[Footnote 18: Egerton, 2395, ff. 449, 451, 452, 453; Cal. State Papers,
Col., 1661-1668, Sec.Sec. 1598-1600.]

[Footnote 19: Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 25115, f. 156; Cal. State Papers,
Dom., 1661-1662, pp. 411-412.]

[Footnote 20: Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 25115; Cal. State Papers, Dom.,
1660-1661, pp. 356, 359, 363, 372, 412; 1661-1662 pp. 28, 80.]

[Footnote 21: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1660-1661, pp. 383, 532;
1661-1662, pp. 111, 277, 529, 446; Bodleian, Rawlinson MSS., A. 478, f.
81.]

[Footnote 22: Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 25115, ff. 133-140; Cal. State
Papers, Treasury Books, 1660-1667, pp. 245-247, containing the list of
convoys, a duplicate of that in the British Museum volume; p. 250, the
Treasurer's report.]

[Footnote 23: Brit. Mus., Egerton, 2543, ff. 137-139.]

[Footnote 24: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1663-1664, pp. 515, 549.
The Fishing Commission, appointed in 1661, had proved a failure, but
the council borrowed from the patent of that commission many of the
suggestions which it recommended. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1661-1662,
p. 83.]

[Footnote 25: Cf. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1661-1662, p. 83.]

[Footnote 26: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1665-1666, p. 330. Yet Crispe's
letter (_ante_, p. 75, note) certainly speaks as if the Council had a
continuous existence from 1660 to 1668, and the mention of Exeter House
as its place of meeting after 1667 points in the same direction.]

[Footnote 27: "Some considerations about the commission for trade,"
P.R.O. Shaftesbury MSS., Div. X, 8(1).]

[Footnote 28: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1663-1664, pp. 528, 531, 543,
572, 573, 588.]

[Footnote 29: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1661-1662, pp. 75, 135-136, 149.]

[Footnote 30: 19 Charles II, c. 13.]

[Footnote 31: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1667-1668, pp. 156, 158, 165,
173, 180, 187, 191, 247, 321, 433, 444, 452, 511, 593, 594; 1668-1669,
pp. 35, 40.]

[Footnote 32: Brit. Mus., Egerton MSS., 2543, ff. 205-205^{b}. Endorsed
"Regulation of Committees of the Councill. Read & Ordered in Councill
the 31^{st} January, 1667^{b}." For reasons that cannot be explained
this regulation is not entered in the Privy Council Register. It is
referred to in a similar order of February 12, 1668, P.C.R., Charles II,
Vol. VII, pp. 176-177, but otherwise omitted. For this reason the
document is here printed in full. Cf. Cal. State Papers, Dom.,
1667-1668, p. 261.]

[Footnote 33: For instance, there are among the Colonial Papers memoranda
of