IsACK Allerton, Jacob Stoffelsen, This is the mark ~~j y of Thomas Hall, Gerrit Wolffersen, Jan Evertsen Bout, made by himself. The mark p of CoRNELis Melyn, Barent Dikcksen, made by himself.

Judgment pronounced hy Director Stmjvesant on Jochem Pietersen Kmjter.

It. 1647. The 10 August this was sent to my house by the clerk, Jacob Kieft.

Whereas, Jochim Pietersen Kuyter, aged 50 years, a native of Ditmersen, hath presumed and undertaken to threaten with the finger the Hon'''" Director, his Chief, here in the meeting

;

214 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. of the Eight men, who were assembled as a Board, and to say -- When he had doffed the coat with which his Lords and Masters had cloathed him, he will then certainly have him: witness his own confession dated IG"" July last, when he said, in Our court, that he gave some explanations to this effect: That this could happen only when Mynheer had taken off the coat his Lords and Masters had put on him ; and the abovenamed Jochem Pietersen, in company with one Cornelis Melyn, drew up, prepared and wrote a false and libelous letter, dated 27 October, 1G44, which he signed with Melyn and sent over in the name of the Eight chosen men, to the Hon'"''' Directors of the General Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, wherein they clandestinely and most scandalously accuse, injure, criminate and charge the late Director Kieft, then their lawful Governor and Chief, with divers criminal misdeeds as is and can still be more fully seen and read in the original and authentic copy thereof. We and Our Council having inquired and taken testimony as to the truth thereof, at the request of said Director Kieft, it is, accordingly, found that such libelous letter is in many parts, false, lying and defamatory, as appears and is proved by experience and by the evidence of others heard to the number of fifteen ; also, by the confession and answers of the co-signers ; Therefore, the Fiscal instituting criminal suit and process, accuses and convicts the aforesaid Jochem Pietersen of having offended against the Director's quality and falsely injured him in writing.