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The Commissioners for Trade and Plantations was a body formed by the British Crown on 15 May 1696 to promote trade and to inspect and improve the plantations of the British colonies. It was the successor of various previous bodies set up in the seventeenth century, particularly the Lords of Trade and Plantations (1675–1696). It lasted until ...
The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade. [1] Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, but is commonly known as the Board of Trade, and formerly known as the Lords of Trade and ...
The two were united on 16 September 1672 as the Board of Trade and Plantations. After the Board was re-established in 1696, there were 15 (and later 16) members of the Board – the 7 (later 8) great officers of state, and eight unofficial members, who did the majority of the work. The senior unofficial board member was the board president ...
John Reeves, who wrote the handbook for the Board of Trade, [49] considered the 1696 act to be the last major navigation act, with relatively minor subsequent acts. The system established by this act, and upon previous acts, was where the Navigation Acts still stood in 1792, [ 50 ] though there would be major policy changes followed by their ...
In 1675, named the Lords of Trade and Plantations, the committee had gained a more stable form. It was structurally replaced by what is now called the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in 1696, although the commissioners were still regularly referred to as the Lords commissioners. [1]
The English government revised its colonial structure and in 1696 created the Board of Trade to handle colonial relations. About the same time, the House of Burgesses decided to move the colony's capital from Jamestown (notoriously unhealthy in summers) to Williamsburg, and Jenings clearly supervised much of the transition in 1699-1700, though ...
President of the Board of Trade (1696–1782; 1784–present) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1413–present) Postmaster General (1823–1968) Paymaster of the Forces (1661–1836) Master-General of the Ordnance (1544–1855) Master of the Mint (1572–1869) Treasurer of the Navy (1544–1836) Secretary at War (1661–1863)
Appellate jurisdiction was delegated to the Board of Trade in 1679 and transferred to the Privy Council Appeals Committee in 1696. [18] The Appeals Committee was severely flawed because its membership was actually a committee of the whole of the Privy Council, of whom a quorum was three. Even worse, many Privy Councillors were not lawyers, all ...