[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Jacques van Horn. Exhibited, 22. June, 1634. Reply of the Patroons to the West India Company. [ From the Original In the Royal Archives at the Hagne; Lokefk,aa of the States General, Division, West Indiachs Compagivie; Loket K., Letter L., No. 6, part 5 of the Bundle. ] High and Mighty Lords. The Patroons of the Colonies in New Netherland having seen the writing delivered on behalf of the Directors of the West India Company, in opposition to the demand and claim of Vol. I. 12 90 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. the said Patroons, communicated in writing to your High Migiitinesses, they say in reply to it : As the foundation of the suit which they may institute, in proper time, against the above named Directors, for indemnification of such damages and losses as they respectively shall happen to have suffered, because the aforesaid Directors have not allowed, nor suffered, them to realize the full effect of the granted Exemptions and Freedoms, mainly depends upon the force and tenor of said Exemptions and Freedoms; and your High Mightinesses would