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     Stood up Colonel James on Behalf of his nation of Indians Lib. X.

   & says there is a woman that is Queen of pamunkey & Queen

   of them all she has a good heart & presents her duty to his

   Excellency & desires to Live in Love & Friendship with the

   English & has sent him a Present

     And thereupon presents his hand to the Govr on Behalf of

   the Queen which his Excellency received & afterwards return

   ed in like manner Assuring them of all Truth & Justice & that P. 232

   his Masr Employed none but such as were so

     Collo James presents his Excellency six Beaver skins

     Collo James says the young men would be all of one heart

   with the English provided they were not disturb'd in their

   hunting

     To which his Excellency Answers that upon their true and

   good Behaviour he will take care to have such persons as

   affront or abuse them punished allone as for abusing any of

   his Majstys Subjects Collo James present Six Beaver Skins

   more which he says are by the Queen his Mistress to his

   Excellency to bestow on his Servants & hopes before they go

   away they will shake hands heartily & then set down as not

   having further to say

     His Excellency tells them he takes well their present & will

   return them another

     Then his Excellency bad the Interpreter to tell the Emperor

   of Piscattoway that in as much as he has been in this Province

   a considerable time he should have been glad to have seen him

   before now however he is wellcome

     Bidds him ask the Emperor if he or his Indians were under

   any fear or diffidence or if any one gave them ill impressions

   of any ill usage they might expect from him to which the Em

   peror says no not any Body And says that he would have come

   before now when his Excellency sent for him but that the In

   dians that his Excellency spoke to, to bid him come in deceived

   him & came not too him but went to Nanjotticot but that he p. 234

   was now come in

     His Excellency gives them to understand that we have not

   any design of advantage from them but that the King his

   Master desires they may be kindly Used & that it is most for

   their Advantage to Live quietly & easy among us

     Tells them that several Murthers have been committed of

   Late & divers persons injured that we do not certainly know

   who it was that has done it but hope it was not them they

   absolutely deny they are Guilty of any such thing

     His Excellency observes to them how they have Shuffled &

   put of & on & Broke their Articles so that it was but Reason

   able to suspect them tells them he expects they should be very

   punctual to what is now said & promised or otherwise he will