Which English Nation hath, as your Remonstrants learn, found out a way neglected by your Honors, to provide and arm itself with a coat of mail in the shape of an unlimited patent and commission which it lately obtained from his Majesty of England.' "So that this commission and patent being executed by them according to their interpretation ; for experience in State affairs teaches and abundantly exemplifies, that the strongest are commonly in the right, and that the feeble, ordinarily, must succumb; the total loss of this Province is infallibly to be expected and anticipated, such apprehension being indubitably very strong; or, at least, it will be so cramped and clipped, that it will resemble only a useless trunk, shorn of limbs and form, divested of all its internal parts, the head separated from the feet; and therefore the Remonstrants would be, if not at once, wholly oppressed, and reduced to such a state of anxiety, as to be desperately necessitated, to their irreparable ruin, to abandon and quit this Province, and thus become outcasts with their families.

"It being objected and pleaded by the above named English, as a pretext for their designs, that the real right and propriety of this Province and its territories were not duly proved and justified on your Honors parts by proper commission and patent from their High Mightinesses. Whence it appears in consequence of the want of such commission and patent, the obtaining whereof from their High Mightinesses has been so long postponed, as if your Honors have been pleased to place the good inhabitants of this Province, as it were, upon glare ice, and have given them grounds and lands to which you have no real right.'- And in this way, too, the well intentioned English who have settled under your Honors Government are held in a labyrinth and a maze, without any right assurance how they shall have to demean themselves in observing the oath taken by them. \j)f allegiance to the Company and the States- General^.