[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] over the inhabitants still there, tanquani bellicas, but more stringent, according to the lust and appetite of the rulers, as has already unreasonably happened. In order not to deprive the inhabitants there wholly of heart, and to afford the abovemenlioned Tienhoven [an opportunity to defend himself,] as well as [to furnish] your Mightinesses particular information and knowledge of the truth of the inhuman transaction there, your Mightinesses might hear the aforesaid Tienhoven, and cause him to answer the annexed interrogatories. If the said Tienhoven will truly answer these questions, the axiom quod in cotifilente nulla restant alio paries judicis quam in condemnando, must be put in force against him. If, on the contrary, he should obstinately and shamelessly deny the truth thereof, or otherwise render it obscure by amphibological, double-meaning or indirect answers, I, through the humble duty I owe their High Mightinesses and the love I feel for the preservation and prosperity of the present people of New Netherland, am always ready to furnish your Mightinesses, or whomsoever their High Mightinesses shall be pleased to empower, ad causam Jisci ogendam, with such documents and information as shall fully convict the abovementioned Tienhoven of notorious falsehoods in his denial.