Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 341 (part 4)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Yet their Lordships' just resolution was of no avail, inasmuch as the said Pirate, having been released by the Magistrate of Amsterdam from the prison in which he had been confined for 4 or 5 months on his own sworn security, contrary to all form of law, notwithstanding the objections of his Majesty's Consul, resident at Amsterdam, without any punishment for the robberies and crimes he confessed he had committed, returned in the month of April to New Netherland, doubtless for the purpose of their continuing his piracies with his Lieutenant, or at least withdrawing himself from the chastisement he knew he merited; so that the said Juan Gallardo has not been able to obtain any other satisfaction than an act, copy whereof is annexed, from Sieur Grand Escoutette of the said city, who promises to have justice done him, when the Pirate will return thither.