[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Pieterss Cuyter and Cornelis Molyn, openly declared at various times and on stuyvesant con-many occaslous, both in presence of Inhabitants and strangers, that " Even tho' th"°nigh °MTghi'y they return and bring a States' order they would be no better off than they were; I should immediately send them back, unless their High Mightinesses summon me." His Honor has always maintained that no appeal lay, or could lie from this country, and that he was sufficiently able to prove it. And when some would not believe it, especially in cases against the Company or its chief officers, a great many extracts from divers authorities were quoted, not much to the point HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV. 311 however. In the beginning, also, when Director Kieft was still here, the English Clergyman requested permission to depart to the Islands or to Netherland, as he had lived and labored a long while without proper maintenance, and as his land was now confiscated; but he always received an unfavorable answer and was threatened with this and that. Finally, it came to pass that he may depart on ^J,lT"hJ^' the condition of promising under his hand that, wherever he should go, he would not u,af'ho ahww'not mention, nor complain of the manner he was treated here in New Netherland by \rLiKi7 Director Kieft or Stuyvesant. This the man himself declares. Mr. Dinklagen and Commander Looper, who were then members of the Council, also vouch for its truth.