In 1672 Colonel Lockhart's plan for a colony of Scotch Presbyterians in Carolina had come to nought,16 but a decade later increasing persecutions revived the scheme. Indeed., two separate projects for southern colonization by Scots were brought forward in 1682. The Lords of Trade frowned upon the petition of James, Earl of Doncaster and Dalkeith, for a great proprietary grant of 'Florida, Cape Florida, and Guiana,' and laid down a policy of opposition to further proprietary 27 grants. The Spanish, Doncast~r had argued, could hardly claim to hold the unoccupied portions of Florida by virtue only of 'two small Castles.'17 [Note: The Lords of Trade reported 'that it is not convenient ... to constitute any new propriety in America]