The marshal of the court was at my service according to the pleasure of the Director, but when the latter or his council affected displeasure, the officer durst not do any business for me or serve any process, in order to retain the Director's good graces.

19.

All this provisionally, the Directors of the West India Company reserving to their General Assembly of the XIX., these Instructions to add or diminish from, to,

according to circumstances, or otherwise to order, as to them shall seem proper. Thus done &c. Below was: Agrees with the original, ( signed) Gysbeut Rudolfi.

The alteration, diminution or enlarging of this Instruction has never been communicated to me, notwithstanding I have repeatedly besought the Lords Masters to be supported in my office, on account of the trouble the Director gave me in the performance of my duties. And finally I have received from the Hon'''' Lords Directors of the Chamber at Amsterdam, a letter

sent by the Director to my house, from which with sorrow I understand, that the Director and others his sycophants, who were lately in Fatherland, receive more credit than the truth itself; this will be demonstrated hereafter by the defence against the letter. Though I'm neither recalled nor dismissed thereby, the Director hath, nevertheless, discharged me, and in my place put his dear, notorious, profligate and perjured Secretary, Cornells van Tienhoven.

510 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Lampoon against Director Stuyvesant.

Tliis circulated Lampoon afforded tiie Director a pretence to deprive me of n:y office.