But the people have, moreover, been driven away by harsh and unwarrantable proceedings; their Honors, however, authorized this, for they instructed Director Kieft to pick out faults The Directors order that a partial shoBid where none existed, and to consider a partial, ^ as a complete, r ' error and so forth. ' It ""^ c.nsidcred a» a eoraplele error, and has also been seen how the letters of the Eight Men have been treated, and the ^eipie."'"™'' ""'

result; besides many additional orders and instructions which are not known to us, and are alike ruinous but laying this aside for the present, with a word now :

and again by way of remark, let us proceed to examine how their servants, and the Directors and their friends, have fattened here from time to time, having played with their employers and the people as the cat plays with the mouse. It ^^.^ ^i,'p'ir'°m '''*'^

would, indeed, be very easy to give an account of their management and course laiwhhtmla^.'' from the beginning, but as the most of us were not here at that time, and Vol. f. 38

NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. consequently not eye witnesses, and as it was long ago and has partially escaped recollection, and did not seem to us so bad as afterwards when land was granted free, and the freemen began to increase, we shall therefore pass over the beginning, and let Mr. Lubbert van Dioglagen, Vice-Governor of New Netherland, describe the administration of Director Wouter van Twiller, with which he is known to be conversant, and treat only of the two last sad and senseless extravagances -- we should say, administrations -- of Director Kieft, which is