The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[744]. Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, pp. 7 ff. The provinces were the equivalents of English counties.

[745]. Cf. Andrews, British Committees, pp. 12 ff.; P. L. Kaye, The Colonial Executive prior to the Restoration (J. H. U. S.), pp. 55 ff.

[746]. Andrews, British Committees, pp. 38, 56, 67 ff.

[747]. Andrews, British Committees, where the texts of the Instructions and of Povey's Overtures are both given.

[748]. The membership included Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, who had served on Plantation Committees during the Interregnum; Robert Boyle, President of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England; Sir Peter Leere and Sir James Draxe, old Barbadian planters; Povey, Noell, Digges, and Colleton, all merchants and experts on colonial trade. Ibid., pp. 76 f.

[749]. Ibid., p. 76.

[750]. Acts Privy Council, Colonial, 1613-1680, p. xi.

[751]. Cf. L. P. Kellogg, “The American Colonial Charter,” Annual Report, American Historical Association, 1903, vol. I, p. 228; E. P. Tanner, “Colonial Agencies in England during the 18th Century,” Political Science Quarterly, vol. XVI, pp. 24 ff.

[752]. Mahan, Sea Power, p. 96. Cf. Leroy-Beaulieu, De la Colonisation chez les peuples modernes, vol. I, pp. 113 ff.

[753]. G. Edmundson, Anglo-Dutch Rivalry (Oxford, 1912), pp. 36 ff., 79, 154.