[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And although we, in no wise, doubt your hearty zeal and duty, yet are we unwilling to stand idle; you are therefore again admonished to exert and exercise all possible means for the release of the aforesaid ship, and that the merchant-men of the West India Company may in future be saved from such like annoyances. And in justification of the trading of said Company to the aforesaid New Netherland, the said Directors have communicated to us the annexed Deduction, to which we have appended copy of a certain Charter, granted by us on the 14"" Octob. 1614, to some private inhabitants of this country, to resort to New Netherland. By all these we intend, that the right of the aforesaid Company to trade to New Netherland must be maintained. You will add thereunto such reasons and motives as you shall judge pertinent, according to circumstances. Done the S"-May, 1632. Messrs. JoacMmi and Brasser to the States General. [ From the Original, in the Royal Archives at the Hague; File, Engdand. ] High and Mighty Lords. In our despatch of the 27"' April, My Lords, we gave your High Mightinesses communication