If the Time for ye Surrender had beene certainly prefixt & by a Lesse space, I should not have had [tiie necessity of] giving you this farther Trouble. Now once againe by the same Gentleman I Desire you to lett me [know with certainty when] I ^ my forces may pursuant both to your Sf my Orders [take possession of t^iej Fort and Government you now are [comnia7idvi g] 1 alsoe wish you will take into yor Co^mideration to^ pitch upon a shorter time then you have proposed :

Tliese Gentlemen I -have. now appointed to discourse with you about t]ie [time] thereof that nothing may further intervene to delay it ^for the furthering of which, if you thinke convenient 4" you may please to send some of yor Councell to mee (or whom else you shall thinke fitt to autliorize) that we may haue conference about the same.

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I should bee very glad these matters may bee concluded in a Faire & amicable way I doe hope & will not doubt yo-- effectuall answer, desiring nothing more then a friendly Conference & the honor of seeing and serving you That I may not bee obleged pursuant as I tliink to my duty to justify my proceedings by a publick Protest. And if there yet shall remaine anytliing either publicJc or yo'' private Concernes, if you please to let me Know it by these Gentlemen or any of them I shall bee very ready & glad of all opportunitys to testify how much I am