Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 284 (part 5)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] van Aersbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies, praying, substantially, that as the ships lie ready to sail in Te.xel and he, tlie Petitioner hath embarked therein all his goods and also divers people, he may be granted an open dismissal with the clause dc non offcndcndo, and that the Director and those whom it may further concern, be ordered to allow the Petitioner peaceably to hold the office of President of the Commonalty of New Amsterdam, which the Petitioner was filling when he took his departure; the Petitioner not being able, otherwise, to leave without directly contravening their High Mightinesses' resolution of the li"" of March; further offering, should their High Mightinesses think proper, to appear again in person here at the Hague next winter.