and against all the members of the Court generally, do I protest for and on account of all damage and losses already suffered or yet to arise, from the omission and neglect of orders and instructions to do what is right and their High Mightinesses command and expressly ;

order you, in case you do not repent, to wit, sincerely and indeed, and not in fine phrases, as has hitherto been your case. Dated Manahatans, New Netherland, this 29"' July, 1649. (Signed) Cornelis Melyn.

Answer to Cornelis Melyn's disrespectful Protest handed to my Wife, as she says, by Adriaen van der Donck and A. Hardenbergh.

We hear and see, but protest against the disrespectful discourtesies contained in the protest, especially against the seditious service of the Mandamus, at an unsuitable place, in the Church, and with much disparaging language in presence of the entire Commonalty. Nevertheless, we esteem the service valid, and say, as before, that we shall honor and regard whatever our Sovereigns will decide. We are no ways bound to restitution, since we have not received anything; nor to any reparation so long as the case is in appeal, and no additional injury done the protestor. We grant and allow him peaceable use of his lands and effects; what I have promised I shall perform; namely, to send an Attorney to hear, and to witness the confirmation or annulment what other officers, councillors, will do, whether to go or to stay, we leave at ;

their discretion and pleasure. Therein we have nothing to command ; neither does it quadrate with the tenor of the Mandamus. Who the delinquent is, God and the law have to decide. The protestor has never been refused copy of the judgment. The party must apply for the other papers in the suit and appear before the Judge who will have prudence and knowledge enough to decide what and which affidavits ought to be produced whether they have been legally taken before ;