(Sur le dos est écrit.)
Requeste de Monsieur de Caen.
(State Paper Office, Colonial Papers, vol. V, art. 87.)
XII.
May 18th. 1630.
A letter to the Lord Mayor of London.
Wee have bin informed that notwithstanding the strict directions that have bin given from this Board.
A lettre to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffe of London.
Whereas you have formerly received order from this Board to summmon the Marchants trading for Canada, to deliver the Keyes of the warehouses, where the Beaver skinns 12/1424remaine unto your Lordshipp upon the depositing of a certaine som of money, which as wee are informed the said Marchants refuse to doe. We doe therefore pray and require your Lopp. etc., to the said Merchants an other summons to deliver the said Keyes, that so the said skins may be delivered unto Generall de Cane upon the depositing of so much money, as was agreed upon by our said former direction which if they refuse now againe to doe upon this second significacion, then wee require, and hereby authorize your Lopp. etc., to breake open the doores of the said warehouses, and to see the Beaver skinns delivered to the said Generall de Cane or his Assignes upon the depositing of the said sume of money as aforesaid, for which this shall your Lopp. etc., sufficient warrant etc., And so etc.