Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 215
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On the sixteenth of March, did I, the undersigned, accompanied by Adriaen van der Danck and Jacob van Couwenhoven, at the request of Cornelis Melyn, and in virtue of certain Mandamus granted him by their High Mightinesses, summon the Fiscal, Hendrick van Dyck, to appear, by the first opportunity, before their High Mightinesses, at the Hague, and there to hear such demand and conclusion as Cornelis Melyn shall make or institute against him, and left copy of aforesaid.\Lindamus for tiie behoof of the defendant. Whereunto he wrote to me as follows — Henrick van Dyck, Fiscal of New JVetherland, in answer to the Mandamus, served on him by me, at the request of Cornelis Melyn, says, that he is not a purty in the suit. Thus given, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, dated as above. Anno 1649, at the Manhattans, in New Netherland. (Signed) Aknoldus van Hardenbergh. Adrian van der Donk. Jacob van Kouwenhoven. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 357 (Endorsed)