The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[724]. Beer, Old Colonial System, vol. I, pp. 319 ff.; Origins of the British Colonial System, p. 294; Osgood, American Colonies, pp. 111, 139 ff.

[725]. Efforts were continually made, however, to secure naval stores from her. Cf., under the Commonwealth, Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, pp. 392, 399.

[726]. Cf. J. Winthrop, History, vol. II, pp. 29 f.; V. S. Clark, Manufacturing in the U. S., pp. 31, 34, 40, 50.

[727]. Beer, Origins, pp. 268, 285 f.; Old Colonial System, vol. II, pp. 210, 221, 230 ff.

[728]. Mims, Colbert's West Indian Policy, pp. 224, f.

[729]. C. D'Avenant, “On the Plantation Trade, 1698,” in his Discourses on the Public Revenue, etc. (London, 1771), vol. II, p. 9; Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 430.

[730]. New Haven Colonial Records, vol. I, p. 180; G. L. Beer, “Cromwell's Policy in its Economic Aspects,” Political Science Quarterly, vol. XVI, p. 611.

[731]. The main idea seems to have been the peopling of the island with English—"from Nevis, St. Christopher's, New England, or any of the other plantations in America." Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, pp. 450, 453. Cf. also F. Strong, “The Causes of Cromwell's West Indian Expedition,” American Historical Review, vol. IV, pp. 229 ff.; I. S., A brief and perfect Journal of the late proceedings and success, etc. (London, 1655), pp. 2 ff.; The Clarke Papers (Camden Society, 1899), pp. 203 ff.

[732]. Mims, Colbert's West Indian Policy, p. 194.

[733]. Cf. Dutch prohibition of colonial manufactures, in Egerton, Origin and Growth of British Dominions, p. 118 n.; Beer, Old Colonial System, vol. I, p. 150, for Portuguese policy.