West Indian tales of old . BUXTON GROVE, ANTIGUA. WHERE GOVERNOR PARKE BREATHED HIS LAST THE FATE OF GOVERNOR PARKE of appropriating the island duties for his own use, andof other offences. The result of it all was that he wasrecalled to England, haled before the Kings Bench,tried and sentenced to five years imprisonment and topay a fine of i?500. Perhaps the place of Parkes burial was not disclosedthrough fear lest his enemies might still further showtheir resentment of his misdeeds by desecrating hisgrave. At any rate, a careful search has failed toresult in any traces of it whatever being f
West Indian tales of old . BUXTON GROVE, ANTIGUA. WHERE GOVERNOR PARKE BREATHED HIS LAST THE FATE OF GOVERNOR PARKE of appropriating the island duties for his own use, andof other offences. The result of it all was that he wasrecalled to England, haled before the Kings Bench,tried and sentenced to five years imprisonment and topay a fine of i?500. Perhaps the place of Parkes burial was not disclosedthrough fear lest his enemies might still further showtheir resentment of his misdeeds by desecrating hisgrave. At any rate, a careful search has failed toresult in any traces of it whatever being found in theisland. It has been said that Buxton Grove, a charm-ingly situated residence of typical West Indian appear-ance, with its cool looking galleries and palm-deckedgardens occupies the site of a house in which thetyrannous Governor once lived, while some authoritiesstate that Parke was shot in a building which stoodwhere the school of Lady Micos charity used to beand the Moravian college now is. Tradition says that the present cathedral,
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