Hereupon we shall expect their High Mightinesses' orders by the first

opportunity, having meanwhile prepared the inclosed Memorandum in order, at the first Conference, to expose our intention and in respect to the alternative, to forward the work

' Supra, p. 486.

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according to their High Mightinesses' good intention and subsequent resolutions. We remain, Sir, Your affectionate servants, Westminster -Jt November. (Signed) H. V. Beverningk.» Received 5 December, 1654. Wil" Nieupoort.

Appeiidix, received 5 December, 1654.

Memorandum. Cum primo itidem articulorum pacis etc. Whereas in ke manner by the first of the conventum et praecautum sit, ut firma et Articles of Peace &c. it has been agreed and invioiabilis pax, sincera intimior atque arctior provided that there should be a firm and invioafRnitas confoederatio et unio sit inter utramque lable peace, a sincere, more close and intimate rempublicam, terrasque regiones, civitatesque connection, confederation and union between sub utriusqueditione, sine distinctione locorum the two republics, and the countries, provinces positas, eorumque populum et incoias. and cities under their respective jurisdiction, together with the people and inhabitants of the same, without distinction of place. Et secundo uti utraque pars omnibus And by the second, that each party should lassionibus direptionibus, depraedationibus henceforth abstain from all injuries, plunderinjuriisque per terram mare et aquas dulces, ings, depredations and wrongs, whether by in omnibus suis Terris, regionibus, dominiis land, by sea, or by fresh waters, throughout locis et prsefecturis, quibuscunque deinceps all their respective lands, provinces, dominions,

abstineat. places and governments, whatsoever. Et non vanis rumoribus dominis ordinibus And by good authority it has become known ge[ne]ralibus innotuerit quod in continenti sep- to our States General that on the continent of tentrionalis Americre plaga, non adeo firma ami- North America a firm friendship and sincere citia sinceriorque confoederatio, inter utriusque confederation are not so observed between the reipublicffi populos ibidem commorantes obser- subjects of the two republics there resident, vetur: quin et a laesionibus injuriisque non but that they do not altogether abstain from omnino abstineatur. injuries and wrongs.