arriving from Jersey, a committee was established on November 8, 1661, to hear and to determine such appeals. 413 Several months later (February 5, 1661/2) a committee for Guernsey appeals was established on somewhat different terms. 414 As far as can be determined from the Privy Council registers, the Lord Privy Seal and the Vice-Chamberlain were the mainstays of both committees; no other designated members attended regularly. 415 These committees are representative of the great proliferation of Council committees which took place between 1660 and 1667. 416 In February, 1667/8, in an endeavor to strengthen the committee system, four standing committees of the Council were established—for foreign affairs, for military and naval matters, for trade, and for grievances and complaints. The Committee for Trade was to consider whatever related to the foreign plantations, Ireland, Scotland, and Jersey and Guernsey. It was also further ordered that "this Committee calling unto them his Majestys Attorney Generall, or else his Majestys Advocate, do from henceforward heare all Causes that by way of Appeale come from the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey." 417 But surviving referees, were to have notice to attend (PC 2/55/338). Upon a committee report that certain factual issues should be tried below, an Order in Council issued to that effect (pc 2/55/348). *i" "For as much as appeales are many tymes brought for delayes to hinder justice; it is thought fitt and ordered, that no appeale shall be allowed in any case under twenty pounds sterling; and that all appeales whatsoever shall be prosecuted between the beginning of Easter terme and the end of midsomer terme and not otherwise. And it was further thought fitt and ordered, that the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of St. Albans, Governor for the island of Jersey, Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, Mr. Sec. Nicholas, Mr. Sec. Morice or any two of them, calling unto them his Majesty's Attorney General and Sollicitor General and his Majesty's Advocate, or any one of them bee hereby authorized a Committee for the hearing and determining of all appeales to be brought as aforesaid, and in case the person appealing shall not presente his appeal with effect before the said Lords Committee within the time before limited, then the defendant to be dismissed with good damages for his unjust molestation, and such further penalty as their Lordships shall thinke fitt" (PC 2/55/437). In November, 1666, the Lord Chamberlain of the King's Household and Lord Berkeley were added to the committee (PC 2/59/225). 414 No appeals were to be allowed under the value of forty pounds in goods or chattels and forty shillings of yearly rent of inheritance; all appeals were to be prosecuted with effect within one year and a day after sentence below. The committee was to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Hatton, governor of Guernsey, the Vice-Chamberlain, Secretary Nicholas, and Secretary Morice or any two of them. The provisions for calling in the Attorney General and Solicitor General and the King's Advocate and for sanctions for nonprosecution were the same as for Jersey (PC 2/55/538). 415 The difficulty of discovering the working personnel lies in the fact that many committee orders were entered under Council headings, so that the committeemen present when the order was issued cannot be determined. At practically every meeting the Lord Privy Seal and the Vice-Chamberlain were present. In about one-half the recorded meetings a third member was present; larger attendance was rare. For practical purposes the two separately named committees appear to have been one. 416 Seventy-two temporary and standing committees have been listed as appointed for the years 1660-67 (2 Turner, op. cit., 189; Evans, The Principal Secretary of State [1923], 233). il7 Order in Council of February 12, 1667/8 (PC 2/60/176), printed in part in 1 APC, Col., #747. This committee consisted of the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Ormond, the Earl of Ossory, the