348 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85.

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

at any time) this Government may be qualified to retalliate, or
in any measure to accommodate yours with the like neighbourly
& christian-like aid and assistance, you will most certainly find
a faire and just correspondency by and with the approbation &
ready concurrence of—Sir,
Your humble servants
C. Baltemore
Philip Calvert
William Calvert
Vincent Lowe
Thomas Taillor
W^m Digges.

For the hon^ble Cap^t Anthony Brockholls or any other
Comander in Chiefe for the time being at New York.

(Endorsed)
Rec^d Enclosed from Lord Baltemore
April 24^th 1682.

The Northern Indians having violated the peace, he prays
that the Governor of New York would forbid trade with them
till they desist from the depredations made now by them.

Letter from C. Baltemore to William Blathwait dated 11^th
March 1681/2.

Maryland. 11^th March 1681/2.
Sir,
The enclosed I send you for your perusal and desire you'll
please (at some fitting time to give my noble Lord the Earl of
Anglesey and Sir Lyonell Jenkins a sight of them. I have writt
so much and so lately to them that I dare not be as yett, so
bold as to trouble them with any more letters—therefore upon
the encouragement, you have given, I presume to send you the
within Copies. The one is of a letter lately sent by me, and
my Counsell to Captain Anthony Brockholls Comander in
Chiefe at New York under his Royal Highness the Duke of
Yorke. Has been occationed by some murders that were per-
petrated (as we suppose) the last sumer by the Northern
Indians; tho' I can't say that we have very certaine grounds
for it, by reason 'twas never knowne that the Northern Indians
made so great a descent in that part of the Province, where
the five men and a woman were slaine the 15^th last June: but
being not able (notwithstanding our endeavours ever since) to
fix those murders on any of our neighbouring Indians; and
being certainely informed, that several parties of those Indians
doe intend, again this spring, to visitt Maryland first & then
Virginia (their pretence hither being to war with some Indians