And as the Petitioner's own affairs in New Netherland are going fast to ruin, and the common Redress is here by divers means kept back, the Petitioner repeatedly besought your High Mightinesses, most humbly, to dismiss him, principally in his petition of the tenth of March, and now lately, he proposing from day to day to depart, by your High Mightinesses' consent, with his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, maids, and in that design had packed and shipped all his implements and goods. Whereupon the Petitioner proceeded to Amsterdam to arrange his other affairs at that place ; but he understood here, before he left, that the Hon"' Directors of Amsterdam had forbidden all the skippers to- receive him, the Petitioner, or his, even though exhibiting your High Mightinesses' express orders and consent. All which came, at the last moment, most strangely and unexpectedly on the Petitioner, as he was not aware that he had given any cause therefor. He consequently resolved to speak to the Directors privately and also at the Assembly, under the impression that this arose from some misunderstanding or other, and that the affair would go well notwithstanding; making use, with this view, of influential friends at Amsterdam to facilitate matters as much as possible, which at first had the appearance of a happy result, as Mie Petitioner took great trouble and pains ; yea, to such a degree, that the Directors themselves acknowledged nothing more could be expected of an honorable man.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VI. 477 But the Petitioner afterwards found the dispositions of the Directors much estranged, when they learned that the Petitioner's dismissal stuck here on reconsideration, and they became inclined to dispute with him -- First. The Petitioner's commission and his constituents' legitimacy, which they at once