ery strongly that the bars of the
Navigation Acts be let down in order to permit servants to be imported
from Scotland.

[25] The petition and these answers are printed in a pamphlet
entitled, "Answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England
trading into Africa, to the Petition and Paper of certain Heads and
Particulars thereunto relating exhibited to the Honourable House of
Commons by Sir Paul Painter." As to the assertion that the planters
refused to ship their products in the company's ships there seems to
be no very good evidence on either side. Sometimes the company's
vessels were sent home from Barbadoes empty. Upon such occasions the
agents always said that there were no goods with which to load them.

[26] C. O. 1: 22, f. 42, answer of Sir Ellis Leighton, secretary of
the Royal Adventurers, to the petition from Barbadoes of September 5,
1667; C. O. 1: 22, f. 43, proposal of the Royal Adventurers concerning
the sale of Negroes in Barbadoes, January, 1668

[27] C. O. 1: 22, f. 204, address of the merchants and planters of
Barbadoes now in London, read at the committee of trade, June 16,
1668.

[28] _Ibid._, 23, f. 69, address of the representative of Barbadoes to
the king, August 3, 1668.

[29] _Ibid._, f. 42, account of affairs in Barbadoes by Lord
Willoughby, July 22, 1668.

[30] P. C. R., Charles II, 8: 294, May 12, 1669.

[31] _Ibid._, 8: 402, August 27, 1669.

[32] _Ibid._, 8: 424, September 28, 1669.

[33] C. O. 1: 27, f. 24, John Reid to Arlington, August 2, 1671.

[34] A. C. R., 75: 106, 108, 109, September 11, November 10, 1671.

[35] These numbers and prices are gleaned from page three of the
Barbadoes ledger. A. C. R., 646.

[36] Answer of the Company of Royal Adventurers ... to the Petition
... exhibited ... by Sir Paul Painter.

[37] C. O. 29: 1, f. 116, Willoughby to the Lords of the Council, July
9, 1668.

[38] _Ibid._, 1: 25, f. 62, memorial of some principal merchants
trading to the plantations, 1670.

[39] _Ibid._, 18, f. 86, Modyford and Colleton to (the Royal
Adventurers); C. O. 1: 20, f. 168, Michael Smith to Richard Chaundler,
June 11, 1666.

[40] _Ibid._, 22, f. 89, Willoughby to Arlington, March 2, 1668.

[41] _Ibid._, 17, f. 219, Renatus Enys to Bennet, November 1, 1663.

[42] _Ibid._, 29: 1, f. 116, Willoughby to the Lords of the Council,
July 9, 1668.

[43] _Ibid._, 1: 22, f. 53, proposals of the inhabitants of Antigua to
Governor Willoughby, January 31, 1