Treaty to be concluded between the Republic of England aforesaid and this State, being again brought up in the Assembly; it is, after deliberation, resolved and concluded, hereby to draw up the aforesaid considerations in manner and form as is hereinafter inserted, word for word. Mess" the Ambassadors shall be careful, &c. Folio 60. They shall make use of all imaginable reasons and arguments to the end that the contents of the eleventh Article may be obtained. At the same time the settlement of the Boundary mentioned in the twelfth Article shall be postponed until a more favorable opportunity.

Tuesday, 14 May, 1652. Folio 68. On resuming the written considerations drawn up yesterday by their High Mightinesses on the answers returned by the Council of State in England to Mess" their Ambass-idors England. in .7 High Mightinesses' Ambassadors Extraordinary J at present r there, on the Thirty-six Articles in question which were to serve as a basis of the Treaty to be concluded i

between the Republic of England aforesaid and this State, it is resolved and concluded, that Farther Instruction, a further lustructiou sliall be sent, by Mr. Willem van Nieupoort, who is going to

England with a commission from their High Mightinesses', to the said Ambassadors Extraordinary, to aid them as to the contents of the eleventh Article of the Points delivered by their Excellencies to the government there, in order to be employed and made use of, whenever they should happen to perceive that the aforesaid eleventh Article cannot, to all appearance, be obtained, as if said instruction were inserted in the aforesaid written considerations after the abovementioned eleventh Article; whereunto their Excellencies are hereby empowered and authorized.