Oeuvres de Champlain
Chapitre 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 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.)