As to the Laws made here, I beg leave to refer your Lordpp 8 to the acts which I shall transmitt to your Lordpp 8 so soon as they are engrossed which I fear I cannot have time to have done to

The inhabitants here are more lazy & inactive than the world generally manufacture extends no farther than what is consumed in their own famillys, a few supposes, & their send by this opportunity.

coarse Lindsey Woolseys for clothing, and linen for their own wear

the hatt makeing trade here promise to make the greatest advances to the prejudice of Great Britain, but that the Parliament having already taken into their consideration, needs no more mention, whatever new :

seemed

to

springs

up that may in the least affect or prejudice the Trade or Navigation of Great Brittain, shall

be narrowly inspected & annual returns of your Lordpp s querries constantly sent I have the honor to be with

In the mean time

the greatest respect imaginable

My Lords Your Lordpp 3 most obedient & most humble servant (signed)

W. Cosby.

SAME TO THE SAME 6 DEC. 1734. [Lond. Doc. XXV.]

Wheat is the staple of tin's Province, and tho' that comodity seem literally to interfere with the product of Great Britain, it do's not so in fact, for it's generally manufactur'd into flower and bread, and sent to supply the sugar Collonys, and whenever a market in Spain Portugal or other parts of Europe has encouraged the sending it thither in Grain, the adventurers have often suffered by the undertaking, for at this remote distance, the intelligence of a demand reaches us so late, that the marketts are supplyed before our vessells come there, and even if it were otherwise our merchants