Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 271
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Whilst your Honors' disrespect caused both the stamped and other guns to be sold to the Indians, who were seen running all over the Manhattans with some of them. Wherefore will you with too fluent a pen, multitudinous false accusations, and divers highly embellished fruitless writings, after the ancient custom of the Director away elsewhere, oblige me, as it were, to demonstrate to you the monopoly and imposition which the Director and some of the Board in Amsterdam, and not the Board in general as you by perversion falsely accused me of saying, have so long carried on, to the prejudice of the Hon'''' Company's charter and contrary to your oath and bounden duty. Some instances thereof I shall lay before you, as it appears I must refresh your Honors' memory with the truth.