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 which were owned and manned by English subjects, after leaving Virginia sailed at once to Holland, their captains declaring on their departure that they were bound for an English colony, or for the mother country itself. In the instructions given to Berkeley on his resuming executive control in Virginia in 1662, he was expressly commanded, with a view to suppressing further attempts to violate the terms of the Act, to transmit to England a full account of all the tobacco exported from Virginia, the names of the vessels in which it was loaded, the names of the masters of these vessels, and their points of destination. The object of this injunction was not only to inform the commissioners of customs in England of the extent to which the Navigation Act was disregarded, but also to disclose the persons who were guilty of trampling its provisions under foot. It was estimated in 1663, that the illegal