Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded hereby to request the abovementioned Lords of Holland not to have any scruples against allowing said Mr. Henrick van der Capelien tho Ryssel copy of the said opinion and petition respectively, that he may make use of the same as to him shall seem meet.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter.

[ From the Eegialer of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Royal ArchiTes at the Hague. ]

Thursday, the 21" August, 1G53. Folio T5. Read a Memoir of Yonckheer Henrik van der Capelle tho Ryssel, ordinary Mr. Tander capeiie Deputy to their High Mightinesses' Assembly, to the effect, that he hath seen

what was submitted by the Deputies of Holland to this Assembly on the 6"" •Writ respecting a August last, in oppositlou to the Writ of Appeal which he had obtained on the Juiigmenl pronounred in New Nether- iQ"" of April, of the Current year, from their High Mightinesses against

Director Stuyvesant, holding on oath their High Mightinesses' Commission and Instruction ; that he respectfully thanked their High Mightinesses for having been willing, by their Resolution and letter of the 6"" of August, aforesaid, to give him communication thereof, in order that he might say what he thought of it, before any disposition be made thereon by their High Mightinesses; but inasmuch as relation is had, in the resolution of the Lords of Holland, dated the 4"" of August, aforesaid, to the opinion of the Advocates Palts and Stryen, whereupon the resolution is founded, and he requires to have a knowlege of the petition and reasons whereon the advocates have based their opinion, he Mr. Van der Capelle, doth, therefore, respectfully pray their High Mightinesses to be pleased to intercede with the Lords of Holland that the aforesaid opinion, with the Petition of Jan Claesz. van Heuckelom