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sions bf this celebrated statute, so far as they re¬ 
late to the plantation trade, and they are extended 
and strengthened by a law which passed three 
years afterwards, which the plantation governors 
are also sworn to enforce; for by the 15 th of Cha. 
II, C. 7, it is enacted, that no commodity of the 
growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, 
shall be imported into the British plantations, but 
such as are laden and put on board in England, 
Wales, or Berwick; and in English built shipping, 
(or ships taken as prize, and certified according to 
a former act) whereof the master and three fourths 
of the mariners are English, and carried directly to 
the said plantations. There is an exception howe¬ 
ver as to salt for the fisheries of New England 
and Newfoundland, wines from Madeira and the 
Azores, and horses and victuals from Ireland and 
Scotland; and the preamble to the act, after stating 
that plantations are formed by citizens of the mo¬ 
ther country, assigns the motive for this restriction 
to be, “ the maintaining a greater correspondence 
and kindness between the subjects at home and 
those in the plantations, keeping the colonies in a 
firmer dependance upon the mother country, making 
them yet more beneficial and advantageous to it in 
the further employment and increase of English 
shipping, vent of English manufactures and com¬ 
modities; rendering the navigation to and from 
them more safe and cheap, and making this king¬ 
dom a staple, not only of the commodities of the 
plantations, but also of the commodities of oilier 
countries and places for the supply of them, it be - 
