e.]

46. You are to informe yourselves the best that may be, What Councills,
or Courts of Indicature are Established in any forreigne Kingdomes
or States for the well Government of their Trade and Navigation,
and for the Improovement Settlement, and Defence of their Collonyes
and Plantations. As also What Commissions, Powers, Authorityes,
Instructions, and allowances they have Given and Granted unto them
for the better carrying on of those Services.

[Sidenote: To observe such other Instructions &c as shall be sent
und^{r} his Ma^{ts} Signe Manuall and to addresse to his Ma^{ty}
for further Instructions &c. if need be.]

47. And Lastly you are required and authorized to observe and putt in
Execution all such other Powers, Authorityes and Instructions (relating
unto Our said Collonyes or Plantations, or unto the Trade, Commerce or
Navigation of them, or of these our Kingdomes) as shall from tyme to
tyme be sent unto you by Us under Our Signe Manuall.

And where you shall judge it necessary to have any further Powers,
Authorityes, or Instructions for the better Carrying on of Our Service
therein. You are to Addresse yourselves unto Us for Our further Pleasure
and Direction.

APPENDIX IV.

Heads of Business of Councils, 1670-1674.

COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN PLANTATIONS, 1670-1672.

_August 3, 1670._

Commission and instructions for a Council for Foreign Plantations read.
(From the Index mentioned on p. 101, note 6, here cited as _Journal_.)

_August 9._

Letter to Trinity House. (_Journal._)

_August 12._

Oath of Secrecy to the Officers. (_Journal._)

_August 16._

Petition of St. Christopher read. (_Journal_; Cal. State Papers, Col.
1669-1674, Sec. 232, here cited as _Cal._)

_August 19._

Commissioners for St. Christopher agreed on. (_Journal_; _Cal._, Sec. 232.)

_August 22._

Report on St. Christopher's case. (_Cal._, Sec.Sec. 232, 850.)

_September 22._

Petition for a chief governor of the Leeward Is. (_Journal_; _Cal._,
Sec. 268.)

_September 24._

Beginning of consideration of Surinam question. (_Journal_; _Cal._,
Sec.Sec. 60, 291, 486, 524, and _passim._)

_September 26._

Col. Lynch to be a committee at St. Christopher and afterwards to goe to
Jamaica as his Maj. Lieutenant. (_Journal_; _Cal._, Sec. 287.)

_September 27._

Leeward Is. petition again read. (_Cal._, Sec. 269.)

_September 29._

Drafting of queries to Gov. Berkeley of Virginia. (_Cal._, Sec. 565.)

_Sept