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lade and deposit such provisions as are after to be 

 employed. 



The second is, that your majesty would make a 

 correspondency between the commission there, and a 

 council of plantation here : wherein I warrant myself 

 by the precedent of the like council of plantation for 

 Virginia ; an enterprise in my opinion differing as 

 much from this, as Amadis de Gaul differs from 

 Caesar s Commentaries. But when I speak of a 

 council of plantation, I mean some persons chosen 

 by way of reference, upon whom the labour may 

 rest, to prepare and report things to the council of 

 estate here, that concern that business. For although 

 your majesty have a grave and sufficient council in 

 Ireland ; from whom, and upon whom, the commis 

 sioners are to have assistance and dependence; yet 

 that supplies not the purpose whereof 1 speak. For, 

 considering, that upon the advertisements, as well of 

 the commissioners, as of the council of Ireland itself, 

 there will be many occasions to crave directions from 

 your majesty and your privy council here, which are 

 busied with a world of affairs ; it cannot but give 

 greater expedition, and some better perfection unto 

 such directions and resolutions, if the matters may be 

 considered of aforehand by such as may have a con 

 tinual care of the cause. And it will be likewise a 

 comfort and satisfaction to some principal under 

 takers, if they may be admitted of that council. 



Secondly, There is a clause wherein the under 

 takers are restrained, that they shall execute the 



