The Directors of the West India Company have cognizance of the aforesaid complaints. On the xxiii. instant, I communicated to my Lord Seie above mentioned, information relative to the aforesaid memorial, copy whereof goes herewith. He requested that letters be written to the Dutch who are in New Netherland, to the end that our people, who have been complained of, may comport themselves in a peaceable and friendly manner with the English. I doubt if he hath correctly seized the meaning of the English. The Mayor of London is still in the Tower. He cannot be prevailed on to name a Deputy to fill his place in the City. It is said there is no precedent for the appointment of a Deputy to a Mayor, except he be sick, or not in his proper mind. Herewith commending myself humbly to your High Mightinesses, I pray God, High and Mighty Lords, that He may bless your High Mightinesses' government more and more. Your High Mightinesses' most humble servant, At London, the last of July, 1642. (Signed), Alb. Joachimi. Received, 9"" August, 1642.

Appendix received from Mij Lord Saye. Read 9th August, 1642.

[ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at llie Hague ; File, West Indie.]

Many of the English (his Majesty's Subjects) having been incorporated by his Majesty's letters patent and having, in order to obviate all difficulties, purchased the land from the

natives, the acknowledged and right owners thereof, established divers factories on the river Coiicclecot, in New England, where they have experienced manifold molestations and insolences