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
12/1414 of the warehouses, where the Beaver skinns remaine 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.
(_State Paper Office, Colonial Papers_, vol. V, art. 92.)