I shouldhave sent the papers in the case of Melyn altogether, but as nobody would consent to collatethem with me, not even Allard Anthony, notwithstanding I had requested him to do so, and I dare not trust the documents in my house through fear that Stuyvesant would remove all my papers as he proposed and threatened, it was therefore out of my power to send them over. Had he been willing to permit me to go, I should have carried them with me. I doubt not but such unheard of mode of proceeding will be taken into consideration, and we released at once from this dreadful yoke. I have had every intention to build on a lot that

I had purchased from Mr. Dincklage; also, to undertake a bouwerie, but dare not commence so long as things continue thus, dreading and anticipating the moment I had any real estate here, that a false suit would be thrown around my neck and my property be swallowed up according to all the examples I have seen of those who do not submit to haughty humor, and cannot say -- Yes, My lord.

Had I been able to go over, I should indeed say, what now I dare not write.

A Protest of the Fiscal Hendrick van Dyck, states in substance. That the Director molests and injures him, the Fiscal making seizures by his own authority; ;

cites him before the Lords Majors in Fatherland; protests against it before God and the entire world.