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• We have received your several letters, perused your commissions, presented by your honoured agents, and seriously considered what hath been by them either in writing or conference, propounded, concerning those injurious and hostile attempts made by the Mohawks (Agniers) upon some of your neighbouring Eastern Indians, of whom (as we are informed) some are converted to the Christian faith, and others are willing to be taught and may in time prove disciples to our saving Lord and master, and as such we pity them, but see not how we can protect or afford the help desired, without exposing the small English plantations and our own neighbouring Indians (of which some also profess christianity) to danger; we give due credit to your deputies, and can conceive you may have just ground for a war, but we have yet no just cause of quarrel with the Mohawks, nor is it safe for us to engage in a controversy which we neither do nor have means satisfyingly to understand, the Mohawks neither being in subjection to nor in any confederation with us; we are free to hold a neighbourly correspondance with you, and would have settled a free commerce betwixt the English and French colonies, but your agents thought it either unseasonable till matters were composed betwixt the Mohawks and your Indians, or else propounded such restrictions as would have taken away all convenience and freedom from the trade.We have received your several letters, perused your commissions, presented by your honorary agents, and seriously considered what been by them either in writing or conference, propounded, concerning these abusive and hostile expectations made by the Mohawks (Agniers) upon some of your nearbouring Eastern Indians, of WHM (as we are informed) some agents are converted to the Christian fact, and other areas willing to be taught and may in time prove disciples to our saving Lord and master, and as such we pity themb, but see not how much we can protect or otherwise fail to anticipate, not yet enough to anticipate, not enough to justify the small plantations and our growing Indians (of what some others profess themselves Lord and master, and as such we pity themb, but only not yet yet, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet enough, not yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yet yetC1Histoire du Canada, tome I