[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Vol I. 338 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Answer of the West India Company to the Remonstrance from JVeio Netherland. t From the Original in Che Royal Archives at the Hague; Loketkaa of the States General; Rubric West IndUche Compagnie No. 30; 7lh division of the Bundle.] Answer to the Remonstrance delivered by the Delegates from New Netherland, on the 27"" January, 1650, to the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. It appeareth strange to the Directors (of the \V. I. Company,) that the Remonstrants commence their introduction with calumnies against the Board, their Patroons, complaining of excesses and highly injurious neglect, which, if any existed, ought to have been represented in season to the said Patroons, by them in virtue of their commission dated 27 July, 1649, communicated for the first time, on the 9'" of December last, full eight or nine weeks subsequent to their arrival; and that they addressed themselves to the Lords of the Supreme government without having ever spoken or made any application on the subject of their commission, to the Directors, notwithstanding the latter were requested by their general letters to lend them assistance. And though under correction, the Directors are of opinion that, by virtue of the