Excerpt from Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations From April 1704 to February 1708-09 Preserved in the Public Record Office The printing of the Journals of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, usually known as Board of Trade Journals, has been undertaken with two objects lighten the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, and so accelerate its progress, and to provide a means of access to the original papers not yet calendared_. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.