In like manner, that your High Mightinesses may resolve that the Board of the Nine elected Select men, whose commission, order and instruction have been exhibited to your High Mightinesses, shall, until your High Mightinesses' further commands, remain in full force as it was, or ought to have been at the time of our departure from New Netherland, in order thus by peaceful means at once, to be able to obviate mischief if contrary to expectation any may happen; for the Delegates are of opinion that the people will not, otherwise, be contented, of which fact, abundant verbal information, remonstrance, complaint and memorials have been furnished. Requesting your High Mightinesses' speedy action herein, as the vessel lies in the Texel, ready to sail, and the Delegates are about to take their departure.

Appendix, read 12'* April, 1650.

On this day the 12"" April, of this year Sixteen hundred and fifty, before me Martin Beeckman admitted Public Notary by the Court of Holland and resident here, and the undernamed witnesses, appeared the worthy VVilhelm Noble, of Alckmaer, aged eight and twenty years, late Surgeon of Captain Blaeuwvelt, sailing the yacht La Gurse belonging to New Netherland, who declared and certified, as he hereby doth, on his manly troth, in place of an oath which he offers to take at all times, when required, that there had been no intelligence nor publication of the peace among the Spaniards in the West Indies, as the captain, skipper, surgeon, carpenter, steward, gunner and all the seamen on board the said yacht La Garse, have declared on oath, as appears by further Minute thereof remaining with Director Stuyvesant; and that consequently, they captured on the 22""* April, 1649, up in the river Tabasco a bark laden with grains of paradise. On the fifth of July, after a long fight they took a ship of four guns, laden with logwood ; afterwards, on the 19lh July, of the same year, seeing a ship that they took to be the prize from which they had been separated, they overtook her about eleven o'clock at night and hailed her, crying " Lie to.