In the affair of Azilia the Proprietors had shown some appreciation of the existence of a frontier problem in their vast estate, not undivorced from hopes of revenue in quit-rents. Meanwhile they evaded the inquiries of the Board of Trade regarding more tangible aid of arms and money.30 [Note 30 On the controversy over proprietary aid, see C.O.; JCHA, April 18, 25, 1716; also, McCrady, S. C. under the Prop. Gov., pp. 571-2, and Osgood, Am. Col. in the Eighteenth Century, II. 354. Probably the donation of quit-rents was all that the Proprietors could offer in their situation. In November, 1718, they received an address of the governor and assembly to procure from the Crown a stationship to cruise for pirates, and '500 men to protect them against the Encroachment of the French Indians.' The appeal for the ship was apparently pressed, but it does not appear that the Proprietors interested themselves in the plea for a garrison (C.O. 5 :292, Proprietors' minutes under November 28, 1718, and February 27, 1718/19)]