HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV. 327 him, the petitioner, to be subjected to torture, to which intent he had his, the petitioner's house, twice searched by the entire Council, himself also overhauling all the barrels, bales, cases, corners, stores, etc., the petitioner remaining meanwhile, for the space of thirteen long days, in the aforesaid close con6nement at the gate, and in the place where felons deserving death are usually imprisoned, without any one, even his own wife, being admitted to him, or communication with him ; and when, after minute search, nothing was to have any, the least discovered whereupon the Fiscal could institute proceedings against the petitioner, and detain him on suspicion, he is finally released, on the iterated request of good friends, on condition of giving Isaacq Foreest and Sibout Claessen as bail, to answer whatever the Fiscal might from time to time deem proper to institute against the petitioner and after the petitioner was kept ;

for the space of more than a year and a day in reatu., nothing meanwhile being produced against the petitioner, and the securities demanded to be discharged, he, the petitioner, was obliged to apply to the Nine Men, requesting them to intercede for him, that his case may be taken up or his bail discharged, which they did. But Stuyvesant would not condescend to answer the written petition of the Nine Men. The petitioner consequently, presented a petition in his own name, which he would not once notice, wherefore the petitioner presented another request, copy whereof is hereunto annexed. To this it was answered on the margin that it must be communicated to the Fiscal, which having been done, the Fiscal replied that he must have 5 to 6 months time for the purpose, as he knew nothing of the matter; this happened when the petitioner was on the point of leaving, for which he having asked permission, the Director refused to grant it, but the skipper connived at it, and consented to