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

see and hear it adjudged null, void and of no effect, and therefore to amend and correct it according to law, if such be proper ; to answer such demand as the aforesaid Mr. van der Capellen tho Ryssel and Gerrit van de Voorde cum suis, on the day indicated will make in order that parties being heard, such remedy in justice and even grace, if necessary, .may be by us provided, as shall be found pertinent. Further strictly forbidding and commanding in our name, the aforesaid respondents and all others whom it may concern, on certain heavy penalties, that they, pending the case in appeal, do not do, attempt, nor innovate

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ao-ainst, nor to the prejudice of it, nor of the appellants, whom we, for reasons, have relieved of the indebita interjection, issue and prosecution of said appeal ; but were anything on the contrary done, attempted or innovated, that he immediately and without delay repair, and put it in its original and most proper place, without failing in any part thereof. And whereas|some of the aforesaid persons may sojourn at present without these United Provinces and the jurisdiction thereof, you shall make service hereof at their last place of abode, and on their factors, attorneys or the agents of their property, if any they have subject to our^authority ;