lating to the Royal Fishery and the establishing thereof from the
year 1660 for divers successive years in which are contained several
projections concerning the promoting the same. And there are also books
and minutes of the proceedings of the Council of Trade from the year
1660 to 1668, which also contain several material things in relation to
Trade and the improvement thereof, which I understand are in the power
of a friend of mine.

"These books and papers will be disposed of as the Hon^{ble} Board the
Council of Trade shall direct or order.

"But it is humbly desired that consideration be allowed the party that
shall produce these Books and Papers. And that it may be ascertained
what that consideration shall be and by whom it shall be given.

"I was desired to inform you of this to the end you may take such steps
therein as you in your great prudence shall judge most proper.

"If any orders or commands shall be given about this affair that I can
be useful or serviceable therein & they be transmitted for me or be left
at Johns Coffee House in Bedford St. near the Church in Convent Garden
such orders will be faithfully observed by

"S^{rs} Your faithfull humble Servant
"H. CRISPE."

Crispe sent a list of the books with his letter, but that list is
missing. The Board answered that it would not buy the books without
seeing them first, but as we find no further mention of the matter in
the Journal and as the books and papers are not to be found to-day the
probabilities are that the negotiations fell through. Journal, XIX,
p. 296; Board of Trade Papers, Trade, H Nos. 74, 76.]

[Footnote 12: This may be inferred from the following note attached to
one of the reports: "The council conceiving themselves to be in noe
capacitie of giving any judgment therein having heard but one side."
Egerton, 2395, f. 299.]

[Footnote 13: See Cal. State Papers, Col., 1675-1676, Sec.Sec. 338, 339, where
he is called "Secretary for Foreign Plantations."]

[Footnote 14: Egerton, 2395, ff. 286, 291, 299, 335, 336.]

[Footnote 15: Cal. State Papers, Col., 1661-1668, Sec.Sec. 790, 833; Dom.,
1664-1665, p. 4.]

[Footnote 16: In December, 1665, he wrote of "an uncomfortable journey
on unfrequented roads, with none to break the ice, in a hackney coach
which receives the wind in all parts." Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1665,
p. 105.]

[Footnote 17: P.C.R., Charles II, Vol. VI, p. 231; Cal. State Papers,
Col., 1661-1668, Sec. 1685.]