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suffered to go into those countries ; or, if they do 

 creep in there, not to be harboured or continued : 

 else, the place would receive them naught, and 

 return them into England, upon all occasions, worse. 



13. That no merchant, under colour of driving a 

 trade thither or from thence, be suffered to work 

 upon their necessities. 



14. And that to regulate all these inconveni 

 ences, which will insensibly grow upon them, that 

 the king be pleased to erect a subordinate council in 

 England, whose care and charge shall be, to advise, 

 and put in execution, all things which shall be found 

 fit for the good of those new plantations ; who, upon 

 all occasions, shall give an account of their proceed 

 ings to the king, or to the council-board, and from 

 them receive such directions as may best agree with 

 the government of that place. 



15. That the king s reasonable profit be not neg 

 lected, partly upon reservation of moderate rents 

 and services ; and partly upon customs ; and partly 

 upon importation and exportation of merchandise ; 

 which for a convenient time after the plantation 

 begin, would be very easy, to encourage the work : 

 but, after it is well settled, may be raised to a consi 

 derable proportion, worthy the acceptation. 



[Yet these cautions are to be observed in these 

 undertakings. 



1. That no man be compelled to such an em 

 ployment; for that were a banishment, and not a 

 service fit for a free man. 



2. That if any transplant themselves into plan- 



