ever unto His Majestie his heires and Successors one Eare of Indian Corne att or upon ye feast of ye Birth of our Lord Christ in full satisfaction of all rents and services for ever. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and caused His Majestie’s Seale appointed for Barbados and ye rest of the Caribee Islands to be affixed the Eleventh day of Aprill in the twentieth yeare of ye Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of ye Faith Anno que Domini One thousand Six hundred Sixty Eight. ------ _Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, restored to him after his acquittal upon the charge of murdering his half-brother, the Indian Warner, in_ 1676. To all Xion People to whom these presents shall come William Stapleton Capn Genl over all His Majties Leeward Islands in America Sendeth Greetinge Know ye that I William Stapleton Capn Gen as aforesaid in pursuance of His moste Excellent Majties Charles the Second his Commission to me directed Bareing date the tenth day of February and by virtue of an article in ye same Impowering me to Sell Lett and dispose of all such lands tenements and Hereditaments in and upon any or either ye said Islands which shall fall or by Law Ellapse or otherwise become due or belonging unto our Said Soveraigne Lord ye King and the same or any part of Pall thereof from time to time to dispose of under such moderate quitt Rents acknowledgements or securities to be reserved to His Majestie his Heires and Successors by mee shall bee deemed meete and convenient. And further by one other Article in his Majties said Commission I am fully Impowered and authorized by his said Majtie to grant Letters and Charters of Incorporasion to all Citties, Townes, Boroughs and other places wthn any or either ye said Islands or plantations respectively wth all liberties, franchises, and priviledges requisite and usually granted to any such wthn the kingdom of England which said grants charters or priviledges soe by me granted and —————— His Majties great Scale appointed for his said Leeward Islands, and beinge duly Entered inrold and recorded shall be good and effectuall in Law against any Pson, Power or Authoritie what so ever. Know ye therefore that I the said William Stapleton Capn Genl &ca by virtue of my said Commission and ye severall Powers to mee therein given for and in ye behalfe of our Soueraigne Lord ye King, for divers good and lawfull causes and considerations hereinafter in the Psents mentioned and expressed and forasmuch as Coll Phillip Warner of the Island of Antigua stands possessed of a certain freehold and plantation or Pall of land in and upon ye said Island of Antigua commonly call’d or known by the name of the Savanna by virtue of a grant and Pattent had and obtained by the said Coll Phillip Warner from and under the hand of William Lord Willoughby of Parham late Capn Genl and Governor in Chiefe