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

wholly rejected saying they were a lawless and mutinons rahble, whereof he, the Petitioner, ;

was one of the most notorious ringleaders, representing himself as Delegate of the Commonalty, and their late president; that, therefore, they, the Directors, did not mean, but were even unwilling that he should depart ; also, that the matter now rested no longer with them, but in the hands of the Lords Burgomasters of Amsterdam, without whose order and advice they were not doing anything; that the resolution to recall the Director, was the Petitioner's underhand work and much more of a like nature, too voluminous to relate. ;

Moreover, that they, the Delegates from New Netherland, had very improperly applied to the States General that people must come only to them ; -- meaning thereby the Amsterdam Chamber -- that their High Mightinesses had not the least authority over New Netherland ;