The inquiry as to the cause, the authors and management of the aforesaid bloody and ruinous war is considered by your High Mightinesses' Deputies and the associate Directors, to be necessary and essential, and with this view, that the aforesaid Cornelis van Tienhoven be ordered not to depart for New Netherland until he shall be heard in the matter aforesaid on certain interrogatories committed for that purpose to paper and annexed hereunto, nor until this case be disposed of.

liesolution of the States General on the preceding Report.

[ From Ihe Register of West India Affaire, 163S -- 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, g"" August, 1650. Folio 579. The report being heard of Mess" van Aertsbergen and others their High Mightinesses' previous deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, having in virtue of Secretary Cornelis the resolutlon of the 21" of Julv last, causcd Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven Tan Tienhoven. •' •'

to be heard and examined by the advocate M' Herman van Zuylen and Nyevelt, in presence of themselves and some Directors of said Company also to answer to certain points ;

^1? d° ^"'^ ^'"'" ^'^^ articles respecting the war in New Netherland, submitted and exhibited to their High Mightinesses on the day aforesaid it is, after previous deliberation, ;

resolved and concluded that copy of aforesaid points and articles be furnished, at his own expense, to the aforenamed Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven, who shall be obliged to answer and file his reply thereunto within eight days after the receipt thereof; and meanwhile remain here at the Hague without departing. The Lords of Friesland have hereupon repeated their previously made declarations.