[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] of the Eight men, who were assembled as a Board, and to say — When he had doffed the coat with which his Lords and Masters had cloathed him, he will then certainly have him: witness his own confession dated IG"" July last, when he said, in Our court, that he gave some explanations to this effect: That this could happen only when Mynheer had taken off the coat his Lords and Masters had put on him; and the abovenamed Jochem Pietersen, in company with one Cornelis Melyn, drew up, prepared and wrote a false and libelous letter, dated 27 October, 1G44, which he signed with Melyn and sent over in the name of the Eight chosen men, to the Hon'"''' Directors of the General Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, wherein they clandestinely and most scandalously accuse, injure, criminate and charge the late Director Kieft, then their lawful Governor and Chief, with divers criminal misdeeds as is and can still be more fully seen and read in the original and authentic copy thereof.