But should your High Mightiness entertain no such regard, he, the Resident nevertheless requests, that those two persons may be again removed from the vessel, so that no further inconvenience or mischief may accrue to her Majesty's dignity from such prejudicial acts and hostilities of which, by this remonstrance, he, the Resident, will then be blameless; and as a further security that no fraud shall be committed on the cargo, he, the Resident, as her Majesty's Minuter, assures your High Mightinesses that a list thereof shall be delivered in, if your High Mightinesses require it. Provided, nevertheless, in all things that he the Resident, be not understood as paying any, even the smallest duty from this her Royal Majesty's ship, as well for reasons above recited, as because it is prejudicial to her Majesty's dignity contrary to the alliance and opposed to the intimacy and friendship which were therein to continue between her Royal Majesty and your High Mightinesses ; and therefore expects from

148 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. your High Mightinesses a resolution and good conclusion on this, his Remonstrance. Wishing you from God Almighty a long and prosperous government. (Signed) Peter Spieringh Silvercroon, Done at the Hague on the above day A°, 1644. hereditary Proprietor of North Holm. Exhibited 29 October, 1614.

Repwt of their Deputies of the States General on New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archires, at the Hague ; File, West IndUche Compagnie. ]

Extract of the Report of Henrick van der Capellen toe Ryssell, Viersen, Gerrit van Santen their High Mightinesses' late Deputies to the Assembly of the West India Company at Amsterdam, holden in October 1644. Exhibited 28"- December 1644.