it o£ their progress therein. 438 But shortly thereafter the Privy Council ordered 
the Council for Trade and Plantations to transmit the state of the matter and 
the reasons of their proceedings therein. 459 The next move in the cause was 
a petition by Rodney for admission of an appeal from the 1670 sentence of 
Governor Russell; this appeal was admitted, and the matter was ordered 
heard at the Board, appellant to give timely notice to all concerned. 460 Upon 
a further petition of Rodney that some persons be appointed to take depositions 
of witnesses produced by petitioner in England and Nevis and that their 
testimony might be admitted upon the hearing, the Lord Keeper was ordered 
to cause a commission or commissions to issue under the Great Seal to persons 
adjudged proper examiners. 461 But there is no evidence as to any further proceedings 
in the appeal. 
As we have seen, toward the end of 1674 an important change was made 
in the conciliar organization. In December the commission of the Council for 
Trade and Plantations, which had been established in 1672, was terminated. 462 
Then, in March, 1674/5, the matters which had been under the care of the 
late Council were committed "to the Committee of this Board appointed for 
Matters relating to Trade and his fforrain Plantations." 463 With this delegation 
we enter into a period of increasing exercise of appellate jurisdiction over 
the colonies. The manner in which this jurisdiction was exercised and its debt 
to the established jurisdiction over Jersey and Guernsey will be the subject of 
the next chapter. 
458 CSP, Col, 1669-74, #1194- 
« 9 PC 2/64/165; CSP, Col., 1669-74, #1207, 
462 CSP, Col., 1669-74, #1412. For conjecture 
as to the reasons for the termination see Andrews, 
British Committees, 111-12; Brown, 
The First Earl of Shaftesbury (1933), 148-49. 
463 1 APC, Col, #1021. 
1225. 
wo PC 2/64/188. 
4«1 PC 2/64/194,