The merchants of the two countries would never agree except under higher authority.
"I have heard both parties," he said, "the new and the old companies, two or three times in full council, and tried to bring them to an agreement, but it won't do.

I have heard that My Lords the States have been hearing both sides, English and the Hollanders, over and over again, and that the States have passed a provisional resolution, which however does not suit us.

Now it is not reasonable, as we are allies, that our merchants should be obliged to send their cloths roundabout, not being allowed either to sell them in the United Provinces or to pass them through your territories.

I wish I could talk with them myself, for I am certain, if they would send some one here, we could make an agreement.

It is not necessary that one should take everything from them, or that one should refuse everything to us.