States General to the Chamber at Amsterdam. [ From the Eegister of Uitgegane Srieven of the States General, in the Eoyal Arohives at the Hague. ]

To the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company. The States, etc. Folio 11. Honorable, etc. We have resolved hereby to request and require you to prepare immediately and to transmit to us the Report or Relation respecting the expulsion of

6w?dUh""'eoidTr8 some Swedish soldiers from New Netherland, more fully mentioned in your last from New Netherjgj.^gj. g^^^ ^^ yg_ Relying whereupon, etc. Done 18 January, 1656.

[SECRET CASE.]

WEST INDIA COMPANY

EEPOET

AMSTERDAM CHAMBER OF THE WEST INDIA COMPANY,

PAPERS AND CORROBORATIVE DOCUMENTS THEREUNTO BELONGING,

RESPECTING

THE SWEDES WHO HAVE ARRIVED FROM NEW NETHERLAND.

Received the 28th January, 1C5C.

[Case L. A., Locket U., No. 9. ]

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VIIL 587

Extract from the Register of the Secret Re-solutions of the High and Highly Lords Slates General of the UniUd Netherlands.

Friday, 28 January, lG-56.

[ Omitted; being duplicate of Resolution, post, p. 609. ]

Chamber at Amsterdam to tlie States ^General.

[ From the Original In the Eoyal Archives at the Hagne ; Sicretekaa of the States General ; Division, West Indische CompagnU, No. 9.]

Secret. High and Mighty Lords. In our provisional answer of the IS"" of this current month to your High Mightinesses despatch of the 6'"' instant concerning the Swedes who have arrived from New Netherland, we offered to furnish a further Report of what occurred there, which we have since had prepared with the proper verifications; and have resolved to transmit herewith to your High Mightinesses with an humble request, that on considering them, the circumstances of the case and the reasons thereunto appertaining, you will please not to take it ill of the Company, that it had so far regarded the honor of this Slate as to evince at last some resentment at the several