376 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1657-1660.

Liber H. H.

Delaware Bay to vs entrusted and by yow (as it seemes in-
iuriously seated in preiudice to his said Lops iust right and
Tytle.
ffor answere therefore vnto your Demands by your said
Agents made. Wee Say that Collonell Nathaniell Vtie was by
Vs in pursuance of a Comand from the Right Honno^ble the
Lord Proprietary ordered to make his repaire to a Certaine
People seated vpon Delaware Bay within the 40^th Degree of
Northerly latitude from the Equinoctiall Lyne to lett them
knowe that they were resideing within our Jurisdiction without
our knowledge much more without our License with out
Grant of Land from or Oath of ffidellity to his Lordship taken
Both which are expressly by his Conditions of plantation, and
lawes to all Comers here to inhabit! conditioned and enioyned,
And further to offer vnto them such Conditions in Case they
intended there to stay, as Wee our selues enioy. But in Case
of refusall and abode there made, to lett them knowe wee
should vse all Lawfull meanes to reduce them to that Obedi-
ence which all People within the Degree aforesaid are bound
to yeild vnto vs as intrusted with this Province by the Right
hoble the Lord Baltemore Sole and absolute Lord and Pro-
prietary of the same by Pattent vnder the Great Seale of Eng-
land bearing Date 20^th of Iune in the yeare of our Lord God
1632 And since by Act of Parliament confirmed (a Copy
whereof wee haue shewed to your said Embassadors). And
since yow by your writteing as well as by your Embassadors
seeme to insinuate that the said Colony in Delaware Bay is
Seated thereby and vnder your Comannd Wee doe protest as
well against them and yow, as against all other persons
either Principalls or Abetters in the said Intrusion vpon our
Bounds and Confines. Our Damages and Costs in Due tyme,
and by all lawfull meanes to recover which wee either haue or
shall at any tyme hereafter Chance to Sustaine by the Recov-
ery of that place soe seated within our bounds and limitts, and
injuriously by yow deteyned
The Originall Right of the kings of England to these Coun-
treys and Territoryes must be our Endevours to maintaine, not
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yeild vp, as being that which wee can neither accept from any
other power, nor yeild vp to any other authority without the
Consent of our Supreame Magistracy their Successors in the
Dominion of England. Though Wee cannott but minde yow
that it is noe Difficult matter to shewe that your pretended
Tytle to that parte of this Province where those people (now if
at all the first tyme owned by the High and Mighty States to
be in Delaware Bay seated by their Order and authority) doe
Hue is vtterly none, and your Pattent (if you haue any) from