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Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 147
shame, reproach and damage upon the honorable patroon, who is the oldest patriot of the country.
I say, one ought to unload and confiscate such ships as come here without commission and do
their trading and thereby bring New Netherland and its officers into disrepute, but not a patroon
who stakes so much on his colony and on New Netherland. Therefore, I say once more, I, Piter
Wyncoop, protest against you, the honorable Van der Hoykens, fiscal, and demand from the
honorable director and council of New Netherland satisfaction for the loss and violence
committed in unloading the ship ’t Wapen van Renselaerswyck. Done at Manhatans, this 18th of
March anno 1644.
The fiscal answers that he has followed his orders and instructions and has used no violence.
Willem de Key }
} both witnesses
Ysebrant Clasen }
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh[oven], secretary
Pieter Wyncoop
Cornelio van der Hoykens, fiscal
[103] The fiscal further declares and gives for answer to the unreasonable protest of you, Pieter
Wyncoop, that no injury or violence was committed against you, nor any affront was offered to
Mr. Van Renselaer, but, rather, that you were guilty of the most unreasonable conduct one could
ever imagine, to wit, that you refused to let the Company have fifty pairs of shoes, to be paid
for, at such a price as you yourself would demand, in silver, beaver, or sewant, notwithstanding
you were several times, in all friendliness, requested to do so by our director, as the safety of
this country depended upon it; for it appears that with a few shoes such a number of soldiers
were fitted out as have slain five hundred of our enemies. On the contrary, you would not even
come to discuss the matter, when messengers were sent to you and made use of such unseemly
language as your patroon himself would not care to utter. The reason became afterwards known
to us, namely, that you sell your goods to others of our poor inhabitants with horrible usury,
namely, at fourfold the cost and more, which you would not have dared to ask of the director and
is also contrary to your patroon’s orders. And whereas I was informed for a certainty that there
were many smuggled goods on board the ship, I have, pursuant to the orders of the honorable
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