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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 207 (part 8)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Petrus Stuyvesant, the Director, treated the service of the Mandamus with very boisterous disrespect, tearing it in the presence of all the People, out of the officer's hands, so that your High Mightinesses' own seal fell off, and had the Mandamus not been written on parchment but only on paper, it would indeed have been lorn in pieces; all which will further appear by the return of the officer in the copy hereunto annexed, the original whereof is in Petitioner's possession.