have heard that before ever the King your Master pretended to Cannida, the Indians so farr as

the South Sea were under the English Dominion and always traded with Albany Maryland and Virbut that according to your desire with very good reason is wholly referred to our Masters, and I heartily pray that neither you nor myselfe give occasion of any of the least misunderstanding between them but that a prosperous correspondence stricht amity and union may perpettually bee

ginia,

continued between those monarchs, The stricktest care shall be taken concerning runawayes from you and those who are here if you please to send for them shall bee all conveyed to you but if

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there bee any soldiers who have deserted, I desire you to give me the assurance that they shall not loose their lives,

And now, Sir. I beg your pardon for giveing you the trouble of my particular when my Prince called me out of the French service twenty five thousand

affairs which is thus

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livres were due to me as was stated and certifyed to Mons r De Lenoy by the Intendant of Nancy

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had no time to kisse the King's hands and petition for itt a very great misfortune after so long service, for in the circumstances I was then in I served faithfully to the uttermost of my power. After I quitted France I went to Tangier and haveing left that place sometime after came hither so that I never had time to represent my case to His Majesty which I request you to espouse for me that so by your means I may obtaine either all or at least some part of that stay was so short that I