice by Your Lordship's Ministers at Providence, and Carolina; I am Necessitated to leave the Place of my Settled Habitation and Trade, my Lands, Houses, Goods, and Debts of great value, and to Expose myself to great Peril of Life and Liberty, and to great Expense of time and money in Travelling 3000 miles over the Seas, viz. From Providence to England, to spread my deplorable Case before Your Lordships, to whom only (Trott saith) Jones is answerable for the male Administration of his Office; and by the Denials aforesaid, I am deprived of witnesses here [viva voce] to prove the matters of Fact which I have Alleged against them, and for which I am bound to prossecute. VI Because they who have the disposal of Offices for Administration of Justice, ought not to put into them any but such as are duly qualified, and for whom they will answer, the Law says Respondeat Superior, which is the reason why Security is required for such Officers before they can Execute their respective Offices; otherwise the Persons sustaining▪ damage by their ignorant or corrupt Errors, would be destitute of remedy, whereby those Offices that are appointed for common benefit, would become the most Common and only Remediless grievances. VII. Because Your Lordships (by whom Jones, Trott, Blake, etc. were Vested with the said Offices and Exorbitant powers which Enabled and Emboldened them, their Abettors and Agents to do those Acts of monstrous Cruelty and Injustice to me, and whereby I have been deprived of the benefit of the Laws for my own relief, and their punishment) are beyond expression better able to repair my Losses and Damages, than I am to bear them, who have lost a Virtuous Wife (frighted to Death by the Burglarious and other Terrifying Acts of Violence done by the said Jones and his Complices) my own health, by hard and long Imprisonment, my whole Estate in Lands, etc. as aforesaid; am put out of all manner of Employment, disabled to pay my Debts, and to betake myself to the Free and Public Exercise of any Occupation, for maintaining myself and Offspring; or to be in any considerable degree useful in my Generation, in which Case, Life is undesirable to a good man. The Exorbitant Powers (in the first foregoing Reason) said to be Conferred by Your Lordships upon Jones, were that by Commission You impowered him, and by instructions directed him to appoint a Deputy to Each Proprietor according to his pleasure, and every Deputy so appointed to be always a Member of the Grand Council, and of the Upper House in the General Assembly, and to hold those Places of Dignity and Authority during his pleasure: And he with the consent of three Deputies of his own Election and appointment, to Ratify or Reject such Laws as should be chosen by the People's Representatives Convened in a General Assembly, also to Adjourn, Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly at their Arbitrary will and pleasure, which Powers the said Jones hath corruptly used to the Subverting of the very Ends of Government, in appointing Indigent Illiterate and Vicious Men to be your Deputies; whereof some have been Notoriously guilty of Capital Crimes: These being introduced by his favour and holding their Places duranto bene placito, by their servile Compl●ance with him in his Arbitrary and oppressive Practices, and Traitorous Conspiracies, have furthered the Execution thereof, and frustrated the good Effect of all Legal means used, for limiting his Exorbitant power, and Redressing the People's intolerable grievances, under his Tyranny. By the Advice and Consent of such dependent Creatures, he hath procured long Intermissions, undue Elections, and abrupt Dissolutions of General Assemblies, and thereby hath Defeated the chief Ends of the Constitution and Convention of that Supreme Court, viz. Enacting beneficial Laws, Redressing Grievances, and correcting the Exorbitances of pernicious Favourites and corrupt Ministers of State To evince the truth of what is said concerning his choice of Deputies, I present Your Lordships with a Catalogue of the Names, and a description of the Persons who were appointed to be Your Deputies, by Cadwallader Jones, in the time of his Tyrannical Government of Your said Province, viz. from the 19th day of June Anno 1690. to the 16th day of April 1694. viz. Himself, whose description you have had before; Bartholomew Mercier, an indigent French Alien, and a Robber of French Protestant Refugees; John Graves, a perpetual Incendiary; Gilbert Ashley, Bowen Clasen, Allen Abbot, a Pirate, Timothy Rumney, a reputed Papist, [the two last were chosen Deputies to strengthen a Conspiracy to Banish Bulkley, for opposing Jones his Tyranny in a Parliamentary way] Richard Holloway, Daniel Jackson, a Notorious Pirate; Martin Cock, a servant to a Punch-house-keeper; Thomas Cumber, an Illiterate man, who could not write his own Name; Thomas Perk, Thomas Williams, a Notorious Pirate; Ashley and Clasen (being sensible and sober men) were displaced by Jones, and Halloway avoided the same fate, by going to Jamaica. That the Character I have given of Jones may be Evidently verified, I have inserted his Letter to Mr. Samuel Trott, and the Answers thereunto, also Sir Peter Colleton's Letter to Jones, as a Specimen thereof, Viz. A LETTER from Cadwallader Jones, Governor of the Bahama Islands in America (by Commission from the Right Honourable William Earl of Craven, John Earl of Bath, John Lord Berkley, George Lord Cartret, Anthony Lord Ashley, and Sir Peter Colleton, Baronet, being Proprietors of the said Province.) Superscribed to Sam. Trott, Esq, Governor would be of the Bahamas, and his Counsel, in Bermuda. Humbly present, per Capt. Walmsley. My nefarious Friend, Samuel Trott, Let thy Villainies and Treasonable Conspiracies rot. Your little thoughts, and Forging Hands, Will bring you where the Gallows stands. By chance a Collector, but now a Projector, Will Murder do, to prove yourself a Hector. First to begin, he causes Reports of Walmsley, Bridge was sure of him, I'd make Mummy. Great is our God and doth Commiserate, Those Inprinciples that Sin do hate. Your Mountain hath brought forth a Mouse, Your Petition and Faction I value not a Louse. There is no danger of a Popish Successor, And of the Church of England I'll be a Professor. Call your Conventicle and be Damned, I'll make you know in Province I stand. Nassav, Octob. 12, 1691. Cadwallader Jones. Postscript. Sarra, I desire no Dogs from your Island, with their Families to settle here, you may remember St. John in his New Jerusalem, Without are Dogs, Sorcers, etc. which I take to be Non-con's, that St. John means, such as you and your Subscribers, which makes me use his just Title given you. It's true, I cannot hinder you, the Land is before you; but I'll make you pay the Church Honourably by a Vestry. I expect an Ordained Minister every day, and Sarra let me tell you 'tis in my power in Spite of your Malice; you have not all the Bishops in the Tower yet, and more I have Escaped, being murdered by you and your Subscribers Machinations. The 29th past is worse on your sides. In few days a Parliament meets, the Discourse of the City is That to prevent your Factious Masters of Sloops daily Robberies in our Out Plantations, and to obstruct your Trade, be it Enacted, That any Barmuda Men (coming into our Ports or Havens) that cannot say the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, shall not have liberty to Trade; 'tis as rational as the Jews and Samaritans, you the Jews daily contriving the Killing of Kings. I'll say no more of you the World Rings. Nassau, Octob. the 12th 1691. Cadwallader Jones. Governor Jones' Accrostick on the name of Trott, followeth, viz. True it's said your Sister's anells shape Rough thou and Brow, much the Ape. Ought Sip thou shalt for thy Rebellion, Triced I doubt not by a second Gideon. C. J. An Answer to the foregoing Letter from the said Samuel Trott, Collector at Bermuda, the Inscription being as followeth, viz. To the much Admired Cadwallader Jones, Esq Capt. General and Governor of the Islands called New Providence, Elutheria, Exuma, Cat Island, and Hog Island, and over all Persons therein of what Colour soever, Whites, Blacks, or Mulettoes, and of all Animals, and Infects, of every Kind and Quality. Great Sir, TO you these Lines are Dedicated, for (having received yours dated the 12th) I could do no less in gratitude than return you an answer, not doubting your acceptance thereof. I intended to have followed your method of Verse before Prose, but considering you put me in remembrance of St. John in his New Jerusalem, in return threunto, I send you one of King Solomon's Proverbical Ethics, viz. Answer not a Fool according to his Folly, lest thou be like him. What I have now written may serve to settle your Windmil-Brain, when you return from your Exchange, Vulgarly called a Rum-Punch House. The Superscription and Seal of your Letter, was very pleasing to me, much more the Poetical Ingenuity of your Verses, and the Courtly stile of your Prose, the rarity whereof, my Pen is too dull to Express. It exceeds Tom Thumb in Folio, or Don Quixot de Sancta Delapancha, the whole being so Savory, that all the Salt brought from Cat Island by our Interlopers (without your Clearing) could not have given so Savory a Relish. I mention the said Learned Authors supposing you have spent much of your time in Reading them, in order to better accomplish you for Government: O how unfortunate have I been, so long to be unacquainted with you, being a person of such Incomparable parts, and Admirable Qualifications, that I am persuaded no Academy in Europe hath produced your Equal, except the College of Bedlam, where I presume you have passed all Degrees. I am unwilling to trouble you with a long Epistle, else I would give you some account of the Medicinal Virtues and wonderful Operations of your Letter upon some People here (on which account, I think it well deserves to be called Coll. Jones' Catholicon) but you will have it from another hand. I had been more speedy in my answer, but a report of your being put on Board a Vessel in order to your Transportation, diverted me. If you please to send any more of your Compositions, they shall be posted up for public Advertisement. I have nought to add, but conclude Saluting you with a Panegyric Poem on your Excellencies singular Endowments, Achievements, and Merits, viz. Blaze forth Great Jones with thy ingenious Fire, 'Twill make the Aged and the Wise admire. Display the Beams of thy rare Virtues, and Raise Castles great by thy Industrious hand, Near tell us that in Providence you stand, More fit you are Utopia to Command: Such thundering Words as yours, how could they come From the dull Spirits of insippid Rum. For we assure you, never yet before, Such Lines have reached our Petrified Shore. Brave Jones be stout, and still have Courage Bold, Rum very shortly will be cheaper Sold. But stay my muse, and let him have the Praise, Nature hath crowned his Head with wreathed Bays. Postscript. Sir, I almost forgot to answer your Accrostick, pray accept the following, from yours, Samuel Trott. Jones from Virginia lately ran away, October was the Month as People say, Now he tells us in Providence he doth stand, long he'll run from thence or will be Hanged, Such Fools as he ne'er knew how to Command. An Abstract of a LETTER from Bermuda to Cadwallader Jones, Governor of the Bahama Islands. Sir, YOur Letter directed to Governor would be of the Bahaman's and his Counsel, hath come to my hand; and I (having a great respect for the person to whom it was sent) thereupon held myself obliged to give my own and others thoughts of that Letter. The stile of your verses I much admire, but they run not very smooth, through the inequality of their Feet; a certain person who had a sight of them, said, if a Schoolboy seven years old had writ such stuff, he would have Jerked him till he Beshit himself. Your said Letter hath produced various Effects here, for in all Companies (when merrily disposed) we have News from Nassau. The Women have it too, and use it instead of Raw Head and Bloody Bones to Affright their Children out of cross grained Humours. Some more of your Compositions would be of great use here, for I am informed the sight of them (pasted up over the Pissing places) will cure a Clap more Infallibly than Aqua Tetrachy machacon, or, Mercurius Dulcis. An unlucky Doctor (to a person much troubled with Gross Humours) prescribed a Dose of it as Purging Physic, of which, the Patient taking but one Verse, it gave him Fifteen Stools. A Maggot Pated Fellow (like yourself) ancyed he had an Allegator or young Crockadile in his Belly, and to deliver him of it, a Vomit was judged most , and a Potion of the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum, fitter for a Horse than a Man was prescribed, but it proved ineffectual, not being strong enough; Then said an arch wag, give the Gentleman part of Governor Jones his Letter, thereupon they agreed to give him your Accrostick on the name Trott, but before the Patient had taken half of it, they thought he would vomit up his Heart, Liver and Lungs, by the violent operation of this strong Emettick. Sir, I have no other News whereof to Advertise you, but for as much that I have heard the same of your profound Wisdom, in resolving intricate Questions (being a second Solomon in your own conceit) I propose this Question to you, viz If a Man be found to be Felo de se, by the Coronors' Inquest, whether the Law in such case will afford him the Benefit of the Clergy, and desire the Favour of your opinion by the first opportunity: In granting thereof, you will Infinitely oblige him that (with an Accrostick on your Surname) takes leave, remaining, Sir, your Extraordinary wellwisher— Palmarin de Olwa, alias, Lazarill des Agnes I tell thee what, God. Jones thou art the sport, Of each Lewd Fellow, and the Common sort. ne'er such a Fool as you, who would seem witty, yet was found in Nassau City. So far you well, if more I'm sure 'tis pity. A Letter from Sir Peter Colleton (than a Proprietor of Carolina and the Bahama Islands) to Cadwallader Jones, Governor of the said Islands, Directed for him, in Providence, as followeth, Coll. Jones, I Wrote to you by Coll. Ludwell, since when no Opportunity hath presented until now, I have read several Letters from you, and have also had the perusal of your Packet Directed to the Earl of Craven, and take notice of the Letters you writ to Mr. Musgrave, and Mr. Trott, in which Packet, Coppies of them were enclosed; and have also seen the Copy of the Letter you wrote to Sir Robert Robertson, Governor of Bermuda; I was in hopes you had seen your Error in writing such Letters as that was to Sir Robert; But those you sent since to Simon Musgrave, and Mr. Samuel Trott, Convince the Lords you have not; but persist in the same indiscretion: For no man that sees these Letters, but must conclude they came from the Pen of a Man out of his senses; And that you Expose, the Reputation of the Lords by them: For what will the world think of their Employing a Man as Governor, that hath no more prudence than to send such Extravagant Letters, up and down the world, and send Coppies of them to the Lords Proprietors, that they also may be witnesses of his Indiscretion. They (to vindicate themselves) have thought fit to Empower Mr. Nicholas Trott to be Governor of the Bahama Islands, to whom you are to Surrender the Government: I am hearty sorry it should so fall out, The Lords have a great kindness and respect for you, and will be willing to do what is in their p●wer for you, but they are answerable to the King for the good Government of the Places granted to them, and cann●t answer the not doing what they have now done. Writ me what you think may be of advantage for you, that they can do, and I will get it dispatched for you: I am your very Affectionate Friend. P. Colleton. London the 3d of Febr. 1692. Postscript. My Lords, THE Sufferings that undeservedly I have undergon by the Oppression and Injustice of your Ministers, (viz. Jones, Trott, and your Deputies Chosen and Appointed by them) have been so Great, and continued so Long, that I cannot digest them, therefore I have waded through great Difficulties and Dangers in coming from Providence to England for Redress. And since my Arrival here, I have truly represented my Case to your Lordships, so as would move the Hearts of every one (that is not degenerated from Christianity, Morality, and Humanity) with pity to the Oppressed, and Indignation against the Barbarous Oppressors. As to myself, when I reflect upon the resentment Expressed by all the tribes of Israel (the Culpable only excepted) in the Levites Case, Recorded in the Sacred History, viz. the 20th Chap. of Judges, from the 1st to the 14. Verse, I am filled with Astonishment at your strange Vnaffectedness with the Relation that hath been made to you of the Agents Monstrous Villainies, and the patients dreadful Sufferings in this Case (which far exceeds the Levits in heinous Aggravations) especially if you consider how much you have contributed to both, by putting the too Edged Sword of Supreme Authority into the hand of an Indigent-Vitious-Frantick-Fool, who hath daily used it to the dishonour of your Lordships, and destruction of the King's best Subjects inhabiting your Province, ever since he was admitted to the Government, and above all others to the ruin of me, who once more apply myself to you for Redress, the which if you do not speedily grant me, I shall be obliged to bring my Complaints against your Delegates, and yourselves, before the King and Counsel, to whom Sir Peter Colleton (in his Letter to Jones) hath acknowledged you are accountable for the Government of the Provinces granted to you by the Charters of His Majesty's Royal Predecessors. Your Lordship's Answer to this my last Address, is Humbly Expected and Desired by your Actively and Possively well-deserving, tho' Ignobly and Unmercifully disregarded Servant, T. B.