you, and to you, that you shall allow the aforesaid petitioners to act order and charge unmolested and peaceably to enjoy the full effect of these, Our good designs and intentions, without failing in any way therein. Done 28"" April, 1648.

Mandamus in Case of the Appeal of Messrs. Ciiyter and Alelyn. [From the AcU-boek of the States General, In the Eoyal Archirea at the Hague. ]

Mandamus in case of appeal with suspensory clause for Jochem Pietersz Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, inhabitants of New Netherland.

Folio 574.The States General of the United Netherlands to the first marshal or messenger hereunto requested, who is qualified to act. Health. Know Ye, that We have received the humble petition presented unto Us, by and on behalf of Jochim Pietersz Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, setting forth that they, the petitioners, had, by permission and leave of the Assembly of the Nineteen, of the General West India Company, transported themselves in the year One thousand six hundred and thirty-nine, with wives and children, and the means of private citizens, besides a large stock of cattle from this country into New Netherland, so that they, the petitioners, had in the year 1643, after a heavy outlay, much trouble and indescribable labor, brought into good order their lands, houses and other improvements, which they were obliged to abandon in the year aforesaid, in consequence of the war that Director Kieft illegally and contrary to all public Law, had commenced against the Indians or inhabitants of New Netherland, and have accordingly lost all their property; wherefore the petitioners, together with the other six chosen men resolved, in the name of the unanimous Commonalty in New Netherland, and sent over by the Blue Cock in the year 1644, their complaints on this point in two letters to the Assembly of the Nineteen, and to the Directors in Amsterdam.