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again provided twenty thousand guilders more, and sent, anew, a ship with some planters thither." In the autumn, deliberations were had respecting the means of maintaining New Netherland at less cost; and it was likewise resolved to levy six thousand guilders more for the colony. Some alterations were made in the "conditions" drawn up for the benefit of the planters, inasmuch as the same were found to be too prejudicial to the city. The planters, who sent their products, in part, at least, wherever they wished, were now, among other things, obliged to send them to this city [Amsterdam] alone. But, in the beginning of the year 1659, this point was so far modified that such planters as had repaid to the city the expenses of their conveyance over, might send their wares wherever they wished, except peltries and the products which they desired to export to the East, the North, or the Netherlands; all of which they should be holden to bring hitherwards. Yet the maintenance of this colony, at first, was so detrimental to the city, and what was brought from there produced so little, that it was resolved, in the following September, to get rid of it again, and to re-convey it to the West India Company in the best way possible; § but that body always showed a disinclination to such an arrangement. Meanwhile, in the years 1660 and 1661, there were again raised twenty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty guilders, for the benefit of the colony; || and, in the year 1662, one hundred guilders each was allowed to twenty-five families of Mennonists, who wished to betake themselves thither. From this time forward the colony began to prosper. The navigation and trade there, which

*Resolution of Council, B, 11th April, 1658, p. 16. [Hol. Doc. xv, p. 19.] Resolution of Council, B, 19th October, 20th December, 1658; p. 55, 72. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 21, 23.]

Res. of Council, B, 10th March, 1659, p. 91. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 27.] § Res. of Council, B, 30th September, 1659, p. 161. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 29.]

| Res. of Council, C, 25th August, 16th November, 1660, 6th Jauuary, 9th May, 1661, p. 50, 82, 99, 132. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 33, 34, 35, 37.],

Res. of Council, C, 20, April, 1662, p. 192. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 51. These Mennonists or Anabaptists formed an association, and adopted articles for the government of their proposed Colony, which were published in 1662, in the appendix to a quarto pamphlet of 84 pages, compiled from De Laet, De Vries, and the Vertoogh, entitled "Kort Verhae Van Nieuw Nederlant's Gelegentheit," &c. A copy of this work is in the Library of the New York Historical Society, and a translation of it by Mr. Henry C. Murphy, is about to be issued in the valuable series privately printed by Mr. James Lenox. Brodhead's N. Y. I. 699.]

contributed partly to the city's revenue, increased.* But the war with Charles II. King of Great Britain, which broke out in the year 1664, made an alt ration in all that had been done. The rising colony was conquered in the same year, about the beginning of September, by Robert Holmes. The King gained it permanently by the treaty of the year 1667. New Netherland was from that time called New York, which name was also given to New Amsterdam. In the mean time the council of Amsterdam resolved, in the year 1665, to confer the burgher-right of that city upon the former burghers of the city's colony in New Netherland.‡

*Res. of Council, C, 22d¡February, 10, 16, March, 1663, p. 233, 240, 244; D. 10th August, 24, 26, Oct. 1663, p. 26, 48, 49. [Hol. Doc. xv. p. 52, 54, 58, 61, 63, 65.]

Letters of DE WITT, IV, p. 386, 387; Holl. Merc. of 1664, p. 152; Vaderlandsche Historie, xiii. p. 119. [This statement is not quite accurate. Holmes conducted an expedition against the Dutch possessions on the coast of Africa; but the forces sent to capture New Netherland were commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls. The Colony of the city of Amsterdam on the South, or Delaware River, was reduced by Sir Robert Carr, under Nicolls' order. Brodhead's New York, I. 735, 744.]

75.]

Resolution of the Council, E, 26 Aug. 1665, p. 18. [Hol. Doc. XV, p.

VII.

THE SEVEN ARTICLES

FROM THE CHURCH OF LEYDEN,

16.17.

COMMUNICATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER,

BY

GEORGE BANCROFT.

LETTER.

NEW YORK, October 3, 1856.

MY DEAR MR. MOORE :-Agreeably to your request, I enclose a copy of the "Seven Artikells which ye Church of Leyden sent to yo Counsell of England to bee considered of in respeckt of their judgments occationed about theer going to Virginia.” As far as I know, they have never been published. The account of the principles of the Pilgrims, to which the author of the New England Chronology refers, is a different paper; and none of the successors of Prince seem to have been aware of the existence of this document. It escaped the notice of Bishop Wilberforce, to whom America is deeply indebted for the discovery of the original manuscript of Bradford's History of the Plymouth Colony; and of Mr. Anderson, who more distinctly announced to the world that the original manuscript of that long lost work was in the library of the Bishop of London.

We have now from Mr. Charles Deane of Boston, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Historical Society, an admirable edition of Bradford's History, illustrated with equal diligence and fidelity. On pages 30 and 31 of that volume, you will find a reference to the Seven Articles, which, however, were not inserted in the History, even in an abstract. They seem to have slumbered unnoticed for more than two centuries among the Virginia volumes in the State Paper Office in Westminster. The copy I send you was made for me by Mr. Sainsbury, a clerk in that office, in whose accuracy I have entire confidence.

For the just interpretation of the articles, the purpose of the Pilgrims must be borne in mind; and also the contemporaneous work of John Robinson, called "A just and necessary Apology of certain Christians, no less contumeliously they commonly called Brownists or Barrowists."