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.

An Interrogatory for Secretary Tienhoven, who departed hence from the Hague contrary to their High Mightinesses' order, sets forth : -- That he debauched Lisbeth van Hoogvelt, under a promise of marriage, kept house with her some months, and that they conversed together as man and wife; the said Tienhoven having been previously married in New Netherland, where his wife is still living.

Divers Extracts from the papers of the year 1651, received from New Netherland.

Extract from the counter protest of Lubbert van Dincklage, dated SS""

February, 1651. ^

Their High Mightinesses' letters have bean scandalously slighted by you, especially by the Director, instead of communicating them to me, and obeying their High Mightinesses' orders,

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as ought to have been done. That this is incontrovertibly true and truthful, is more than manifest, for the Director and Council are cliarged by the said letter, dated 12"' April aforesaid, to permit the continuance of the Board of Nine Men until their High Mightinesses' further orders: that is not only disobeyed and slighted, but the instruction and its amplification, granted them by our court, is by you set at nought.