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. ;

This We have right willingly undertaken for so good an object, and doubt not but you will consent with like promptness, not only in this case, but in all that depends on you for the advancement of so laudable an undertaking; the success of which, as in all probability it will be productive of advantage to our Realms, will, in like manner, not fail to communicate the like to your Provinces. Therefore We remain Your very affectionate Friend From Our Court at (signed) James R. Leicester, the 19"" of Aug" 1614

(The Address.) To the High and Mighty Lords, The States General of the United Netherland Provinces.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter. [ From the Eeginter of the Resolutions of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]