be able to do service to the Netherland nation, to repay richly
the cost, and to thank its benefactors.

High Mighty Lords! We have had the boldness to write
this remonstrance, and to represent matters as we have done
from love of the truth, and because we felt ourselves obliged to
do so by our oath and conscience. It is true that we have not
all of us at one time or together seen, heard and met with every
detail of its entire contents. Nevertheless there is nothing in
it but what is well known by some of us to be true and cer-
tain;--the most is known by all of us to be true. We hope
Their High Mightinesses will pardon our presumption and
be charitable with our plainness of style, composition and
method. In conclusion we commit Their High Mightinesses,
their persons, deliberations and measures and their people, at
home and abroad, together with all the friends of New Nether-
land, to the merciful guidance and protection of the Most High,
whom we supplicate for Their High Mightinesses' present and
eternal welfare. Amen.

Done this 28th of July in New Netherland, subscribed,
"ADRIAEN VANDER DONCK, AUGUSTIJN HERMANSZ, ARNOLDUS
VAN HARDENBERGH, JACOB VAN COUWENHOVEN, OLOFF
STEVENSZ" (by whose name was written "Under protest--
obliged to sign about the government of the Heer Kieft"),
"MICHIEL JANSZ, THOMAS HAL, ELBERT ELBERTSZ, GOVERT
LOKERMANS, HENDRICK HENDRICKSZ KIP and JAN EVERTS-
BOUT." Below was written, "After collation with the original
remonstrance, dated and subscribed as above, with which
these are found to correspond, at the Hague, the 13th October,
1649, by me;" and was subscribed,

" D. V. SCHELLUYNEN, Notary Public."

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