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. Cum tamen Hartfordiensi conventu anno And whereas in a convention at Hartford in 1650 inter utriusque nationis directores et the year 1650 between the Directors and assessores, provisionali decreto in banc regulam Councillors of each nation, it was, by a proconventum esset: uti possidetis ita possideatis visional decision, agreed to follow this rule:

Jerome van Beverninok was born at Tergou, in Holland, on the 25th of April, 1614, whence he was sent in 1646, as a '

Deputy to the Provincial Legislature. The States of Holland eeut him in 1650, to invite those of Utrecht to the extraordinary Session of the States General in 1651. He represented his native town in the States General, in 1653, in which year he was sent Ambassador to England, and concluded a treaty of peace with that country in April, 16.54. Whilst Ambassador, he was appointed Treasurer General of the Uaited Provinces; he resigned that office in 1655. Exclusive of the negotiations with England, he was also one of the Plenipotentiaries in the peace concluded by the Dutch with the Bishop of Munster, with the French and Spaniards, and finally with the Elector of Cologne after having filled with honor many difiioult commissions, ;