[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [From the BegUter of TJUgegant Brieven of the States 0eneral, in the Royal Archives at the Hague.] To the Director in New Netherland, 28"" April, 1648, and mutatis mutandis to the government in New Netherland. The States General, &c. Folio 88. Honorable, &c. We have this day heard and considered the report of Mess" our Deputies, who, pursuant to our previous resolutions of the xi January last, and of the 9"" instant, have investigated and examined the several petitions presented unto us, in the name and on the Cuyter and Melyn. behalf of Jochum Pieters Cuyter and Cornelis Melyn; also the papers thereunto annexed; and after previous deliberation have, consequently, granted the petitioners provision of appeal, with the clause suspending the respective sentences pronounced against them, on the 24 July, of the year 1647, with the advice of his Council, by Peter Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, within the limits of the West India Company; and We have, moreover, granted to and allowed the petitioners liberty, pending the case in appeal, to return hence to New Netherland aforesaid, and free and unmolested to enjoy and use their property there, the same as other Colonists and inhabitants; of all which We have resolved hereby to advise Vol. T. 32 250 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.