th
trade and plantations. Thus the spirit of the Independent wing of the
old commission continued to influence the policy of the government
in the early years of the Commonwealth period. The Council of State,
appointed by act of the Rump Parliament, was given full authority to
provide for England's trade at home and abroad and to regulate the
affairs of the plantations. Though its membership underwent yearly
changes and its composition and members were altered many times before
1660, its policy and machinery of control remained constant except as
far as they were affected by the greater power which the Council gained
in the face of the growing weakness of Parliament.

* * * * *

[Footnote 1: Privy Council Register, James I, Vol. V, p. 173; repeated
p. 618.]

[Footnote 2: P.C.R., Charles I. Vol. V, p. 106.]

[Footnote 3: P.C.R., Charles I, Vol. IX, p. 291.]

[Footnote 4: Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1574-1660, p. 170, Sec. 78.]

[Footnote 5: Rymer, Foedera XVII. pp. 410-414.]

[Footnote 6: Public Record Office, Chancery, Crown Dockets, 4, p. 280,
June 26, 1622.]

[Footnote 7: P.C.R., James I, Vol. VI, pp. 333, 365-368, July, 1624.]

[Footnote 8: Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as
Remembrancia preserved among the Archives of the City of London,
1579-1644, p. 526.]

[Footnote 9: Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1625-1649, pp. 4, 84.]

[Footnote 10: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1625-1649, pp. 225, 522, Sec.Sec. 19,
20, p. 495.]

[Footnote 11: P.C.R., Charles I, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 68.]

[Footnote 12: P.C.R., Charles I, Vols. V, p. 10; VI, p. 7; X., p. 3;
XII, p. 1; XV, p. 1.]

[Footnote 13: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1629-1631, p. 526; 1634-1635,
pp. 453, 472, 513, 584; 1635, pp. 30, 515, 548, 598; 1635-1636,
pp. 44, 231; 1636-1637, p. 402; 1637, pp. 47; 1637-1638, p. 410.
The secretaries' notes will be found as follows: Coke, 1629-1631, pp.
526, 535; Windebank, 1634-1635, pp. 500, 513; 1635, pp. 11-12, 29, 502,
536; 1635-1636, pp. 291-292, 428-429, 551-552; 1636-1637, pp. 402; 1637,
p. 47.]

[Footnote 14: Historical MSS. Commission, Report XV. Manuscripts of the
Duke of Portland, VIII, pp. 2-3.]

[Footnote 15: Cal. State Papers, Col., 1574-1660, pp. 44, 62, 63, 64,
130; Virginia Magazine, VIII, pp. 29, 33-46, 149.]

[Footnote 16: Bradford, pp. 352-355; P.C.R., Charles I, Vol. VIII, pp.
346-347; Cal. State Papers, Col., 1574-1660, p. 158.]

[Footnote 17: P.C.R., Ch