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avoid domestic interference, the House of Commons, composed of the
King's friends, was to be adjourned from session to session and no
elections were to be permitted except to fill vacancies, and these were
to be carefully managed.  To defeat Dutch interference, a pact was made
with the emerging Louis XIV, kinsman of Charles II, and treaties were
negotiated with
Spain and Portugal which gave England control of the entrance to the
Mediterranean, ownership of Bombay and free access to Latin American
ports.  Would the elaborate programme succeed and all the settlements
of New England, the South and the West Indies be brought into complete
subordination?
 
 
                             IV                             
Sir William Berkeley, most eminent of all the plantation governors, was
in London from the early summer of 1661 till the autumn of 1662,
instructed and highly paid by his people to resist all commercial
restraints upon tobacco planters. He lived with his elder brother, Lord
John, and could hardly escape the influence of another brother,