And in justification of the trading of said Company to the aforesaid New Netherland, the said Directors have communicated to us the annexed Deduction, to which we have appended copy of a certain Charter, granted by us on the 14"" Octob. 1614, to some private inhabitants of this country, to resort to New Netherland.By all these we intend, that the right of the aforesaid Company to trade to New Netherland must be maintained. You will add thereunto such reasons and motives as you shall judge pertinent, according to circumstances.

Done the S"- May, 1632.

Messrs. JoacMmi and Brasser to the States General.

[ From the Original, in the Royal Archives at the Hague ; File, Engdand. ]

High and Mighty Lords.

In our despatch of the 27"' April, My Lords, we gave your High Mightinesses communication of our transactions with his Majesty's Commissioners. Since then, we endeavored by all possible diligence, to obtain a written answer to our last proposal communicated to his Majesty, containing, in brief, the substance of both the preceding. Thereupon, the marked* writing annexed was brought to our house yesterday, by Mr. Secretary Kooke; notwithstanding we, a little while previously, had sent for it. The reasons for his handing it himself to us, were, we think, two. First, to understand, on this occasion, from us, what secret negotiations were going on with France; for he began his conversation with an expostulation, saying that we had, in appearance, fully communicated to his Majesty the subject of the embassy to France, but that we had carefully withheld the most essential point thereof from his Majesty; that all the world was aware, that greater matters had been treated of than had been communicated to his Majesty; that in the time of Queen Elizabeth, we would have been more careful, &c.