[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HotondDocumenta, rpj^j^ Rgmonstrance was drawn up and written in English, by the Deputies from the English villages under the jurisdiction of the High and Mighty Lords States General and Incorporated West India Company and the Burgomasters and Schepens of this City of New Amsterdam, who, with Deputies from the Dutch villages, were, with the knowledge and cognizance of the Director General, invited to advise on the writing of a letter to the Lords Majors on the state of the country; and as the Burgomasters and Schepens have examined that Remonstrance together, and could find nothing in it prejudicial to the country and its inhabitants, nor to the abridgment of the power and authority of the said High Lords States, or of the West India Company abovementioned, they and the other their co-delegates thought proper to present the same, translated from English into Low Dutch, to the Difector General and Council, as they have done on the ll"" Dec" 1653, in the hope and expectation of receiving an answer on the points contained therein; but in vain. On the aforesaid day the Director General and Council first charged that the Remonstrance was obscure and badly translated; next declared the aforesaid Assembly illegal, and protested against it; also rejected the same on account of this title: Address to the Director and Council; lastly, charged and commanded the Burgomasters and Schepens aforesaid with the respective Deputies to