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 then ent them a formal memorial, in which he maintained his mater’s right to the whole Magellanick region, and exhorted the Englih to retire quietly from the ettlement, which they could neither jutify by right, nor maintain by power.

offered them the liberty of carrying away whatever they were deirous to remove, and promied his receipt for what hould be left, that no los might be uffered by them.

propoitions were expreed in terms of great civility; but he concludes with demanding an anwer in fifteen minutes.

while he was writing received the letters of warning written the day before by the Englih captains, he told them, that he thought himelf able to prove the King of Spain’s title to all thoe countries, that this was no time for verbal.