[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] remain here only three years and other boasts induced some to think that he would not act the father. The word Myn Heer Generael and such like titles, were taTed P'^""'"^' never known here before. He was busy almost every day issuing proclamations of various sorts, most of which were never observed and have long since died, ^''Inst '"^"".jochem ^^® w'xQe excise excepted, for that was a source of profit. The proceedings against hi|^ircensurabi'e.° the Eight men, particularly against Jochura Pieters Cuytter and Cornelis Molyn occurred also in the beginning, and the Director manifested so much partiality therein, that he afforded many an opportunity of judging of his character and its nature, but little to his advantage; for every one clearly saw and remarked that Director Kieft had more favor and aid and counsel in his suit than his adversary, and that one Director was the advocate of the other, as Director Stuyvesant's siuvvesant exhibits own words imported and signified when he said : " These Boorish brutes would harsliness, anil ^ ° ibe''fermer's.