"Whereas notwithstanding divers acts made for the encouragement of the navigation of this kingdom, . . . great abuses are daily committed to the prejudice of the English navigation, and the loss of a great part of the plantation trade to this kingdom, by the artifice and cunning of ill-disposed persons; for remedy whereof for the future. . . .II. Be it enacted, . . . no goods or merchandises whatsoever shall be imported into, or exported out of, any colony or plantation . . . or carried from any one port or place in the said colonies or plantations to any other, ...in any ship or bottom but what is or shall be of the built of England, ... or the said colonies or plantations, and wholly owned by the people thereof."The passage of the Navigation Act of 1696 and other similar legislation by the English Parliament most directly resulted from

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