(Tn the margin was:) The States General of the United iNetherlands have, upon previous deliberation, placed this with the papers annexed, in the hands of Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their petition, High Mightinesses' Deputies for the West India Company's aff'airs, to inspect and to examine them, and to hear and understand the petitioner and Secretary van Tienhoven, who is at present here at the Hague, again and again, and to make a report on the whole matter to their High Mightinesses. Done at the Assembly of the Noble States General, the S"" February, 1G50. (Signed) JoHAN van Reede, V. By order of the same. (Signed) Corn' Musch, 1650. (Endorsed) Cornells Melyn.

Schedule N" 3. Sentence pronounced hj Director Stuyvesant on Cornelius Melyn,

Whereas Cornells Melyn, born at Antwerp, aged about five and forty years, inhabitant and burgher of the city of New Amsterdam, in New Netherland, hath dared, on the 2'^ May, 1645, and did (according to the sworn affidavit thereof being) set himself in opposition and contravention to justice, threatening the Honorable Director Kieft, at the time his lawful Governor and superior, with the gallows and the wheel; or, as the delinquent, according to words to the Fiscal and other officers ordered his confession, without torture, perverted the to execute the judgment, and said -- Let those who have given you orders, look to it, that they do not reach the gallows and the wheel -- and hath further resisted justice and the order of the Hon'''' Director Kieft aforesaid, so that the Fiscal was obliged to enter a protest of contumacy