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 to be sound and just, and Husband was commanded to restore both the ship and the cargo. He had stolen away, however, with the vessel before he could be intercepted, and in consequence, the court ordered all the papers relating to the case to be transmitted to England as a basis for his prosecution in the courts of that country.

There are indications that Dutch ships set out for Holland from Virginia in the course of 1651 and 1652, having probably left subsequent to the surrender to Parliament, in which event they had been permitted to load without having first obtained a special license. In 1653, the need of such a license was recognized by the authorities of the Colony, doubtless, however, in consequence of the war which had now broken out between England and Holland. In that year the overtures of Stuyvesant for