[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ''"''^ hereafter endeavor to knock me over also, but I shall now manage it so that they will have their bellies full in all time to come." And how it was managed the result of the suit can testify, for they must pay fines and were cruelly banished, and in order that nothing should be wanting, when Cornelis Molyn pleaded for '■''-^il ■' grace until intelligence of the result of his appeal in Fatherland should be ■■"' received, he was threatened, as Molyn who is a living man hath himself declared, in these or similar words: — "Had I known, Molyn, that you would have divulged our sentence, or brought it before their High Mightinesses, I should have had Molyn tiireatened to you hanged forthwith OH the highest tree in New Netherland." Now as this occurred before two pairs of eyes, it can be denied; it may not be true, but what is remarkable, it is so confirmed by similar cases as not to admit of a doubt; for it once came to pass in the Minister's house, after their departure, when the Consistory had met there and was risen, that one Arnoldus van Herdenberch related the proceedings relative to Seger Theunisse, and how he had appealed as curator, from the judgment, whereupon the Director, who had sat there as an stuyvesant declared Elder, took up the word and answered: "People may think of appealing during that he wouid'put my time — should any one do so, I would have him made a foot shorter, pack the the man to death J J ^ r