A short digest of the excessive and very prejudicial neglect that New Netherland has experienced since it has been under the Directors of the West India Company, <fec 332 Jamiaiy 31. Answer of the West India Company to the several points contained in the Abstract of the Remonstrance from New Netherland. ( Note. -- The original of this document is in the handwriting of Cornells van Tienhoven ), 338 1. Petition of the Delegates from New Netherland to the States-General, praying dispatch in the redress of their grievances, Ac, 346 February 1. Resolution of the States-General, referring the foregoing petition, Ac 34Y 8. Memorial of Cornells Melyn, Patroon on Staten Island, to the States-General, complaining of Director Stuyvesant's irreverent neglect of their High Mightinesses' mandamus, Ac, with the following papers: 348 July 25. Sentence pronounced by Director Stuyvesant on Cornells Milyn 349

6. Authority to serve the mandamus on Director Stuyvesant, Ac, 351 May 19. Letter of the Prince of Orange to Director Stuyvesant, admonishing him not to molest J. P. Cuyter and Melyn Cornells 351 May 22. Receipt from the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, of a sealed letter from the States-

General 352 1649. January 2. Cornells van Tienhoven's certificate that Mr. Melyn had delivered to Director Stuyvesant certain letters from the States-General and the Prince of Orange, 352 8. Certificate of the service of the States-General mandamus on Director Stuyvesant in the church, in presence of the commonalty 352 July 29. Cornells Melyn's " disrespectful protest" handed to Mde Stuyvesant, 353 August 1. Director Stuyvesant's answer to Cornells Melyn's disrespectful protest, 354 March 16. Return of service made of their High Mightinesses' mandamus on Vice-Director Lubbert van Dinclage, and his answer, 355 March 16. Return of service of the mandamus on the members of the Council and others, and their answers, 355 March 16.