the creation of these committees did not prevent the formation of other ad hoc 
committees for Channel Islands references. 418 When this Committee for Trade 
was undermined by the appointment in 1670 of select Councils for Trade and 
for Plantations, 419 a separate committee for Jersey and Guernsey probably 
handled insular matters. 420 In 1679 another reformation of the conciliar committee 
system took place, by which the Council was reduced in numbers to 
thirty, and it was ordered that the Committee for Trade and Plantations be 
likewise a "Committee for the affairs of Jersey and Guernsey." 421 After the 
Revolution of 1688 the same persons who composed the Committee for Trade 
and Foreign Plantations were constituted and appointed a Committee for the 
affairs of Jersey and Guernsey. 422 No further important institutional change is 
found until the establishment of the Board of Trade in 1696. 
Turning now to the administration of the plantations, we find that a conciliar 
Committee for Trade and Plantations was appointed on July 4, 1660. 423 
But in December of the same year matters of colonial administration were 
segregated and delegated to an advisory Council for Foreign Plantations, to 
which merchants and "colonial experts" were appointed. 424 Early in 1665 
colonial administration reverted to conciliar hands and was subdivided among 
numerous committees. 425 In February, 1667/8, as we have seen, plantation 
Earl of Bridgewater, the Earl of Anglesey, the 
Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Arlington, Lord 
Holies, Lord Ashley, the Comptroller, the Vice- 
Chamberlain, Secretary Morice, Sir William 
Coventry. The usual day of meeting was to 
be every Thursday in the Council Chamber 
and oftener as the presiding officer directed; 
three or more were to be a quorum. After the 
orders on appeals had been prepared in due 
form by the Clerk of the Council they were 
to be read and approved at the Council Board 
before being signed, so that they could receive 
the approbation and authority of the whole 
Council "which before used to passe distinctly 
from the Committee only by a derivative 
power from the Board." Compare the earlier 
committee regulation of January 31, 1667/8, 
which omitted mention of hearing of appeals 
as a committee function (Andrews, British 
Committees, 88-90). In October, 1668, Sir 
John Trevor, principal Secretary of State, was 
added to all committees (PC 2/61/67). 
41S On May 24, 1665, a committee was appointed 
to consider the petition of the inhabitants 
of Guernsey against Governor 
Hatton and his answer thereto (PC 2/58/149). 
On July 22, 1668, a petition of Jerseymen was 
referred to the Earl of Craven and the Vice- 
Chamberlain (PC 2/60/394). 
419 Andrews, British Committees, 97. 
420 See PC 2/65/74; 2 Turner, op. cit., 200- 
201. 
421 PC 2/68/26. For composition of the committee, 
twenty-two in number, see 1 APC, Col., 
pp. 819-20. The reform failed in its main 
purposes, but it served to keep reduced the 
number of Privy Councilors; see 2 Turner, 
op. cit., c. xvii; Davies, Council and Cabinet, 
1679-88, 37 EHR, 47-52. 
422 PC 2/73/21 (February 26, 1688/9). For 
composition of the committee see the February 
16, 1688/9, Order in Council (PC 2/73/8; 
CSP, Col., 1689-92, #17). Lord Lumley was 
added to both committees by the February 26 
order. Lord Godolphin was added to all committees 
on November 20, 1690 (PC 2/74/56). 
The Earl of Bridgewater was appointed to the 
Committee for Trade and Plantations and the 
Committee for Ireland in May, 1691 (PC 
2 /74/i7 2 )- But he also attended meetings of 
the Committee for Jersey and Guernsey. 
423 1 APC, Col, #484; 3 Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. 
N.Y., 30. 
424 Andrews, British Committees, 67. 
425 Ibid., 79-80.