And whereas the aforesaid suit is not yet terminated and the actual circumstances of the petitioner do not by any means admit of his longer sojourn in this country, Therefore, We, after previous deliberation, have granted and accorded, as We do hereby grant and accord unto him, safe conduct and passport to repair freely from this country back again to New Netherland aforesaid, the abovementioned suit notwithstanding ; and he shall be accordingly at liberty to dwell there on his property unmolested and undisturbed by any person whatsoever, during the time that the suit remains here undecided the petitioner having empowered a person here to defend his right in or out ;

of court against the said sentence. Wherefore We order and command all and every person being in our service and under our obedience, whom this may in any wise concern, either in this country, on the passage, or in New Netherland, and especially the abovenamed Stuyvesant and his Council that they shall cause and allow the abovenamed petitioner to enjoy the full effect hereof, and accordingly, not to molest him in his person nor in any wise to be hindering unto him, on pain of incurring our highest indignation. Given at the Hague, under our seaj, paraph and signature of our Secretary, the SO"" June XVI" and fifty.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 409

lution of the States General approving Hie preceding Letter.

[ From the Register of Weet India Affairs, 1638 -- 1G51, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]