Domestic,
1650-1651, 1659-1660.]

[Footnote 2: The Council of Trade accumulated in this and other ways a
considerable mass of books and papers, but this material for its history
has entirely disappeared.]

[Footnote 3: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1650, p. 399; 1651, pp. 16, 29,
38, 107, 230; 1651-1652, pp. 87. The first suggestion of this committee
was as early as January 1650, Commons' Journal, VI, p. 347.]

[Footnote 4: Guildhall, Journal of the Proceedings of the Common
Council, Vol. 41, ff. 45, 55; Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1651, pp. 198,
247-249, 270-271; Inderwick, The Interregnum, ch. II.]

[Footnote 5: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1651-1652, pp. 470-472, 479-481.]

[Footnote 6: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1652-1653, p. 282.]

[Footnote 7: British Museum, Add. MSS., 5138, f. 145.]

[Footnote 8: Guildhall, Repertories of the Court of Aldermen, 61, p.
152^{b}.]

[Footnote 9: Guildhall, Journal of the Proceedings of the Common
Council, Vol. 41, pp. 67^{b}, 68.]

[Footnote 10: Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1651-1652, pp. 232, 235. The
question was as to whether or not the Turkey trade could best be carried
on by a company "as now," or by free trade, as in the case of Portugal
and Spain. Able arguments in favor of free trade were brought forward,
and when later the question of a monopoly of the Greenland whale fishing
came up, the Council of State admitted free adventurers to a share in
the business. Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1653-1654, p. 379; 1654, p. 16.]

[Footnote 11: Commons' Journal, VI, p. 140.]

[Footnote 12: Commons' Journal, VI, p. 361.]

[Footnote 13: Commons' Journal, VII, p. 41.]

[Footnote 14: Commons' Journal, VII, p. 220.]

[Footnote 15: Commons' Journal, VII, pp. 283, 284, 285.]

[Footnote 16: Commons' Journal, VII, pp. 343-344; Cal. State Papers,
Dom., 1653-1654, pp. 297-298.]

[Footnote 17: Commons' Journal, VII, pp. 652, 654, 655; Cal. State
Papers, Dom., 1658-1659, p. 349.]

[Footnote 18: Commons' Journal, VII, pp. 800, 849.]

[Footnote 19: P.C.R., Charles II, Vol. I, May 3/13, 1649--September
28, 1660. Meetings of Privy Councils during the Interregnum were held at
Castle Elizabeth, St. Hillary, Breda (1649-1650), Bruges (1656, 1658),
Brussels (1659), Breda (1660), Canterbury (May 27, 1660), Whitehall (May
31, 1660).]

[Footnote 20: Cal. State Papers, Col., 1574-1660, pp. 335, 352, 366;
Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1651-1652, p. 43.]

[Footnote 21: Cal. State Papers, Col., 1574-1660, p. 394;