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Title: Mr Clerke and Mr Hunts[?] Leasse of my land in Antigoe: June 1°: 1648 for ii yeares: My lord Carliles patent to me was incoted Michaelmas Terme 23°: Car: 1647. (docket title)
Author: Turner, Edward, fl. 1647
Addressee: Clarke, John, fl. 1647
All Contributors: Turner, Edward, fl. 1647 (Author)
Place of Origin: London (England)
Date: 1647-01-20
Series Heading: M2. Turner, Edward, fl. 1647.
Geography: Antigua
Subject: Debtor and creditor --Barbados -- Early works to 1800, Debtor and creditor -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800, Leases, Plantation owners -- West Indies, West Indies -- History, leases
Notes: First line: Articles of Agreement Indentured has made concluded and agreed upon the Twentieth Day of January Anno D'ni 1647 And in the three and twentieth year of..., Original digital object name: bei-m002, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States., "Articles of Agreement... Bitweene Edward Turner of... London Esquire of the first part John Clarke of... Hertf. Esquire of the second part And John Hunt of the Kingdom of France gent and one of the planters in the Island of Barbadoes... of the third part..." signed "John Clarke" "John [?]arry.""...in 1627 Lord Hay, Earl of Carlisle, obtained a patent granting him the Caribee Islands; that his son James was, on account of the debts of his father, obliged to make over his property to trustees, and the said islands were decreed in Chancery on the 7th June 1645 to the creditors... the Earl thereupon, on 26th Feb. 1647, appointed Francis, late Lord Willoughby of Parham, his lieut.-general over those islands for 21 years, and by another deed demised those islands to him for 21 years, burthened with the debts to the creditors... the King on 30 Oct. 1662 granted to the said Lord Willoughby one moiety of the revenue of those islands for seven years, reserving the other moiety to himself, and afterwards, on 13 June 1663, the King in Council heard the pretensions of the Earl of Kinnoul, heir to the late Earl of Carlisle, the Lord Willoughby, and all others claiming an interest in those islands... management thereof was left to the Lord Willoughby as chief Governor, after whose death William, Lord Willoughby, his brother, succeeded, pursuant to a commission dated 3 Jan. 1666... on the 10th of Jan. 1667 the said creditors complained that they had received no part of their debt..." ("Report touching the Earl of Carlisle's creditors and the Earl of Kenoule, &c." in PRO, Calendar of Treasury Papers 1556-7 -- 1696, 1:12-14).

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