We have seen that the Dutch interfered with the Swedish operations, when Minuit and Ridder arrived. But in 1642 the Swedes and Dutch were drawn closer together and made common cause against the English. Jan Jansen, through orders from his superiors, proceeded to the Schuylkill with armed men, probably assisted by Ridder; and, since the English were unwilling “to depart immediately in peace”, he burnt their storehouse and dwellings, and sent the settlers as prisoners to Manhattan. Lamberton, however, “who was on his guard” escaped with his vessel. The damages sustained by the English were estimated at £1,000, and, if this is not too exaggerated, the settlement must have been considerable. The English settlement at Varkens Kill was undisturbed. It was situated some distance from the Dutch and English forts, far from the paths of the fur trade, and was probably too strong for the weak forces at the disposal of Ridder and Jansen. The English assured Commander Ridder, however, that they would submit “to the one who was strongest and most able to give them protection”, and when Governor Printz arrived they were incorporated into the Swedish colony, as we shall see. Sir Edmund Plowden, who had been given a grant including the eastern shore of the Delaware, made preparations to send settlers there in 1641. He protested against the doings of the New Haven Delaware Company, and, through the aid of Parliament, interested the English of Virginia in his venture. On the eighteenth of March, 1642, Governor Berkeley addressed a letter and protest to “the right worthy Governor of the Swedes and to Henrick Huygen in charge of the South River”, giving a short account of the real and imaginary discoveries, settlements and occupations of the English on the Delaware and their rights there, and admonishing the Swedes to submit to the authority of the English crown and to “recognize the title and dominion” of Governor Plowden. The letter goes on to say that Sir Edmund Plowden wished to establish “friendship and good peaceable correspondence” with the Swedes, and that he desired them “not to sell or give to the native Indians there any arms or ammunition, nor hinder the free trade, passage, residence or commerce in the said South River.” The protest probably elicited a reply from Ridder, and there was the end of the matter.