That in the year 1633, William Clobery, David Morehead and John de la Barre cohiplained, that they were injured by some Dutchmen resident in New Netherland, who had obstructed them in their trade in those parts, as they represented. The aforesaid persons have demeaned themselves to this time very discreetly, and would not have voluntarily brought their complaints into court. In the following year, 1634, I wrote, and sent the depositions on this subject, to your High Mightinesses, as your High Mightinesses will please to observe by the copy of my letter accompanying this. For a good while I have not heard of this matter, and thought that it was abandoned or had died. On the xiii"" instant, two of the aforesaid persons came to me, and inquired what had they to expect in their case. From their language, I could infer that they had spoken with some Lords of Council. More than one suit will arise out of this, if the matter be not arranged.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IL 109 The Irish Officer, whose house has been hired by Captain Jan Reierssen, has not come near me any more, since I wrote to your High Mightinesses. If he be in Holland and receive no satisfaction there, it will be very requisite to send over well verified excuses, or he will be able to obtain letters of reprisal with very little trouble. In my last of the xii instant, I wrote that a certain Judge had distinctly advised that, under present circumstances, the ship money may not be levied off the inhabitants of England, without consent of Parliament. It is since rumored, that a Divine, who hath a good prebend and visits the house of one of the aristocracy, had intruded into a chamber at Westminster where the Judges sat; among the rest Into his whose advice is mentioned above.