[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Sentence pronounced hj Director Stuyvesant on Cornelius Melyn, Whereas Cornells Melyn, born at Antwerp, aged about five and forty years, inhabitant and burgher of the city of New Amsterdam, in New Netherland, hath dared, on the 2'^ May, 1645, and did (according to the sworn affidavit thereof being) set himself in opposition and contravention to justice, threatening the Honorable Director Kieft, at the time his lawful Governor and superior, with the gallows and the wheel; or, as the delinquent, according to his confession, without torture, perverted the words to the Fiscal and other officers ordered to execute the judgment, and said — Let those who have given you orders, look to it, that they do not reach the gallows and the wheel — and hath further resisted justice and the order of the Hon'''' Director Kieft aforesaid, so that the Fiscal was obliged to enter a protest of contumacy and opposition against him, Melyn, according to divers other affidavits taken and sworn to at the time he, Melyn, was convicted of slandering justice and the law here, saying — Here be no justice; he was not a subject of the Hon'''' Director; the Hon'''' Director may occupy himself with the Company's servants — he is a headstrong fool {een duyvcls kop), with many other mutinous and seditious words uttered against this one and that, as well soldiers as freemen, advising the Company's servants to leave its service, as they could receive neither money nor pay; that the Director, like the biggest liar in the country, gave fair words and plenty of promises, which bore no fruit, &c.; in order to instigate the freemen not to pay anything, as is apparent to us by divers collected affidavits and credible testimonies, with name and surname, duly read in his presence; also, that he, by his servants, endeavored, even before, or in the beginning of the war, to purloin either secretly or forcibly, the maize belonging to the Indians of Long Island at that time not yet at war with our nation, for which