Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 286
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] they learned that the Petitioner's dismissal stuck here on reconsideration, and they became inclined to dispute with him — First. The Petitioner's commission and his constituents' legitimacy, which they at once wholly rejected; saying they were a lawless and mutinons rahble, whereof he, the Petitioner, was one of the most notorious ringleaders, representing himself as Delegate of the Commonalty, and their late president; that, therefore, they, the Directors, did not mean, but were even unwilling that he should depart; also, that the matter now rested no longer with them, but in the hands of the Lords Burgomasters of Amsterdam, without whose order and advice they were not doing anything; that the resolution to recall the Director, was the Petitioner's underhand work; and much more of a like nature, too voluminous to relate.