The English themselves are well aware of this, but so long as they can manage it, and things get along to their liking, they will not admit the fact; for those of the Fresh river desired to enter Those of the Fresh river have offered a , 1 I I 1 mto an arrangement, and to pay a yearly acknowledgment, or to purchase the ycarij acknowiedgfee. This, indeed, is proof positive, that the right is well known to them, and they, themselves, had nothing in conscience against it, though they now from

time to time, have forged and invented many things to serve them for a screen or fence, or indeed as a pretext for delay. In like manner those of Rhode Island, when they were at variance with those The orieinai papers of the Bay, solicited leave to take shelter under the Dutch, and to be subject •" > to «">'> with the secretary or Directors them; there are proofs and documents abundance, with the Secretary or "f ">e company. in Directors of the Company, of all these things, and of what we shall relate in the following pages. In short, 'tis thus far with the English, that they are very willing to recognize the Netherlanders, and make use of them as a cloak in time of need, but again when this is past, they regard them not and make fools of them. This proceeds entirely from having neglected to people the country, or to speak plainer and more correctly, from a desire, through motives of selfishness, to scrape all the fat into one or two pots, and therefore to continue trade, and neglect population. Long Island, which is a crown of the province by reason of its great advantage Long uiand is a