The proceedings against hi|^ircensurabi'e.° the Eight men, particularly against Jochura Pieters Cuytter and Cornelis Molyn occurred also in the beginning, and the Director manifested so much partiality therein, that he afforded many an opportunity of judging of his character and its nature, but little to his advantage ; for every one clearly saw and remarked that Director Kieft had more favor and aid and counsel in his suit than his adversary, and that one Director was the advocate of the other, as Director Stuyvesant's siuvvesant exhibits own words imported ^ and signified ° when he said " These Boorish brutes would : harsliness, anil

ibe''fermer's. ''"''^ hereafter endeavor to knock me over also, but I shall now manage it so that they will have their bellies full in all time to come." And how it was managed the result of the suit can testify, for they must pay fines and were cruelly banished, and in order that nothing should be wanting, when Cornelis Molyn pleaded for '''-^il ' grace until intelligence of the result of his appeal in Fatherland should be "' received, he was threatened, as Molyn who is a living man hath himself declared, in these or similar words: -- "Had known, Molyn, that you would have divulged

our sentence, or brought it before their High Mightinesses, I should have had Molyn tiireatened to you hanged forthwith OH the highest tree in New Netherland." Now as this occurred before two pairs of eyes, it can be denied it may not be true, but ;