That the people of the Commonwealth of England having beene alwayes strictly forbidden Trade in all Plantations & places belonging to the people of the United Provinces that are not within the Netherlands; Wee shall acquiesce therein and shall therefore forbeare to sayle or trade with any of their plantations abroad ; and shall not interrupt or disturbe them in their saylingto them. -- And as for their tradeing to any of the English plantations it is forbidden by the late Act for Encrease of the Navigation of this Nation, from which wee thinke not fit to recede.

12. To the Twelfth wee say that the English were the First Planters of the Northerne firme land of America, and have plantations there from the Southermost part of Virginia in thirtie seven degrees of North latitude, to Newfoundland in Fiftie two degrees; and not knowing of

' These two arliclcs are translated from the Latin. -- Ed.

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HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 487 any plantation of tlie Netherlanders there, save a small number up in Hudson's River, Wee thinke it not necessary at present to settle the limits, which maybe done hereafter in convenient tyme.

These things wee have thought fit to Exhibite to yo' Excellencies, upon those things you propounded in yo' paper of Thirtie six articles. What remaynes further to be offered on our part for consuraating the treaty shall in convenient tyme be aisoe exhibited to y" Excellencies.

Signed in the name and by order of the Councell of State appointed by Authority of Parlament. (sd) P. Lisle president Whitehall. 15 March 165J.