to the case
if they tend, or were designed to of our Plantacons; or if they
our prejudice or Disadvantage, they tend or were designed to the
may bee ballanced, or turned-back prejudice or disadvantage thereof
upon them. or of any of our subjects or of
trade or comerce, how then they
may be ballanced or turned back
upon them.

To receive, debate, and favour 11. To advise, order, settle, and
all such Propositions as shall dispose of all matters relating to
be tendered to them, for the the good governm^{t} improvement
improvement of any of the forreigne and management of our Forraine
Plantations, or in order to any Plantacons or any of them, with
other laudable and advantageous your utmost skill direccon and
enterprize. prudence.

To call to its Advice and 7. To call to your assistance
Consultation from time to time, as from time to time as often as the
often as the matter in debate and matter in consideration shall
under consideration shall require, require any well experienced
any well experienced Persons, persons, whether merchants,
whether Mechants, or Seamen, or planters, seamen, artificers,
Artificers. etc.

In the "Overtures" there are no clauses corresponding to those in the
Instructions relating to the enforcement of the Navigation Act or to the
spread of the Christian religion; these may well be deemed Restoration
additions, inserted at Clarendon's request. But the clause concerning
the transportation of servants, poor men, and vagrants may well have
been Povey's own, for both Povey and Noell were interested in the
question and Noell had been in the business since 1654. In the "Queries"
is the following paragraph:

"Whither the weeding of this Comon Wealth of Vagabonds, condemned
Persons and such as are heere useless and hurtful in wars and
peace, and a settled course taken for the transporting them to
the Indias and thereby principally supplying Jamaica is not
necessary to be consulted."

Among the Povey papers is one entitled "Certain propositions for the
better accommodating the Forreigne Plantacons with Servants," which
Povey may have drawn up. He