Janua 1623 Wee will not reason censure: but reason moveth vs to conceive that this State doth exasperate both Inhabitants and straingers Christians and Heathen vnto estranged conversations towardes our nation who beinge seriouslie over awed with your displeasure though they dare not expresse the same in plaine fearmes yet doe manifest asmuche in all theyr demenors and shunn both personall Emilities and mutuall Commerce vnlesse vegent necessitie occation either the one or th other, so that though in out, ward appearance wee seeme to have free Trade: wee fine in effect that no man comes to our house to buij or sell ame thinge that can bee gotten or vented elswheare: but expecience hath taught vs that where Gouer, nors are marchants it is usuall to proclaime ffree Trade when they intend nothinge lesse but will have theyr owne two ne servee first. vou restraint of trade either by threatned force or intollorable exactions your pretended or rather sought for quarrells which ye Chineses to the subvertion of ye trade as also your unreasonable Im posts and Taxes in Baeavia whith other restructions approves our Residence in this place to bee rather a prison then free place of Trade & Comerce and well may the fore runner of further mischiefe & damage to o Trade if not in tinne preventeer.
Likewise your surped Authoritie over the Subiects of or gratious Coveraigne your worse then Beathenishe prosecution in course of pretended Justice: your more then vnciuill opbradinge us with the lie in Councell before approbation by vnpartiall Judges which repetition of surmized wronges to be by us offered are suche arguments of dainger that both reason and Religion su bidds vs beware and vse the most honest and lawfull meanes of prevention that wee may for the preservation of or Implo iers estate comitted to or charge and our owne safeties./ Dheise Capitall causes apparantlie tendinge to te Dishoner of o natione in theife partes utter ruine of or honr Emploiers estates though though wee have hetherto which vmoonted patience suffered through the hope we had that those trobles vexatio and disgraces so usuallie putt vpon vs would now at last ce ase seeinge that all materiall points of difference have bin referred into Europe.
But Contrariwise perceininge those your actions of on pression to be which out end by your vninst and disgrace full ceedinges on saterday last beinge the third of January 3623 in this pettie busines for our blackes housinge f of all pullinge downe their houses with out givinge vs sent warninge and then appointinge vs a place to build other houses for them and havinge almost halfe finise the same you then Comanded vs to leave of buildinge as tha your made it yhoe pastime to vex vs & putt o Master o Cha but not onlie this but manie other suche like occations sufficientlie admonish vs that this is noe place for vs t continue & resyde in, where sache scornefull indignit and oppressions are continuallie putt vpon us & therefor our request is vnto the right wolle the Generall e Com tes for the hon.