Excerpt from Life of Reports and Representations of the Plantation Councils, 1660 1674, the Lords of Trade, 1675 1696, and the Board of Trade, 1696 1782, in the Public Record OfficeThe total number of the reports and representations drafted dur ing the years from 1661 to 1782 can not be less than For the purpose of this report entries have been listed, of which 591 belong to the period before 1696, and to the period from 1696 to 17 82, representing the output of the Board of Trade. The list, however, is not complete, as some of the Communications were either not recorded, or, if recorded, have not been discovered. But in any case the omissions can not be numerous, probably not exceeding fifty altogether.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.