That we, having looked into the further petition presented to us this day, in the name and on the behalf of Jochem Pietersen Cuyter and Cornells Melyn, our subjects and inhabitants in New Netherland, have enlarged, as we do hereby enlarge, the Mandamus on the other side hereof, to wit, that it may be served not only by a messenger, marshal, notary, but by such other person, either public or private, as the aforesaid petitioners together, or one of them, shall accept or permit. Charging and commanding all and every whom it may in any wise concern, to regulate themselves precisely conformably hereunto, the same as if the aforesaid augmentation had been inserted, word for word, in the Mandamus aforesaid. Done at the Hague, on the sixth of May, 1648. ( Signed ) T. van Gent, V. (Lower stood)

By order of the Most Illustrious Lords States General. (Signed) Corn' Musch. Further endorsement on the aforesaid copy. No. 4. Copy of their High Mightinesses' Mandamus in case of appeal against the sentence which Petrus Stuyvesant and his Council pronounced on the 25"' July 1647 in New Netherland on the Manhattans respectively against Jochem Pietersen Kuyter and Cornells Melyn.

No. 5. Slates General to the Director in New Netherland, and (mutatis mutandis) to the Administration there.

[Omitted; being already printed, supra, p. 249.]

No. 6. To Peter Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, the IQ"" May, 1648.

The Prince of Orange.

Honorable, prudent, and discreet, specially dear.

You will receive by the bearers hereof, Joachim Pietersen Kuyter and Cornells Melyn, the commands which the High and Mighty Lords States General have resolved to communicate to you, to the end that you allow these people to enjoy their property free and unmolested there, by virtue of provision of appeal granted by their High Mightinesses unto them, with