The decision of the Commissioners for Foreign Plantations in July, 1633, Disallowing the Virginia claim to unoccupied lands, was construed by the Virginians to mean that the king at any rate intended to respect actual possession.
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
He drew up a most able report of the state of the provinces, combined with recommendations of the course to be pursued toward them in future, so judicious that subsequent ministers, though widely differing from his views of general politics, saw no better plan than that which he had suggested; but, unhappily, the measures which he himself adopted, especially with respect to the treatment of those who had been leaders in the late rebellion, were such manifest violations of law, that the government at home had no alternative but that of Disallowing some of them, and carrying a bill of indemnity for others.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
There was a regular scale of salaries for employees, and rules of conduct such as the one Disallowing any clerk of the India House from going to play houses, dancing schools, or taverns.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly