Tho the ffirst interrye : bee sayeth, that the shippe the William of London ( whereof William Trevore was master) was victualled and sett forth by master Cloberye, master Morehead and master Delabarr, of London merchants, and they laded diverse goods abord her for a voyage, to be made by her to Hutsons river in America, betweene Virginia and New England, within the dominions of the King of England, to trucke awaye such goodes, as shee carryed with the natives of those places for beaver skinnes, furrs and other commodities. The premisses he knoweth to be true, beinge one of the companye of the said shippe, the said voyage. To the second he sayeth, that the said shippe the William, arrived into Hutsons river, righte againste the Dutch forte there, about the latter end of Aprill or begininge of May last past (: to his nowe beste remembrance:) and after her arrivall there, the Dutch inhabitinge in the said

commannded all her companye (: except one boye:) to leave the said shippe, and to come fforte,

on shoare att the said fforte. And whilest they were there, there were three peeces of ordnance shott off from the forte, for the Prince of Orange and his Colours were spred abrod upon the Castle. And the Governor of that fforte toulde the factor and the rest of the companye of the said shippe, that they should not trade there. But the said merchants factor, named Jacob Jacobson Elkins, tould the Governor of the said fforte, that that land was the King of Englands lande, and they (: meaning the companye of the said shippe) were subiects, and therefore would trade there. And after they had stayed three dayes by the said fforte by the commannde of the Governor, they weighed their anchors and wente further into the said river, to trade and trucke awaye the godes abord the said shippe.