[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] present; but the Director and Council are instructed to take care that the English do not encroach further on the Company's lands; in the meantime they are to try if a boundary can be determined on yonder, with the aforesaid English, and the inclination thereunto appearing, they are instructed to send forthwith advice thereof hither, with pertinent information after due inquiry, how much of the Company's lands the English possess; all with the understanding, nevertheless, that the aforesaid English who are at present in the Company's district and have settled there, or shall come and settle therein, shall be subject to the Company's government there, and to that end shall take the oath of fidelity to their High Mightinesses the Lords States General and the West India Company, after which they shall not be regarded otherwise than as original subjects. In respect to the division of boundaries between the people of New Netherland and the English, the Director hath, without any advice and joint resolution, not only repaired to New England, in September, 1650, but hath there, also, on his own authority, so far proceeded in the matter of the boundary, that he and ihe English mutually referred" the differences thereon to four arbitrators, two of whom were chosen on each side. The Director named on his side, instead of Dutchmen, one M"^ Thomas Willet,^ a merchant residing at Plymouth, in New ' Rev.