om the said Countries:

What methods are meetest to be used, or what Rewards fittest to be
given, to any that shall runne the hazards and Expence of it, to
undertake them.

And which may therefore the same, may be most probably soe effected, as
that the Commerce mey be encreased, and the said Plantations enriched
through it.

[Sidenote: What Councills are established in other Kingdomes, and what
Powers and instructions are given them for the improving of their Trade
and Plantations and to consider the Advantages and Disadvantages
thereof.]

5. You are to informe your selves as farre as you may what Councills
are Established in any other Kingdome for the good Governement, and
Improoving of their respective Plantations. What Directions or
Instructions, also, are particularly given to the said respective
Councills, and what Policy, Method or Conduct is used by them with
relation to the Strength, Trade and Increase of the said respective
Colonies, or with relation to the people themselves that are sent
thither.

And if you shall discerne such Methods and Directions to be good, or to
be well founded in Experience and Reason, You are to consider either how
the same may be aplyed to the Advantage of our owne Plantations, or how
any Inconveniences that may follow from them may be by you prudently
avoided.

Given at our Court at Whitehall, the first day of August 1670,
in the two and twentieth yeare of our Reigne.

By his Ma^{ties} Command

ARLINGTON.

APPENDIX III.

Draft of Instructions for the Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations,
1672-1674.

The Commission and Instructions Were Issued on September 27, 1672.

[Sidenote: To consider the Improvem^{t} of the Commodityes of these
Kingdomes.]

1. You are to consider how all Goods and Commodityes of the Production
or Growth of these Our Kingdomes may be best Improoved. What other
usefull Commodityes or Materialls for Manufactures there are which the
Nature of Our Sayle with good Husbandry will beare, or that tyme and
Industry can make Native.

[Sidenote: To consider the Setting up of Manufactures.]

2. You are likewise to consider the setting up and Improoving of
Manufactures within Our said Kingdomes, especially of shipping. And such
others as are most for the Employment of Our people of best use, and
greatest Proffit to our Kingdomes. The Establishing of Such Manufactures
in Townes and places most convenient for them. And to provi