Out of respect for your friends, many of your faults have been overlooked, but for all that, no change for the better has been observed. We are, therefore, constrained recommend you to attend to your bounden duty; otherwise, we shall be to obliged to make such provision in the premises as shall be proper. Herewith, we commend you Honorable, Beloved, Valiant, Faithful, to God's protection and remain Your good friends, The Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 9"" April, 1052. (Signed,) F. Schuylenborch. Eduard Man. (Addressed) Honorable, Valiant, Beloved, Faithful Hendrick van Dyck, Fiscal, in New Netherland.

Mr. van Dyck's answer to the preceding Letter.

My Lords. Thecomplaints I have made, in my quality as Fiscal, against Cornells Melyn, in the despatch of the 28"" of December 1650, I was obliged to make, as appears by the Journal of the Supercargo, for the protection of my Lords and Masters. The complaints in my letters of IS"- and 12"" September 1651 of the Director's anger against me, I, to my sorrow, have been obliged to make, and you can infer from all the foregoing, whether I had and still have not,

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VL 5X3 good reasons to address you in this manner ; I doubt not but 'twill grieve and greatly astonish you that there are bad men here and that they administer their government to your injury and the vexation of the Commonalty. 'Twere desirable that early provision v^'ere made therein. The ship with which Melyn came, anchored with the flood before Staten Island about noon, so that I could not sail down there much before evening, when I did my best with the watch on the ship until she should come up to the harbor, according to the declaration hereunto annexed. Had my recommendation to the Director to institute my suit against Melyn and the Skipper conjointly been attended to, such disorder had not occurred in the proceedings, nor would the judgments of the Director and Council have conflicted with each other.