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Episode 30, Mount Mary.

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We're currently on a series on Aztec's social history, which I am particularly enjoying, and would fully recommend purchasing.

Aztec society is certainly quite different to what I was expecting before I started this project, a very

special degree of sophistication, which doesn't quite leap to the forefront of the general

consciousness when thinking of the Aztecs.

In March 1627, Bradford was pleasantly surprised to receive a letter from the New Dutch colony,

which had been set up on Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson, the settlement which will

become New York, whose establishment we will of course give plenty of attention to down the road.

It basically said that since the Dutch and English motherlands were friendly, that they were happy

to trade whenever they might wish. A reply was made, and the friendliness was reciprocated,

and they told them they would never forget the

Dutch kindness they had received during their years there. He just asked them to avoid trading

with the natives in Buzzard's Bay, and not to settle in the lands claimed by the Council for New England.

The Dutch responded in August that while the King of England

could claim the land, the Dutch state general claimed them too. Some English patent would not

stop them trading in the lands around Plymouth if they wanted. That at least was the gist of the letter.

It was very pleasant and a polite exchange, even if the content wasn't.

Bradford replied, likewise with every courtesy, that they would expel any Dutch they found in their

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