such report as will prevent any expression of displeasure against me. The death of Everardus Welius, our Minister, who piously rested in the Lord on the 9th instant, has caused deep sorrow here and especially among the virtuous, who now are almost disconsolate.

Also, Cornelis Harpersen de Jager was likewise buried here at the Manhattans on the 20th instant, so that almost all the people are dead, run away, or banished, and very little hope is remaining, and there is every appearance of that little being less.

Herewith ending, I pray God, the Lord, for your Honors, that He may be pleased your Honors, collectively, in health to spare unto salvation. Amen.

XV., 88.

Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam.

[From the Resolutien van de Vroedschappen, C., 50, in the Stad Huys, Amsterdam. ]

25th August, 1660.

Holland Documents, A Memorial is presented to the Burgomasters from the Directors of the city's New Netherland Colonie in New Netherland for assistance to its Colonie and an advance of Colonie; furnishing 8,000 gl. 8,000 gl., which, being considered, it is resolved and concluded to place the aforesaid Memorial, and the papers appertaining thereunto, in the hands of the gentlemen who, by resolution of the 8th of November last, are commissioned for the affairs of said Colonie, to examine said Memorial and to report their opinion and advice.

Controversy between Lord Baltimore and the Dutch, respecting the Delaware River.

[ From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; Loketkas of the States-General; Rubrick, West Indische Compagnie, No. 48. ]

Extract from the Minutes taken by the Deputies of the General Incorporated
West India Company representing the Assembly of the XIX., at Amsterdam.

On the notification of the presiding Chamber of Amsterdam, dated 29th July last, appeared the members of the Chambers of Zealand, Maaze and North Quarter (Groningen alone

being absent), and, accordingly having made a commencement of the business, read the commission of the Chamber of Amsterdam to Mess" Eduard Man, Abraham Wilmerdonx and Hans Bontemantel, old Schepen and Councillor of that city, dated the 9th August, Ao 1660. One of the chief partners, etc.

The following notice and other papers handed to the Chamber aforesaid, by Notary Crosse, on the 20th instant, in the name of Captain James Neale, Attorney of Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, being produced and read to the meeting by the Deputies of the presiding Chamber of Amsterdam, it is, after previous question, resolved and concluded that the aforesaid Notary Crosse and Captain James Neale shall be summoned to the meeting to-morrow morning, and that then a fitting answer shall be given to their unfounded

PROTEST.

Be it known to all and every, by this public instrument of Notice and Protest, that on the three-and-twentieth day of the month of August, New Style, in the year of our Lord God 1660, I, Johannes Crosse, by the Court of Holland admitted a sworn and public Notary, residing at Amsterdam, have, at the request of Captain Neale, presented myself to the Assembly of the Honble West India Company, within this city of Amsterdam aforesaid, with

Captain James Neale, Agent of the Right Honble Lord Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, owner and proprietor of that entire tract of land or territory named the Province of Maryland, in America, extending, according to the limits described in his Lordship's patent, to him granted by his Majesty, Charles the First, of most blessed memory, King of Great Britain, on the 20th day of the month of July, in the 8th year of his said Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord 1632, correct copy whereof [is annexed], together with an order or commission granted to him, Captain Neale, by his aforesaid Principal, the Honble Baron of Baltimore, dated at London on the 20th of April last, authorizing and empowering the said Captain Neale to ask you, the Honble West India Company, if you acknowledge the cultivation of the Colonie called New Amstel, lying in de la Waer bay, in Maryland aforesaid, and in case Yes, then to demand your submission and obedience of said place and Colonie to his aforesaid Lordship, as proprietor of said country, wherein the aforementioned Colonie of New Amstel is situated and planted (both which instruments are by me, the above named Notary, translated into the Nether Dutch language); also, a Notice and Protest demanding submission as aforesaid;

All which have been by me, the Notary aforenamed, delivered to the Honble Eduard Man, one of the Directors of your Company, for the behoof of the said Company, on the 7th day of the month of June last, in virtue of a second order or commission from his Lordship, the Baron of Baltimore aforesaid, dated at London, the 24th July last past, copy whereof, together with a copy of a letter from his present Royal Majesty, Charles the second, King of Great Britain, to the Governor and Council of the Virginias, notifying the confirmation of his said Lordship's patent, acknowledging his Lordship to be the right owner of the said Province of Maryland, under his Majesty, dated at Withall, the third day of the month of July last, both by me, the above mentioned Notary, translated into the Nether Dutch tongue, which are at present by me delivered to you, the Directors aforesaid. I now again, and for the second time, ask you, the Directors of the West India Company aforesaid, if you acknowledge the cultivation and possession of that district of country called New Amstel, lying in the de la Waer bay, on the south side of said bay, within the limits or jurisdiction of his said Lordship's patent of Maryland. And if yea, he, Captain Neale, aforementioned, doth, in the name and on the behalf of his said Lordship, the Baron of Baltimore, owner and proprietor of the said Province of Maryland,

demand of you, the said Company, surrender of the said plantation of New Amstel to him, the said Lord; and in case of refusal or neglect of submission, doth declare, in the name and on the behalf of his Principal, by me, the Notary aforesaid (with due reverence and respect to you, individually and as a Company), that he protests, as I do hereby protest, against you, the said West India Company, for and because of your unlawful and illegal cultivation, detention and possession of said plantation of New Amstel, and for all costs, charges, losses and interests already, by your illegal cultivation, possession and non-submission thereof, had, done and suffered, and still to have, to do and suffer, with express declaration that his said Principal shall and will, by all possible, lawful and proper means, seek to reduce the said Colonie to and under his Lordship's obedience, at such time and place, where and whenever he shall find fitting. Nevertheless, to the end that the whole world may see and acknowledge that his said Principal acts in no other wise than is right, and as his just and legal right demands, he; Captain Neale, doth now again and for the last time, offer and tender, in the name of his Principal, to you, the Directors of the said West India Company, that his Lordship is willing and ready to treat with you or any agent of yours, and to decide and conclude the said matter in love and friendship, on honorable and just terms, subject to your abiding there, and hereupon he, Captain Neale, demands your positive and prompt answer.

CHARLES R.

Charles II. to the Governor of Virginia.

Trusty and well beloved. We greet you well. Whereas, it appears to us by divers depositions, that one Josias Fendall, late Governor under Lord Baltimore, of our Province of Maryland, hath raised a faction in said Province against the right and jurisdiction of said Lord Baltimore;

Therefore, we, on the humble prayer and petition of the said Lord Baltimore, to the end that we him in his just rights, would protect and defend, do charge and command you and every one of you to be aiding and assisting unto his officers in the establishment of his jurisdiction there, as the same existed last January, according to his patent or charter of the said Province, to him granted by the King, our father, of blessed memory, whereby you will be doing us a special service.

Given in our court at Whitehall, on the third day of the month of July, in the twelfth year of our reign.

Lower stood what follows:

To our Governor and Council of the Virginias, and to all ship Captains and Skippers trading to Maryland, and to all Magistrates and officers and others our subjects in those quarters or countries.

Beneath stood:

Agrees with the original.

(Signed),

EDW: NICHOLAS.1

1

'Sir EDWARD NICHOLAS, Knight, after passing through Oxford and the Middle Temple, lived about a year in France; he afterwards became Secretary to Lord Edward Zouche, warden of the Cinque ports, and, next to George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, Lord Zouche's successor, and so, in a short time, Secretary of the Admiralty. After the murder of the Duke, in 1628, Mr. Nicholas continued in the same place whilst the office was in commission, and next was one of the Clerks of the

Captain Neale.

Lord Baltimore to Captain Neale.

Whereas I have written to you formerly at Amsterdam to inquire of the West India Company whether they acknowledged or claimed the cultivation and possession of that district of country lying in the Bay de la Ware, on the south side of said bay, within the limits of my patent or grant of Maryland, and in case they acknowledged the cultivation of said district, then and in such case, to demand their submission of the said plantation to me; and in case of refusal on their part, to protest, in my name, against them, because they unjustly or illegally possess or remain in occupation of the same.

In like manner I again do authorize and request you once more to address yourself to the said Company, or to such others as you may understand to be the possessor of the same, or whomsoever hath authorized said possession, taking with you. a Notary Public, and in case of their refusal to submit to my jurisdiction, against them again to protest, and also such to communicate to my Lieutenant in Maryland for the time being, and to any other person by me authorized to the said service, in order to employ or make use of all possible and proper means to reduce those people, who are settled on my land, under the obedience of my government of Maryland.

And to effect the same, this shall be your power and authority; and in case they will submit let me know it, to the end that I may send over a commission, to grant or accord conditions to them, to allow them to abide under my government according to my aforesaid patent or grant, dated in London on the four-and-twentieth day of the month of July, A° 1660.

Beneath was:

Addressed:

Your very dear friend.

(Signed),

BALTIMORE.

To Captain James Neale, this deliver: and sealed with his Lordship's seal at arms impressed on black wax.

PRESENT

Wednesday, 1st September, 1660.
Messrs Eduard Man, Chairman,

Hans Bontemantel,

Coenraet Burgh,

Jacobus Reynst,

Willem van der Heyde,

Nicolaes Ten Hove,

Claes Pietersen Boschieter,

Amsterdam.

Zealand.
Maase.
North Quarter.

Pursuant to yesterday's resolution, appeared at the meeting, Captain James Neale, Attorney of Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, accompanied by Joannes Crosse, Notary here; to

Council; in 1641 he succeeded Sir Francis Windebanke as Secretary of State, and in 1648 withdrew to France on the death of his Royal master. In 1650 he removed to Holland, where he continued to reside until 1655, when he joined Charles II., who gave him the Royal Signet. On the restoration, he was reappointed Secretary of State, and held that post until October, 1662, when he was succeeded by Sir Henry Bennett. He was a very honest and industrious man, versed in business, and was, in truth, throughout his whole life, a person of great reputation and of singular integrity. Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, 8vo,, III., 1821; Beatson's Political Index. —、 ED.

whom was given the following answer to his presented Notice and Protest respecting the claim to the Colonie of New Amstel situated in New Netherland; whereof said Captain, requesting copy, the same is graciously granted:

The present Deputies to the Assembly of the XIX., of the General Incorporated West India Company in the United Netherlands, having seen and heard, with great surprise, the demand which you, Captain James Neale, make for the behoof and by authority (as you state) of Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, whereby you require that the Directors of the aforesaid Company shall command some of their settlers on the South river of New Netherland, and particularly the Colonists of the city of Amsterdam, to pay submission and homage to the above mentioned Lord or his Attorney, by virtue of a certain grant made to his Lordship by Charles I., of immortal memory, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc., offering, to that end, to agree on certain conditions, with the aforesaid Company, protesting, in case of refusal, against all costs, losses and damages done and suffered, to do and to suffer, &c., requesting, thereunto, a prompt answer;

Have, agreeably to said request, after mature deliberation, resolved to give you, the Protestor, for answer, that they have, with good right for a long series of years, the aforesaid demanded place possessed and still occupy under the government of the High and Mighty Lords StatesGeneral of the United Netherlands, without the said Baron of Baltimore, or any one else, having put forth the least claim thereto, and that they, accordingly, do intend the same to hold, their settlers in their good right to maintain and to defend against whomsoever it may be.

Which we hope the said Baron will take into consideration; but, if contrary to our expectation, his Lordship shall, to the end aforesaid, resort to any acts of violence, in order to disturb said Company in their just possession, they, the notified Deputies find themselves necessitated to tell you that the aforesaid Directors, their Principals, will, under the protection. of their High Mightinesses, make use of such means as God and nature have provided them with. Finding themselves fortified with much greater reason than you, the Protestor, have to protest not only against all costs, losses and damages on that account done and suffered, or to be done and suffered, but also against the innocent Christian blood which shall in consequence be shed among co-religionists and allied friends and neighbors.