[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The Select men, their constituents, were, however, afterwards on a sudden, very unhandsomely dissolved by the Director, contrary to your High Mightinesses' order of the ll"" of April and contrary to their own right and privilege of nomination, after they had, on foreseeing the occurrence from afar, by complaint and letter made known and forewarned your High Mightinesses of what was to happen, according to the Director's expressed words and threats. And as the Petitioner's own affairs in New Netherland are going fast to ruin, and the common Redress is here by divers means kept back, the Petitioner repeatedly besought your High Mightinesses, most humbly, to dismiss him, principally in his petition of the tenth of March, and now lately, he proposing from day to day to depart, by your High Mightinesses' consent, with his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, maids, and in that design had packed and shipped all his implements and goods. Whereupon the Petitioner proceeded to Amsterdam to arrange his other affairs at that place; but he understood here, before he left, that the Hon"' Directors of Amsterdam had forbidden all the skippers to-receive him, the Petitioner, or his, even though exhibiting your High Mightinesses' express orders and consent. All which came, at the last moment, most strangely and unexpectedly on the Petitioner, as he was not aware that he had given any cause therefor.