[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [ From the Register of Resolutions of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ] Saturday, 29"" August, 1620. Folio 263. Rgad the petition of the Joint Owners of the Ship named the Glad Tidings (de The owners of the '^ ^ ° ' di"n'''s """ *''"'' ^" ^h^^ bootsckapj whereof Cornells Jacobsen Mey of Hoorn is commander, who New found Country, having discovered some new Countries populous and fertile, abounding in all sorts of Timber and never discovered before, pray that their High Mightinesses maj' be pleased to hear HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: I. 25 the Report of the Skipper who made the voyage, and allow the petitioners the benefit of their High Mightinesses' Charter, dated 27th March XVI"" xiv, and to declare, moreover, within what time they shall have to perform the four voyages therein mentioned. Item, another petition of Henrick Eeikens, Adriaen Janssen cum suis, Merchants at Chartered to New Amsterdam, having had a charter to trade exclusively to New Netherland, Netheriand.