Item note: "Att the Request of the Peticoner Mr. Bate I William Hart... haveing lately been a voyage to the Island of Barbados with his Excellency Ralph Gray Esq: now Governour of the said Island of which I was Deputy Secretary and Secretary... doe certifye that it was generally reported and beleived that the Peticoner and his Father had been peaceable possessed of a Certaine Estate or Plantation in the said Island comonly called... Delarouse for thirty odd Yeares which... had been leased for some yeares past by the peticoner to Mrs. Hester Gascoigne Widdow... a true Copy Edward Southwell"William Hart was Secretary to Gov. Ralph Grey--cf. PRO. Calendar. Colonial Papers, 1694, v. 17, #500, where Hart returns to England, June 1699, to recover his health.On the Delarouse Plantation see PRO. Calendar State Papers. Colonial Papers, 1699, v. 17, #732.