[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Yet, while abroad, he received, in 1652, from the Uni-versity of Leyden, the honorary degree of " Juris utriusque doctor," or " Doctor of civil and canon law." And in the same year he secured the erection of bis Yonkers land into a manor, and its confirmation to him by that highest authority, the States-Oeneral. Hut he was still, for a time, not allowed to come home. He employed his forced leisure, however^ in writing part of a history of New Netherlaud, still extant. Y'et the most interesting part of the history he had meant to write, the part respecting the ad-ministration of the New Amsterdam government, tin-West India Company prevented him from writing, by refusing him access to its records. Then, also, he sought to send over colonists, but was not allowed to do so. And when, in 1653, he was about leaving for America, to a petition for leave to practice law in New Amsterdam, he received answer that he might do so only to the extent of giving asked advice. He came home in the summer of 1653, but went back to Holland in December. What time he last returned does not appear, but he died in New Amsterdam in 1655. We have not the light for judgment between him and Stuyvesant, but all testimony says he was one of the ablest men of the province. And his his-tory, his " Remonstrance " and his other papers, still preserved, throw much light upon his time. It is not probable that, in business and political transactions, he was without fault.