... advancement, and encouragement of the trade of England and Ireland and the dominions to them belonging, and to promote thegood of all foreign plantations and factories belonging to the Commonwealth. ... to Massachusetts, Plymouth,New Haven, Rhode Island, Newfoundland, Maryland and Virginia, Barbadoes, Nevis, Providence Island, and the Caribbee Islands in general. It dealt with the proposed attack ... ofmerchant ships, privateer's commissions and letters of marque; the Greenland and Newfoundland fisheries,naval stores, and land disputes. It drafted bills and governors' commissions, considered...