ical phrases of the first "Overture,"
with many new paragraphs which seem to show the same spirit of hostility
for Spain that is exhibited in the formation of the West India Company.
Indeed this document is an outcome of the same movement which led to the
formation of that company. Some of the more important sections are as
follows:

"To render what we already possess, and all that depends upon it,
to be a foundation and Inducem^{t} for future undertakings; by
gathering reasonable assistances from thence, and by mingling and
interweaving of Interest, and letting it appear that such Persons
and Collonies shall have the more of the Indulgencie of the State
as shall merit most in what they shall in any way be readier to do,
or contribut to the service of the whole; for hereafter they may
be considered as one embodied Commonwealth whose head and centre
is here.

"That every Governour shall have his Commission reviewed, and
that all be reviewed in one form, w^{th} such clauses and provisions
as shalbee held necessary for the promotion of his Highness other
public affairs, and that as soone as order can be conveniently taken
therein the several Governours to be paid their allowances from
hence (though upon their own accounts), that their dependencie bee
immediately and altogether from his Highness....

"That all prudentiall means be applyed to for the rendering these
Dominions useful to England, and England helpful to them; and that
the severall Peices and Colonies bee drawn and disposed into a more
certaine, civill, and uniforme waie of Government and distribution
of Publick Justice. And that such Collonies as are the Proprietie
of particular Persons or of Corporations may be reduced as neare as
cann bee to the same method and proportion w^{th} the rest w^{th}
as little dissatisfaction or injurie to the persons concerned as
may bee.

"That a continual correspondence bee so settled and ordered ...
that so each place w^{th}in itself and all of them being as it
were made up into one Commonwealth may be regulated accordingly
upon comon and equal Principles."

These proposals are followed by a series of propositions designed to
further the enterprise of the merchants and to aid in the defeat of
the Spaniards, whereby "those oppressed People (who are w^{th}held
from Trade though to their extreme suffering and