Assembly Proceedings, April—May 1682. 305

according to the former Message Yesterday Sent by this house
to the Upper house; This house will Consent thereunto—
Signed p^r Order Tho Grunwin Cl of the Lower house

also this following Message Viz^t

Lower house 12th May 1682—
Jn Answer to the Upper houses Message concerning Stone
horses this do conceive the Same may be a Necessary Law but
desire it may be referred to the Consideration of the Next
Assembly—
Signed p^r Order Tho^s Grunwin Cl of the Lower house

Coll Tailler Sent to the Committee of Accounts he hath
leave of the House and goes—
Cap^t Ladd Sent from the Lower house returns the Articles
of Peace made with the Pisscattaway Indians &^t Anno 1666 and
Confirmed 1668 which having Delivered into this house he
Returns—
Taken into Consideration by this house the Vote of the
Lower house May the nth concerning the Indian Affairs
which was Ordered to be read and the Answer of this house
thereto Drawn up as foll: Viz^t—

Upper house May 12th 1682:
By the first Article of the Advice of the Lower house May
the 8th Our Agents to New York are to endeavour to make
peace for the Pisscattaway Indians as well as Ourselves, and in
that Lukewarm Indifferency they Leave that Advice or Vote
by their paper of 11th Instant—
By the 3^d Article of the Advice May the 8th In case the
Northern Indians make any inroad or Invasion or (in the Dis-
junctive) offer any Violence &c: to any Inhabitants of this
Province, then so soon and as Often as his Lordship Shall think
fitt he shall Supply the Pisscattaway Indians with Arms&c and
Men in Order to Our and their Defence—
So that if Our Agents make peace for us at New York and
leave out the Pisscattaways &^t and immediately after their
return the Northern Indians make an Inroad into this Province,

U. H. Journal
1659-98

his Lordship must either furnish Arms and Men to Pisscat-
taway, and So break peace with the Northern Indians again,
or must deny Arms and Men to the Pisscattaways contrary to
their own Advice 8th May and so break Articles with the Piss-
cattaways, and by that force them to Submitt to the Northern
Indians, Show Ourselves to the Eastern Shore Indians faithless
and put them upon like Submissions, and then Leave our-
selves open to all Indians without Guard—

p. 427