Moreover, right stricly forbidding and commanding in Our behalf, on certain heavy penalties, the aforesaid defendants, and all others whom it may concern, that pending the matter in appeal, they neither do attempt, nor innovate any thing against the aforesaid Appellants, but, on the contrary, if any thing be done, attempted or innovated, that they immediately and without hesitation repair it, and place it in its first and proper position. Leaving copy hereof and of your summons for the behoof of the Defendants, and reporting to Us, on the day aforesaid, what you shall have done herein. Given in the Hague, on the twenty-eighth day of April, XVI' and forty-eight.

252 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Resolution of the States General approving the preceding Mandamus.

[ From the Kegister of West India Affairs, 1688--165), in the Royal Archives at the Hagne. ]

Thursday, 30'" April, 1648. The draft of the Maiidamus in the case of appeal prepared by order of their cuyier and Meiyn.

High Mightinesses in behalf of Jochum Pieters' Cuyter and Cornells Melyn being read to the Assembly, it is, after previous deliberation, held as enacted, and it is further ordered to be dispatched and issued.

Mesolution of the States General to grant Safeguard to Messrs. Cuyter and

[From the Register of West India Affairs, 1633--1651, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Wednesday, 6"" May, 1648. A certain other petition presented to their High Mightinesses in the name and Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, their High Mightinesses' subjects and inhabitants in New Netherland, is read to the Assembly, Mandamus. Setting forth, that their High Mightinesses were pleased on the 28"" April last, to grant them, the petitioners, a Mandamus in case of appeal, with the clause suspending the sentence which Peter Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland under the West India Company, with the advice of his Council, pronounced against them on the 25"" July, 1647, and that their High Mightinesses, in addition, have granted them, the petitioners, liberty, pending the case in appeal, to return hence to New Netherland aforesaid, and use and enjoy their property there free and unmolested, the same as other colonists and inhabitants.