[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] I From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; Loketkai of the States General; Division, Wesi Indudie (bmpagnU, No. 36.] Memorial for the Lord van Seraertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of New Netherland. As the ships lie ready to sail in Texel and the Petitioner hath embarked all his goods and also divers people therein, he most humbly requests an open dismissal with the clause de non offendendo, and that the Director and whosoever it might further concern, may allow the Petitioner again to hold peaceably the office of President of the Commonalty in New Amsterdam, which the Petitioner was filling at the date of his departure, as he is not able, otherwise, to leave without direct contravention of your High Mightinesses' resolution of the 14"' of March of this year, and he offers, should your High Mightinesses think proper, to appear again in person at the Hague next winter. Vol. I. 60 474 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.