This his Majesty has waited for a long time with great patience, and should a denial or a delay of this be persisted in, not only will the King and people, but the whole world, complain of such misdeeds, and demand redress at their hands. In the fourth and last place, they demand the release of a vessel seized at Plymouth, returning from a certain plantation usurped by tiiem in the north parts of Virginia, whicii they say was acquired from the natives of the country. But, first, it is denied that the Indians were those countries, so as to be able to dispose of them either by sale or possessores bona: Jidei of

donation, their residences being unsettled and uncertain, and only being in common ; and in the second place, it cannot be proved, de facto, that all the Natives of said country had contracted with them at the said pretended sale. And as to what they say in addition, that the said Natives have their residences around them, the truth is, that the English encompass them on the one side and on the other, as they well experienced heretofore when they attempted to maintain their right against them. But, moreover, the right his Majesty's subjects have in that country, is justified by first discovery, occupation and the possession which they have taken thereof, and by the concessions and letters patentsthey have had from our Sovereigns, who were, for the above reasons, the true and legitimate proprietors thereof in those parts, where their Lordships, the States, had not of themselves and did not assume, such pretension, and had not granted any patent thereof to their subjects, to give them any power or title thereunto. Which turned out to be the case year 1621, when the late King of happy memory, on the complaint and (severifia), in the remonstrance of the Earl of Arundel Sirs Fer.