William Beeston letter to William Blathwayt, 1683 April 16

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I received yours some days since but beefore that Mr Durke and myselfe
put in A Petition to the Comittee of the African Company in beehalfe of Mr Willson who
caused it to be read whilst wee were present, and many of them seemed well inclined then,
besides others which I haue particularly spoken to since, for that I hope by your good recommendation
and theire Consideration of him that may bee most fitting to serue them, hee may get the Im
ployment Sr Inclosed I send you what I haue written of Jamaica, in which I thought it not fitting to
descend to particulars, because it would have made it too long to bee printed with the laws, neither
was I willing to put it into any other then A very plaine stile, or venture out into extraordinary
Praises of the Country (tho it deserves it) least the reader should thinke it rather written to [illegible]
people thither then truely to describe the place, what I haue said of it is certainely the truth &
no more, as it is if you thinke fitting to lett it bee printed with the booke, or else if you please to Correct
it where it may want in the language or else, or otherwise to leaue it wholey out of the booke, it
shall in any of them bee pleasing to

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From Collonell Beeston
16 April: 1683

About the Preface to the
laws

No: 1

To William Blathwayte Esquire
Humbly Present
At Whitehall