[24] Ibid., f. 209, petition of the representatives of Barbadoes to the king, September 5, 1667. This document and Willoughby's letter of September 17, 1667, also urge very 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.