to His
Ma^{ties} Plantations contrary to the law."[41]

Under this order Edward Digges, former governor of Virginia and a London
merchant well known to us, was appointed by the farmers of the customs
as a fit person to execute for the colony of Virginia the articles and
instructions contained in this order. No other appointments, however,
appear to have been made at this time.[42]

After 1670 activities of the Council of Trade, as far as they are
recorded, are very few. It considered the trade of the Eastland Company,
provided for a supply of coal for London at reasonable rates, and
discussed a few minor petitions, but as compared with its contemporary,
the Council for Foreign Plantations, it accomplished little.[43]

* * * * *

[Footnote 1: Cal. State Papers, Col., 1514-1660, pp. 482, 483; P.C.R.,
Charles II, Vol. II, p. 63; New York Colonial Docts., III, p. 30.]

[Footnote 2: P.C.R., Charles II, Vol. II, p. 37; Bodleian, Rawlinson A.,
117, No. 20.]

[Footnote 3: Professor Osgood thinks that a part of Noell's fortune was
made in the slave trade. Beyond the fact that he was a member of the
Royal African Company, I cannot find any evidence whatever to prove this
statement. Noell certainly was not a slave trader before 1660.]

[Footnote 4: Bodleian, Clarendon Papers, _passim_, New York Hist.
Soc. Collections, 1869; Brit. Museum, Add. MSS., 11410, ff. 18 et seq.
Clarendon had an agent in Jamaica, Major Ivy, who was considering the
setting up of plantations and planting cocoa walks in the interest of
the King's revenue. Clarendon's policy toward the continental colonies
overshadows somewhat his policy toward the West Indies and in
consequence this phase of the subject has been neglected by those who
have dealt with Clarendon's colonial relations.]

[Footnote 5: P.C.R., Charles II, Vol. II, pp. 131-132; printed in part
in Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the Remembrancia,
preserved among the Archives of the City of London, 1579-1664.
(Privately printed, 1878); and in very much abbreviated form in
Bannister, Writings of William Patterson, III, 251-252, from whom it has
been copied by both Egerton and Cunningham. It seems somewhat strange
that there should be no entry of the receipt of this letter in the
journal of the court of Aldermen nor any draft of an answer among the
Remembrancia or elsewhere. A careful search has failed to disclose any
reference to action