[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Stuyvesant hath never pleaded any causes in court, but spoke and proposed questions to parties, as president, and, with advice of the Council, administered justice whereof the malevolent complain; but that Stuyvesant withheld justice from any one remains to be proved. As to what appertains to the Deputy director, Dinclagen, let him plead his own case. It can be established that Brian Nuton not only understands, but speaks the Dutch language, so that their accusation, that Nuton does not understand Dutch, is a falsehood. All the other slanders and calumnies uttered against the rest of the officers, ought to be proved. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 427 'Tis true that it was said in New Netherland, in the course of conversation, that no appeal lay from a New Netherland judgment, pronounced on the Island Manhatans; this was founded on the Exemptions where that Island is established as the Supreme Court of all the circumjacent Colonies, and on the fact that no precedent existed of their High Mightinesses' having ever received those in appeal who, coming from New Netherland, had applied for that purpose here — viz'. Hendrick Jansen the tailor, Laurens Cornelissen and several others, who were banished many years ago from New Netherland.