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 ;

Commissioners or whether they were given clandestinely and by inducement to affront and asperse the Judge, on which points tiie opinion of the protestor himself is of no avail. Of damage and losses we deem ourselves guiltless, since we do not oblige the protestor to pay

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any costs, or to return anew to Fatherland. We give and grant him, pending the matter in appeal, the quiet possession and peaceable use of his lands, houses and property. Done Manhattans this P' August, 1049. (vSigned) P. Stuyvesant. (Endorsed) Protest on behalf of Cornells Melyn against Director Stuyvesant, and the Answer of Stuyvesant that he would send an Attorney; refuses the Protester's demand for copies of the papers to be used against him, as they must be applied for by the party.

No. 10. We, the undersigned, at the request of Cornells Melyn, and in virtue of certain Mandamus granted him by their High Mightinesses, did, on the sixteenth of March, 1G49, summon the Hon''''' Lubbert van Dincklage, Vice-Director of New Netherland, to appear by the first