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A proclamation was accordingly published, declaring "upon what terms and encouragement people may plant there and giving strangers liberty to plant there, provided they be Protestants and will be obedient to the government and laws of England."[59]

Three weeks later official letters were written to the Lord Mayor of London and the High Sheriff of the County of Surrey, directing that "all persons now in Newgate under condemnation, and not for murder or burglary, and also such as after conviction of being incorrigible rogues or vagabonds should be transported to Jamaica, the merchants undertaking to keep them from returning for ten years at least."[60]

Some months after arriving in England Lyttelton complied with a peremptory order from the Privy Council to give a short account of the state of the colony.

"The Interest of this Island as of all New Settlements", he wrote, "is daily changing—Provisions and all sorts of goods of the Country Produce being infinitely increased in that two years which Sir Charles Lyttelton stayed there, before which they little intended Planting or Breeding of Cattle.