[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] suddenly and unexpectedly dismissed by Director Stuyvesant, and again received back, according to his humor. Vice Director Lubbert van Dlncklage has in the presence and before the eyes of Director Stuyvesant been forcibly removed by soldiers from the Court vphere he sat as joint Judge, and was for several days confined in the military guard-house, after which he was not suffered to go unmolested, but finally deposed without your High Mightinesses' knowledge, though appointed and qualified by your High Mightinesses, whifst foreigners, such as Englishmen and Frenchmen, neither nominated nor known by your High Mightinesses, are, on the contrary, employed and continued. Your High Mightinesses have, also, by resolution of the 14 March, 1651, commanded Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven and Jan Claessen Daman not to depart for New Netherland before, nor until, they had furnished your Hon''''= Committee with information on some important points respecting the war, and had obtained your High Mightinesses' consent; but Jan Claessen Damen went off immediately after the receipt of the notification, not regarding it in the least.