[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We are informed and therefore say, that the petitioners will not prove that the late Director, Willem Kieft, hath called in more than one patent; and he subjoined with his own hand, that he reserved the valley, not for the Company, but for the town of Breuckelen in general. The reason of this revocation was, because Jan Eversen Bout, one of the petitioners, who occupies part of the valley, together with others besides him who undertook to found or improve the town of Breukelen at their own expense, submitted to the Director how prejudicial 'twould be to the town that one man named Tonis Nyssen should have the exclusive possession of so extensive a valley, directly contrary to the Freedoms. The Director had signed the patent on the report of Hudde, the Surveyor, without specifying therein the number of morgens. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 341 And after information had been received from said Jan Eversen (one of the petitioners) and others, the Director allowed Tonis Nyssen agreeably to the Freedoms, as much of said valley as he should have need of in proportion to his plantation. 24. The Director being president, gives permission to speak; but it must be shown that he, sitting in court, pleaded any one's case as an advocate. 25. This point demands proof. 26.