Willyam Leveriches, but they grant this instead of delivering the bond have this day demanded the moneys of James Christed,

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this is therefore to intreate your honiiours to tak our condission into your consideration and tak some spedy conrs for our fatter peace and con)forte. We are unwillinge to loose our planting by them. This hoping you will now stand by us, we rest your loving neighbours and friends the inhabitance of Hastine." By me,

James Bradish,

Clarke for Hasting. To the honored Court Mr. John Winthrop and his Honorable Counsiil of the Court of Connecticut, assembled at Hartford, this present with speed.=^ During the year 1663, King Charles the Second, by letters patent under the great seal, conveyed tlie Province of New Netherlands, and that part of Cotmecticut lying westward of Connecticut river, to his brother James, Duke of York and Albany. Thus by a wholesale usurpation excluding for ever the rightful proprietors, utterly regardless of their just rights as discoverers, and in the face too of all existing treaties.

Whilst the King was disposing of the New Netherlands in this unlawful manner, we find Governor Stuyvesant thus complaining to Governor Winthrop and the General Assembly of Connecticut, "That John Coe, Jun., and Antliony Waters with eighty horse and foot have put down the old magistrates in some towns, and setting up others." He trusts the English will suppress such things, and prevent bloodshed. Dat. Amsterdam, N. N. Nov. 15, 1663.b

As early as 1641 it appears to have been the British policy as one means of counteracting the Dutch in America, " that the English put forward their plantations, and crowd on, crowding the Dutch out of those places where they have settled ;"•= this continued to be the principle upon which the former acted until the subjugation of ihe latter, which happened 5th Septem-