Respect for that and for your High Mightinesses' sovereign authority obliges and induces us to observe your High Mightinesses' orders in regard of the other, Rendering unto your ,High Mightinesses' letters full credit and obedience; meanwhile the returned Remonstrants bring with them, as they report and also exhibit to strangers, an authentic copy of the signed resolution of your High Mightinesses' deputies whereby we are, among other things, commanded to appear before your High Mightinesses to answer some charges. Although we have demanded copy of that resolution which has been communicated and read to some officers and inhabitants of this city, and even to foreigners, yet hath it been refused us up to the present time, so that we know not what to answer thereunto, much less what to do.

Right Honorable, High and Mighty Lords -- On being released by those to whom we are bound by oath, we shall not fail High Mightinesses, on your summons, being to appear before your ourselves conscious of not having committed anything worthy of punishment, either against your High Mightinesses' grandeur, oragainst the tenor of yourCommission, or contrary toour recorded oath, or to the injury or preji'dice of the public interest. We can therefore object nothing against the accusation presented by our inveterate opponents, who, we understand, are many and powerful, but a reply in the negative, together with an humble prayer that our secret accusers may appear personally before your High Mightinesses with their suborned witnesses, in order to convict us, in the usual course of law to our shame, disgrace and confusion, or in default of proof, to revoke the charge and to indemnify us for the damage and disgrace we have sustained. The first, which is vouchsafed, saving your High Mightinesses' authority and judgment, to the meanest offenders, belongs also to us, a freeborn citizen of a free State the last as a public ;