proviso, wh they neither haue, nor ever will perform; The shortest way to reduce them to obedience, is to take the forfeiture of their charter; and then his Majesty may extend what grace & favour he pleaseth, to them afterwards. And also provide for his loyall subjects there, who otherwise (it wilbe feared) shall never haue baptisme administred to their children, nor the Eucharist to them selues; And also prevent all disputes with the Massachusetts for the future, by giving them such a charter as they cannot misconstrue. For the misconstruing of their charter makes them misreport what the Commissioners haue donne, & misenterpret all the king's letters, nether beleeving what he sayes, nor doing what he desires. That, & a little propensity in some of them to a temporall independency, as well as a spirituall, are the onely grounds of denying his Majesty that, wh all his other colonies most readily yeilded him.

I humbly begge your Honors pardon for having set down myn' own opinion, when the other 3 commissioners, having declared what was donne, humbly referred to your Lordships great wisdome what was to be donne : and for not giving your Lordship more measure in, when I could not adde more weight to, the answear of this false, impertinent & very tedious improvement. Beseeching your Lordship to take notice of that relation whch I presented to your Lordship of the Massachusets, before I saw their narratiue I humbly subscribe my selfe

Your Honors most humble servant

Jan. 5. 1665.

GEORGE CARTWRIGHT.

Endorsed" Jan: 5th 1665-6 Geo: Cartwright one of y' kings Commissioners to N England A. No (46)."

XXXV.

MEMORANDA BY COLONEL CARTWRIGHT.

A MEMORIALL CONCERNING THE MASSACHUSET'S.

1. That Mr Richard Bellingham the governor of the corporation of the Massachusets, and Major Hawthorn, & 2 others be sent with the return of these ships hither to answear such things as are layd to their charge, by his Maj. commissioners.

2. That the sayd colony of the Massachusets meddle not with the government of the province of Mayn, but let it continue, as the Commissioners haue left it, untill his Majesty shall otherwise determine.

3. That Mr Corbet of Portsmouth in Newhampshire, and all others imprisoned for petitioning the Commissioners be set at libertie, & their bayles discharged forthwith, without paying fees. And that none hereafter be anywayes molested for making applycation, or showing respect to the Commissioners.

CONCERNING RODE-ISLAND, &c.

4. His Maj: commanded the Commissioners, y', if y found, his Maj. had a just right to the Nanhyganset country, they should enter on it in his Majesties name, & call it the Kings province, & promise those princes his Royall protection; All wh the commissioners did doe. For some of those Indian princes were aliue, & did own their former deeds, & did actually surrender themselues & ther country into his Majesties protection & ernestly desired so to continue. But this Nanhyganset country being almost all the land wh is granted to the colony of Rode-island &c. if it be continued severall will make that patent of little, or no valew; it is humbly desired that his Majesty would ether appoint a governor over that province, wh was, by his Royall command, calld the King's province; or giue it again to the Colony of Rode-island & providence plantations.

5. That Doctor Alcock an honest & ingenious physitian, who first planted Block-island, may not be dispossest of his purchase of it; though he bought it of the Massachusets, who had no right to sell it.

6. That the temporary bounds set by the Commissioners betwixt the colonyes of New-Plymouth & Rode island may still continue to be the bounds betwixt those 2 colonies untill his Majesty shall see just reason to alter them. And that Mr Brenton continue his purchase from Sachim Phillip within those controverted bounds, untill he hath the wholle price thereof repayd unto him. And yt this 6t memoriall be also made known to the Governor of New plymouth.

7. That all the English colonies, by their deputies meet, & agree together, assoon as is possible, to assist each other, against the Dutch, or any other of his Majesties enemies, who shall attempt any of his Majesties terratories in those parts.

8. That there might be a supply sent to the Commissioners for the discharging of their quarters, & bringing them back to England. But if any of the commissioners think it more convenient for them to stay in those parts, that they may haue leaue to doe so. For Mr Maverick hath his mother, wife, children, & brothers living there, and nether estate, nor employment here.

Endorsed" Coll. Carterett concerninge New Englande. After the Restora

tion."

XXXVI.

FRANCIS MORYSON TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON.

To the Right Honble Edward Earle of Clarenden Lord high Chanceller of England.

An Humble Addresse in the behalfe of Virginia. MAY IT PLEASE YOR LORP

The only Shipp that is likely to goe this yeare being

wth in few days ready to Sayle occasions this Speedy and most humble Addresse to yo' Lo

The narrative delivered to yo' LOPP att Salisbury sett forth the Two maine parts of my instruccōns from Virginia To represent Marylands dissent from them in the Stint for planting, To gett Bristoll Patent for Rapahanock revoakd, I shall not trouble yo' LOPP wth perticulars in either.

ffor the first, The comon calamitie hath a little raysed the price of our comoditie weh perhapps will supply his Lo wth better Arguments then formerly to oppose vs, Soe that I shall lett that rest as it doth, wholy to decline it, I dare not vntill further Order from the Countrie.

ffor the Bristoll Patent Since I vnderstood that it was yo Lopp oppinion, That it would appeare hard to oppose a new Graunt to those honoble Persons concernd in the Old, therefore I shall only p'sent the same necessary restrictions of my former Narrative, and most humbly leave it to yo' Lopp determination.

ffirst That there might bee noe alteration in point of Governm, altogether inconsistant with the peace of the rest of the Countrie. Secondly. That the Rights of the p'sent Possessors may bee p'served, Their Rents not raysed nor new ffines imposed or their Tenures altered. Thirdly That there may bee time perfixed for peopling of the Places soe granted or in case of ffaylure, Liberty to others to take vpp the Lands. My Lord this is a Law as old as the first planting the Countrie, and a most wholsome one, for otherwise perticuler men would keepe great Tracts of Land in their hands, in hope of getting a great Rate for it, and neither people the Places themselves nor lett others that would doe it, If the time seemes to short that the Law injoynes, I shall most humbly leave it to yo' LoPP to inlarge it. only desiring y' his M treasure may be consulted wth before the grant passes.

But my Lord the maine busienes of this Paper is to p'sent some generall Propositions to make the neigh

bourhood of Maryland lesse p'judiciall to vs. If they shall appeare (vpon yo' Lop view) Reasonable, Then most humbly to desire y' LoP to Signifie soe much by yo' Letter to the Countrie wch will both infinitely satisfie them, and cleere yo' Represento" from neglect in their Service.

ffirst I most humbly Propose That his Lops Countrie may bee concluded in all orders wth Ours from King and Councell, where either Trade is concern'd, the Comoditie the Same, and Inannaged wthout any inconsiderable inequallitie, or of State; Civill or Ecclesiasticall, especially where there is any necessitie of laying a Tax vpon the People for the executing of those Comands.

My Lord this will appeare att first Sight a Proposition rather of envy agt Maryland then of Advantage to Virginia, But if yo' LoPP pleases to looké into the Reasons you will finde yo' Represento' in this, Labours to p'serve, from a necessary Ruine the Poore Countrie that hath intrusted him.

All taxes (my Lord) wth vs are by Pole not Acre, the losse of the poorest man as great to Virginia as the richest, all paying equall, Soe that if any comand comes from hence, that requires men or money to effect it, his Lopps Countrie lyes ready att the Doore, to invite them wth as good Land as they leave and free of all Incombrances. By this meanes wee yearely Loose considerable numbers of People, and by it have fewer hands to Act any thing for our Advantage, or for the Advance of his Maties Service and fewer Purses to pay for it.

My Lord this is no Ayrie notion of mine, wch I should not have p'sumed to offer to soe great a Minister of State as yo LoPP Vnlesse I could demonstrate the truth, by the Sadd effects of it.

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His Maties instructions by S William Berkley, though they did not positively enjoyne the building of a Towne, yet they soe recommended it to vs, that wee must have Showne a supine negligence if wee had not att least indeavord it, Our poore Assay of building ffower or ffive houses lost vs hundreds of people wch I hope will wipe