Company, for the tyme beinge, as shall bee then and there present.... [Provisions for temporary government; for prevention of Indian troubles in relation to other colonies; for boundaries, etc.] #And further#, our will and pleasure is, that in all matters of publique controversy which may fall out betweene our Collony of Providence Plantations, and the rest of our Collonies in New-England, itt shall and may bee lawful to and for the Governour and Company of the sayd Collony of Providence Plantations to make their appeals therein to us, our heirs and successours, for redresse in such cases, within this our realme of England:[90] and that itt shall be lawfull to and for the inhabitants of the sayd Collony of Providence Plantations, without let or molestation, to passe and repasse with freedome, into and through the rest of the English Collonies, upon their lawfull and civill occasions, and to converse, and hold commerce and trade, with such of the inhabitants of our other English Collonies as shall bee willing to admitt them thereunto, they behaveing themselves peaceably among them; any act, clause or sentence, in any of the sayd Collonies provided, or that shall bee provided, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.... FOOTNOTES: [89] For the conditions under which a despotic king granted these amazingly liberal charters, cf. _American History and Government_. [90] Observe, this is _not_ an appeal from the colonial court by _an individual_. The clause has reference to the troubles, then recent, between Rhode Island and Massachusetts--the latter having threatened to exclude Rhode Island commerce. XIX. AN ENGLISH COLONIAL SYSTEM 99. Instructions for the Councill oppointed for Forraigne Plantations (1660) by Charles II O'Callaghan's _Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York_ (1853), III, 34-36. For the significance of this first permanent "Colonial Department," cf. _American History and Government_, # 95. 1. You shall informe yourselves by the best wayes and meanes you can of the state and condicion of all Forraigne Plantac[i]ons, and by what co[m]missions or authorities they are and have bene governed and disposed of; and are to procure either from such persons as have any graunts thereof from the Croun, or from the records themselves, the copies of all such commissions or graunts, to be transcribed and registered in a booke provided for that purpose, that you may be the better able to understand judge and administer such affaires, as by your commission and instruccions are intrusted to your care and management.