The colonial historian Charles McLean Andrews traces the forerunners of the Board of Trade: the committees, commissions and councils through which England tried to supervise its commerce and its American and Caribbean colonies under James I and Charles I, during the Interregnum and after the Restoration, including the merchant proposals of Noell and Povey and the plantation councils of 1670 and 1672.
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