granted by us to the stockholders of the West India Company, Patroons and Colonists there, of which and of the infringments thereon, arising between the judge and the Patroons, cognizance and adjudication belong exclusively to us, and as we have tffften cognizance of, and* granted writ of appeal in, similar cases, he, tiierefore, trusts, as no person can be denied justice in the United Provinces, that it will be accorded also to him ; he constitutes himself accordingly for himself and the aforesaid Van de Voorde cum suis, appellant from the aforesaid pretended judgment and forcible execution consequent thereupon, respectfully requesting that he may to this end, be granted writ of appeal with inhibitory and prohibitory clause, also relief against the indebit interjection, with issue and prosecution of aforesaid appeal also, order directed to the aforesaid Stuyvesant, Wilet, his agent, and all others who would make themselves a party herein all in due form. Which being considered, we, therefore, ;

require and command you, thereunto, hereby commissioning you, that at the request of the said Mr. Henrick van der Capelle tho Ryssel and Gerrit van de Voorde cum suis, you do, in our name, summon the aforesaid Director Stuyvesant, his councillors aforesaid and in the judgment mentioned, Wilet, his agent, and all others who would make themselves party herein, to come and appear, or to send attorneys at a suitable day before us here in the Hague, to sustain and defend the aforesaid judgment and its contents, or to renounce the same if they think well ; to