This exclusion and the misfortunes that overtook Holland in 1672, caused the ruin of this pure and able Magistrate. He was arrested, accused of being in league with the enemy, stripped of all his offices and sentenced to perpetual banishment. On the 20th of August, 1672, and in the 47th year of his age, he was seized, with his brother Cornells, on leaving the prison to obey this sentence, and massacred by the populace of the Hague, after which the bodies of both were most grossly insulted. Moreri. -- Ei>.

» Supra, p. 546. ' Sujjra, p. 542. ' Supra, p. 541.

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560 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS of the 27"' July last; with a figurative IVIap of the situation of these Countries. And, howbeit we have clearly understood from the aforesaid Map and Memoir, the intentions of Mess" the Directors, regarding the pretended Limits; yet as regards the Title and right thereunto, we do not (with respect) find ourselves so well provided with the irrefragable reasons and arguments which are requisite in dealing with such a Nation as tiiis, and in such a matter, consisting entirely of facts ; the first occupation and possession as well as the purchase of the grounds and lands being merely in general presupposed, but nothing in the world has reached us in support either of the one or the other. Yet, according to the letter even of Director Stuyvesandt, the English there made this objection to him: That their High Mightinesses' subjects in those parts, had not any patent from them, nor any proof of purchase. Wherefore we have taken the trouble not only further to inform ourselves by those who may have fuller knowledge of this matter but to look up attentively the descriptions by the English themselves, in order to learn therefrom what we consider applicable to our purpose.