And herewith, commending ourselves, most respectfully, to your High Mightinesses' good graces, we shall continually pray Almighty God, High and Mighty Lords, that he may bless Your High Mightinesses' wise government more and more. Your High Mightinesses' Most humble and The lO"- April, 1632 ; Moat faithful servants, Stylo novo. In London. (Signed) Alb. Joachimi. Received 1 May, 163JJ. Govert Brasser.

West India Company to the States General. [ From the Original in the Eoyal ArchiTes at the Hague ; f'ile, TI*«rt Indie. \

To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands.

High and Mighty Lords. We have heretofore complained to your High Mightinesses that our ship the Eendracht, coming from New Netherland, laden with peltries, &c., was detained at Plymouth by his Majesty's command, under pretence that our people had traded in countries claimed to belong to his aforesaid Majesty.

' Boswell. -- Ed.

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Whereupon your High Mightinesses were pleased to instruct your Ambassador and Commissioner to prosecute, vigorously, the discharge of the said ship and goods. Now, we have received a letter signed by Your High Mightinesses' Ambassador and Commissioner, dated London the 10"' April, stil nov:, by which we are advised as follows : :

On the third instant, Pieter Minuit of Wesel, Director on behalf of your Company in New Netherland and Jan Lampo of Cantelbergh, Sheriff on the Island Manhattes, came to us here and informed us that, on arriving with your siiip, named the Eendrack, in the port of Plymouth, were there arrested for having traded in countries under the King of Great Britain's jurisdiction. We thereupon complained to his Majesty; related the circumstances of the case, and requested that the aforesaid ship maybe provisionally released. His Majesty said, that he had been advised thereof by his governor of Plymouth, and had been informed that, on a former complaint, by his father, to their High Mightinesses, of their inhabitants having traded to those Countries, their High Mightiness had forbidden them so to do but he did not know ;