standing King James, of most glorious memory, chartered the
Virginia Companies upon condition that they should remain an hundred
miles from each other, according to our reckoning.(1) They are willing
to avail themselves of this grant, but by no means to comply with the
terms stipulated in it.

(1) The hundred miles of the Virginia patent of 1606 were
English miles.

All the islands, bays, havens, rivers, kills and places, even to a great
distance on the other side of New Holland or Cape Cod, have Dutch names,
which our Dutch ship-masters and traders gave to them.(1) These were the
first to discover and to trade to them, even before they had names, as
the English themselves well know; but as long as they can manage it and
matters go as they please, they are willing not to know it. And those of
them who are at the Fresh River have desired to enter into an agreement
and to make a yearly acknowledgement or an absolute purchase, which
indeed is proof positive that our right was well known to them, and that
they themselves had nothing against it in conscience, although they now,
from time to time, have invented and pretended many things in order to
screen themselves, or thereby to cause at least delay.

(1) An exaggeration, yet the number of such names is
considerable, as may be seen by consulting the appendix to
Asher's _Bibliography of New Netherland_.

Moreover the people of Rhode Island, when they were at variance with
those of the Bay,(1) sought refuge among the Dutch, and sojourn among
them. For all these things, and What we shall relate in the following
pages, there are Proofs and documents enough, either with the secretary
of the Company or with the directors.

(1) Massachusetts Bay. The most conspicuous instance is
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson.

In short, is it just this with the English, they are willing to know the
Netherlanders, and to use them as a protection in time of need, but when
that is past, they no longer regard them, but play the fool with them.
This happens so only because we have neglected to populate the land; or,
to speak more plainly and truly, because we have, our of regard for our
own profit, wished to scrape all the fat into one or more pots, and thus
secure the trade and neglect population.

Long Island, which, on account of its convenient bays and havens, and
its good well situated lands, is a crown of the province, they have also
seized at once, except on th