He then ſent them a formal memorial, in which he maintained his maſter’s right to the whole Magellanick region, and exhorted the Engliſh to retire quietly from the ſettlement, which they could neither juſtify by right, nor maintain by power.
He offered them the liberty of carrying away whatever they were deſirous to remove, and promiſed his receipt for what ſhould be left, that no loſs might be ſuffered by them.
His propoſitions were expreſſed in terms of great civility; but he concludes with demanding an anſwer in fifteen minutes.
Having while he was writing received the letters of warning written the day before by the Engliſh captains, he told them, that he thought himſelf able to prove the King of Spain’s title to all thoſe countries, that this was no time for verbal alter-
