Eesnmpiion of the '^^^ resumption of the enacted Charter is further proceeded with, and some enacted Charter. difficulties are removed in the distribution of the Directors and Equipment among the Provinces, Quarters and Cities ; in the order of the Salt-traders ; the Limits on this side and through the Strait of Magellan, and the difficulties started thereupon by the East India Company, with whose Deputies communication has been had by Deputies on the part of the Lords States General ; and it is agreed in full Meeting, that this Matter should be examined at the first Meeting of the Seventeen Deputies, and for that and other considerations, the aforesaid business is holden for further deliberation and postponed.

King James I. to the States General. [ From the Original in Royal ArchiTes at the Hague ; File entitled EnQdand. ] Date 19 August \ ^^^*" Rec" 30 Septemb' )

High and Mighty Lords, Our good friends and allies We cannot but acknowledge the favor, which through regard for Us, you have done to Sir Thomas Dale, Marshal of Virginia, by permitting him to absent himself for some time from your Service, to which he should have already returned, had not all of that Colony, where he has right worthily comported himself, perceiving the necessity of his remaining among them, to settle and give stability to that enterprize, supplicated Us to interpose again with you, and to request you to permit his absence for two or three years more, in order that he may complete the work, so well begun which, by his recal, cannot but run great risk of miscarriage. ;