[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] and Freedoms, drawn up A" 1628; revised, enlarged and accepted by the Patroons in 1629; who, A° 1630, were congratulated thereupon; A° 1631, ex superabundanti confirmed, are secretly undermined on the 30"" October, 1631, when new articles were proposed, thereby the previous Freedoms and Exemptions were no longer obtainable; the Patroons particularly commanded to perform things which experience taught them were impracticable: Yea, all the Exemptions were drawn into dispute. 2S May, 1632. Some of the principal stockholders suggested to them to bring in gravamina against the amended freedoms. 1 June, 1632, is drawn up and enacted a certain placard, purporting, as it appears, to be in favor of the Patroons, against private individuals carrying on the prohibited trade in peltries in New Netherland; according to the copy hereunto annexed. But, converted, through evil council, by resolution of the IS'*" November, 1632, to the injury and prejudice of the Patroons, whereby the Exemptions and Freedoms, so solemnly enacted on the ?"■ June, 1629, on which the patroonships were registered, are, it is particularly to be remarked, disavowed. And, in order to deprive the Patroons altogether of the trade, the Director in New Netherland was ordered to appoint commissaries and assistants in all the patroonships, to affix the placard and in no wise to suffer any of the Patroons to interfere in the fur trade.