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The System of British Colonial Administration of the Crown Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Compared with the System Prevailing in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

H. E. Egerton
Affiliation:
Colonial History in the University of Oxford

Extract

The most learned of historians would find it difficult to add much to the sum of knowledge in treating the subject of my paper. That subject is the comparison between the administration of certain colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their administration in the nineteenth. The question is why, whereas in most colonies there has been steady progress from representative to responsible government-Lord Blachford was clearly wrong when he seemed to imply that Crown Colony government was the necessary preliminary to both these-in the West Indies, on the other hand, the tendency has been in the opposite direction, viz. from representative to Crown Colony government.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1918

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page 193 note 1 Op. cit. vol. ii. pp. 4–5.

page 193 note 2 Ibid. p. 7.

page 193 note 3 Ibid. p. 8.

page 196 note 1 Cal. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. and W. I. 1677–80, p. 300.

page 196 note 2 Ibid. p. 301.

page 196 note 3 The petition is set out in full in Bryan Edwards, op. cit. vol i. pp. 275–6. Appendix on Historical Account of Constitution of Jamaica, by Gov. Lyttelton.

page 197 note 1 The petition is set out in full in Bryan Edwards, op. cit. vol. i, p, 296.

page 197 note 2 Acts of the Privy Council, Col. Series, vol. i. p. 832.

page 198 note 1 Cal. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. & W. I. 1677–80, p. 407.

page 198 note 2 Ibid., 1681–5, p. 113.

page 199 note 1 Cal. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. & W. I. 1981–5, p. 522.

page 199 note 2 Ibid. 1685–88, pp. 619–20.

page 199 note 3 Ibid. 1689–92, p. 523.

page 199 note 4 Ibid. p. 524.

page 200 note 1 Cal. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. & W. I. 1693–6, p. 446.

page 200 note 2 Itid. 1699, p. 36.

page 201 note 1 Cal. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. & W. I. 1700, p. 424.

page 201 note 2 Ibid. 1702, p. 180.

page 201 note 3 Ibid. 1702–3, p. 838.

page 202 note 1 Cat. of State Papers, Col. Series, Am. & W. I. 1706 8, p. 714.

page 203 note 1 Vol. ii. pp. 124–5.

page 206 note 1 The Colonial Policy of the Administration of Lord John Russell, vol. i. p. 174.

page 207 note 1 The Colonial Policy of the Administration of Lord John Russell, vol. i. pp. 175–6.

page 208 note 1 The Colonial Policy of the Administration of Lord John Russell, vol. i. pp. 190–1.

page 209 note 1 Parl. Papers, 1854, xliii. p. 5.

page 209 note 2 Ibid. Sir H. Barkly's Report, p. 26.

page 210 note 1 Sir H. Barkly's Report, p. 10.

page 210 note 2 Ibid. p. 58.

page 211 note 1 Parl. Papers, 1866, xx., Report of Royal Commission, pp. 40 and 37.

page 212 note 1 Parl. Papers, 1866, li. p. 352.

page 212 note 2 Ibid. p. 406.

page 213 note 2 Parl. Papers, 1866, li. p. 406.

page 214 note 1 Part. Papers, 1867, xlix. p. 8.