[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] arouse fresh endeavor, the States-General, in March, 1614, issued a decree offering to grant to any person or number of persons who should discover new lands a charter of exclusive privileges of trade therewith. Upon Block's return there was pending before the States-General an application for the coveted charter by a strong organiza-tion of merchants, which was based upon Hudson's discovery and the representation that the hopeful organization was prepared to make to the region in question the number of voyages conditionally required in the decree. On October 11, 1614, Block submitted to the States-General, at The Hague, explicit information of his discoveries, and a charter bearing that date was accordingly granted to him and a num-ber of individuals associated with him (of whom Christiansen was one), comprising a business society styled the New Netherland Com-pany. This company had for its formally defined aim the commer-cial exploitation of the possessions of Holland in the New World, to which collectively the name of New Netherland was now applied. It was in the same year and month that New England was first so called by Prince Charles of Wales ( afterward Charles I. ).