having among other things captured near the Island of Jamaica, after a bloody engagement, a Spanish ship which he carried into and sold with all its cargo at. New Netherland, according to the allegations of divers authentic affidavits; and Juan Gallardo Ferara, a native of St. Lucar de Barrameda, and pilot of said ship, was particularly interested in said prize, having lost, exclusive of many articles of considerable value, nine negroes, his own property, and thirty-six others, the property of Antonio de Rivera, who were under his care. Yet their Lordships' just resolution was of no avail, inasmuch as the said Pirate, having been released by the Magistrate of Amsterdam from the prison in which he had been confined for 4 or 5 months on his own sworn security, contrary to all form of law, notwithstanding the objections of his Majesty's Consul, resident at Amsterdam, without any punishment for the robberies and crimes he confessed he had committed, returned in the month of April to New Netherland, doubtless for the purpose of their continuing his piracies with his Lieutenant, or at least withdrawing himself from the chastisement he knew he merited so that the said Juan ;

Gallardo has not been able to obtain any other satisfaction than an act, copy whereof is annexed, from Sieur Grand Escoutette of the said city, who promises to have justice done him, when the Pirate will return thither. But having been notified, apparently, by his wife or friends of this promise, he will take very good care not to return to these Provinces, where said Gallardo has been, in vain, waiting several months for him at considerable expense, their Lordships are most earnestly entreated and required to be pleased to dispatch requisitory letters in favor of said Juan Gallardo, addressed to the Governor or Magistrate of the said New Netherland, to arrest said Captain Sebastian de RaefF(aIias Martin Bastiaenssen), with his Lieutenant Jan van Campen, on their arrival at the port of said country, where 'tis stated they ordinarily retire with their plunder; to seize their ships and effects for the satisfaction and indemnification of said Gallardo, and other his Majesty's subjects interested in their prizes, and afterwards to send both those Pirates prisoners to these Provinces for trial and exemplary punishment as disturbers of the public peace, with orders, in case the Pirates should not be found there, to cause to be restored without delay to said Juan Gallardo, (as law and justice dictate, leaving to the purchasers their recourse against those Pirates,) his nine Negroes, and all the others he will recognize there belonging to the said prize, especially the thirty-six the property of Antonio de Rivera, devolved to his Majesty in consequence of Rivera dying intestate, having been killed with several others in the attack on said Spanish ship; and to