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cuted. In the progress of the trial suspicions having been 

 excited against the Earl and Countess of Somerset, as 

 having been deeply concerned in this barbarous act ; their 



5. War of invasion. 6- Be always prepared. 7. The navy. 8, 9. Tack 

 ling, sails, and cordage. 10. True art of building of ships. 11. Powder 

 and ammunition. 12. With mariners and seamen. 13. Sea captains and 

 commanders, and other officers. 14. Amity and alliance with the Hol 

 landers. 15. Scotland. 16. Civil war. 17. Competition to the crown. 

 18, 19, 20. A king to have a convenient stock of treasure. 21. Magazine 

 of all sorts. 22. Expert and able commanders. 23. Governing military 

 affairs in times of peace. 24. The faithful, the traitorous, the neutrals. 



vi. Trade. 



1. The home trade. 2. Improve lands. 3. Planting of orchards. 4. 

 Gardens. 5. Hop-yards. 6. Planting and preserving woods. 7. Drain 

 ing of drowned lands. 8. Dairies. 9. Land gained from forests and 

 chases; due care that the poor commoners have no injury. 10. The 

 making navigable rivers. 11. The planting of hemp and flax. 12. Linen 

 cloth or cordage. 13. Wools and leather. 14. Costly laces. 15. The 

 breeding of cattle. 16. The minerals of the kingdom. 17. Fishing. 18. 

 Merchandise in foreign parts. 19. Returns in solid commodities. 20. 

 Monopolies. 21. Commission for the managing of these. 



VIT. Colonies. 



1. Choice of the place. 2. Colonies raised by leave of the King, not 

 by command. 3. Fit governor. 4. Dependency upon the crown of Eng 

 land. 5. General, the common law of England; when plantation settled, 

 courts of justice as in England. 6. Assistance of some able and military 

 man. 7. The discipline of the church. 8. One continent. 9. Houses; 

 plant. 10. Woods; minerals. 11. Build vessels and ships. 12. Wicked 

 person nor suffered to go into those countries. 13. No merchant suffered 

 to work upon their necessities. 14. Subordinate council. 15. The King s 

 profit. 



vin. Court and Curiality. 



1. The King must be exemplary. 2. But your greatest care must be, 

 that the great men of his court, for you must give me leave to be plain with 

 you, for so is your injunction laid upon me, yourself in the first place, who 

 are first in the eye of all men, give no just cause of scandal, either by light, 

 or vain, or by oppressive carriage. 3. The great officers of the King. 4. 

 Ministerial officers. 5. Leave the ordering of household affairs to the 

 white staffs. 6. Green-cloth. 7. His majesty s own table. 8. Preserve 



