| Title |
Historical notes |
| Reference |
RCMS 259/1 |
| Covering Dates |
1752–1915 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box |
|
| RCS/RCMS 259/1 contains: |
|
1
|
Papers relating to the early history of Barbados. Two copies of a 7 sheet printed leaflet, one annotated by Davis.
1 file; paper; printed. |
1909 |
|
2
|
Captain Henry Hawley. Summary of contents of an inquisition into the affairs of Captain Henry Hawley, 1640. 14 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908 |
|
3
|
Stowe MS 184. Extracts regarding the attitude of Barbados to the dispute between King and Parliament. 17 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
4
|
Sir George Ayscue's accounts of his expedition against Barbados, 1651-52. Reprinted from the 'Argosy', Georgetown. 3 sheets annotated by N.D.D.
1 file; paper; printed. |
1908–1915 |
|
5
|
Extracts from Sloane MS 2302: description of Barbados, 1710, by J. Walduck.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
6
|
Sugar in Barbados. 1 sheet.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
7
|
Notes on 'Barbados and other poems' by M.J. Chapman, 1833.
1 file; paper; mixed scripts. |
1908–1915 |
|
8
|
Notes on Codrington College, Barbados. Embodies RCMS 259/1/20.
I file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
9
|
Captain Nicholas Foster. Extracts from State Papers, 1654-5. 5 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
10
|
Proverbs of Barbados. 4 sheets.
1 file; paper; typewritten. |
1908–1915 |
|
11
|
Notes and extracts on Sir William Tufton, Governor of Barbados, 1629.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
12
|
Respecting Captain Henry Hawley. Governor of Barbados, June 1630.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
13
|
Notes on Theodore Palaelogus 1620 to 1648, and abstract of the will of Christopher Bradbury, 1685.
I file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
14
|
Short tales of Barbados, No. XI (article on Colonel Consett). 2 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
15
|
Extracts from State Papers regarding Colonel Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados. 2 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
16
|
Extracts from D' Oyley's Orderly Book, 1655, (B.M. Add. MSS 12410). Accompanied by a printed version in 'Early Times in Jamaica and Barbados', 'Agricultural Reporter', 14 April 1908.
1 file; paper; mixed scripts. |
1908 |
|
17
|
Notes regarding Sir William Courteen from 'Biographia Britannica', Rawlinson MS No. 94 and other sources.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
18
|
Material relating to 1620-1660, including a newspaper cutting from 'Barbados Advocate' with L. Curtis' description of Barbados in 1674.
1 file; paper; mixed scripts. |
1908–1915 |
|
19
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Letter from Lord Willoughby to Lady Willoughby (ex Schomburgh's 'History of Barbados' pp 273-6).
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
20
|
Embodied in RCMS 259/5/3. |
|
|
21
|
'Consolidation of the British West Indies'. Pamphlet by N.D. Davis.
1 vol.; paper; typewritten. |
1908 |
|
22
|
Religion in the West Indies. MS by Davis (15 sheets).
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
23
|
Newspaper cuttings re John Washington's visit to Barbados in 1751. From 'Barbados Advocate' and 'West India Committee Circular'.
1 file; paper; printed. |
1913 |
|
24
|
Embodied in RCMS 259 1/17. |
|
|
25
|
Letter from Gyles Sylvester to his father, 9 Aug. 1651. Copy of original in Bodleian Library.
1 file; paper; typewritten. |
1908–1915 |
|
26
|
Notes on the life of John Scott, a seventeenth-century indentured servant, mariner and soldier.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
27
|
Copies of letters in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, relating to Barbados, 1639-40. Includes an annotated reprint of a letter from Thomas Verney to Sir Edmund Verney, dated Barbados 1638/9 and reply; plus extensive extracts.
1 file; paper; some in poor condition; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
28
|
Extract from 'New York Evening Post', 31 Aug. 1891 about a visit of John Washington to Barbados, with covering letter from W.C. Ford, Library of Congress.
1 file; paper; mixed scripts. |
1908–1915 |
|
29
|
Notes on Francis Willoughby, Governor of Barbados, 1650. From Eva Scott, 'The King in Exile' (1808). Includes transcripts of 2 letters, one to his wife (Lady Willoughby) and one to Edward Lincolne.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
30
|
Colonel Lewis Morris. Notes extracted from the work of Rose C. Moon; 3 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
31
|
Letter from S. Yearwood, 1891, concerning historical matters. 8 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1891 |
|
32
|
Charges against Sir Richard Dutton, Governor of Barbados.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
33
|
Embodied in RCMS 259/1/27. |
|
|
34
|
'Westward Ho! in the Days of Drake'. 15 sheets.
1 file; paper; typewritten. |
1908–1915 |
|
35
|
Notes on steamship communications with West Indies.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
36
|
The Fight between the between the Randolph and the Yarmouth, 7 Mar. 1778. 2 copies.
1 file; paper; mixed scripts. |
1908 |
|
37
|
Embodied in RCMS 259/1/16. |
|
|
38
|
Letters on the subject of the descendants of Highland settlers in Barbados, from Sir George O' Donnell Walton, with a copy of a letter from Walton to Andrew Carnegie. 28 sheets.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908 |
|
39
|
Colonel A.B. Ellis, 'White slaves and bond servants in the plantations', reprinted from 'Popular Science Monthly' (extracted from 'The Argosy', 5 May, 1893).
1 file; paper; printed. |
1893 |
|
40
|
Order in Council respecting persons transported to Barbados for complicity in Monmouth's Rebellion, with list.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
41
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Proceedings re the petition of Colonel Guy Molesworth as to certain things done in Barbados, 1661. Extract from the Book of Minutes of Committee for Petitions. Refers to the Rebellion of 1649.
1 file; paper; manuscript. |
1908–1915 |
|
42
|
Notes on sugar by from 'Rolt's Dictionary', 1756. 2 sheets.
1 file; paper. |
1908–1915 |
|
43
|
James Rymer, 'Description of the island of Nevis with an account of its principal diseases', (London, 1775). Incomplete.
1 vol.; paper; printed. |
1775 |
|
44
|
Eman. Bowen, 'Map of the Island of Barbados containing the towns, churches, fortifications, roads, paths, plantations etc.'.
1 file; paper. |
1752 |
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