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affifted by tkree other proprietors, the executive powers in mofl cafes 

 were lodged ; and thofe four conftituted the palatine court, whofe de- 

 puties in Carolina aded by their diredions. Its parliament confifted, 

 lin the upper houfe, of the proprietors or their deputies, with the go- 

 vernor, council, caciques, and landgraves ; and the commons, or lower 

 houfe, were elected as in other colonies. 



The king granted a patent to 60 perfons, and to all others of his fub- 

 jedts, that had within feven years pad traded to the Canaries to the va- 

 lue of Li 000 yearly ; and alio to all others who fliould be admitted, 

 whereby they were conftituted a body-politic, and were to enjoy the 

 fole trade to the Canary iflands, under a governor, deputy-governor, and 

 twelve alTiftants. The grounds for this charter, as let forth in its pream- 

 ble, were, that the trade to the Canary illes was formerly of greater 

 advantage to the king's fubjeds than at this time ; that by reafon of 

 the too much accefs and trading of fubjeds thither, our merchandize 

 were decreafed in their value, and the Canary wines, on the other hand, 

 were increafed to double their former value ; fo that the king's fubjeds 

 were forced to carry filver and bullion thither to get wines ; and that 

 all this was owing to want of regulation in trade *. This company, in 

 fpite of the mn objlante in their charter to the ftatute of monopolies, had 

 judgment given againfl them in the year 1667, when both houfes of 

 parliament, in an addrefs to the king, thanked him for revoking their 

 patent. And the third article of the impeachment of the lord chan- 

 cellor Clarendon, by the houfe of commons, directly charges him with 

 having received great fums of money for procuring this and other ille- 

 gal patents. 



This year (according to the fupplement to Puffendorf's Tntrodudion 

 to the hiflory of Europe) the flate of Genoa made the firll: attempt for 

 a treaty of commerce with Turkey, by their envoy going thither, un- 

 der the protedion of Count Lelley, the imperial ambafliidor, though 

 much oppofed by France. But (fays de Mailly, V. i'li, l. 17) with all 

 their endeavours they were not able to put off a fufficiency of their 

 woollen cloth, in the goodnefs of which they were excelled by the En^- 

 li-fh and Dutch, nor of their lilver coin of five fols, (counterfeited from 

 the French coin of that name, then in great credit in Turkey) which . 

 the Turks named themins, to fupport the expenfe and dignity of their 

 refident at Conftautinople, and their conful at Smyrna ; io that this at- 

 tempt proved abortive. They again made a frefli attempt for this pur- 

 pofe in the year 1675, which alfo proved abortive, and we have not 

 heard, that they have ever attempted it fince. The Genoefe, in their 

 firft attempt, took advantage of the alliftance which France had afford— 



* The word regulation was in thofe days raueh uffd, but little u:;Jer!lood, and often mifapplied. j4j 



