West India Islands, &c., known to your High Mightinesses better than to us. " For the Company's regulations are so selfish, onerous and intolerable, yea, so devoid of good faith, that it is impossible to act with them. * For if our trade and commerce be more restricted than that of our neighbors, who are at liberty to trade with all the world that England traffics with, it will be very disadvantageous to us and the country. To exhibit your High Mightinesses' intentions towards New Netherland. *

For our neighbors frequently laugh at us. The works testify, the forts speak and express the earnest '

intentions the States bear towards this country. This greatly emboldens them and causes them to despise the country and its inhabitants. ' For the support of the outside people in addition to the garrisoning of the fortresses and as the people ;

first begin to establish colonies or plantations, these expenses might in the course of time be reimbursed out of the revenue of New Netherland, but your High Mightinesses must at first meet the outlays. For the country cannot sink in the beginning into helplessness, and New Netherland will come into condition, if some gentlemen privately, or what in our opinion would be better, if your High Mightinesses were to make some disbursements. ' Well understood, by population, good morals and prosperity.

'" The Indians are of little consequence were there one thousand or two thousand men more than there are ;

now, the natives would be obliged to forego and suppress all their arrogance and designs. " Who may come from out side, or from one side, as Pirates, Englishmen, Swedes, or such like. " With previous advice and order of your High Mightinesses, Excipiunt tamen suhitce necessarice et