272                                BEOAD  ADVICE.
I. Henrick van Dyck ! Was he not ensign formerly in New Netherland, when Kieft was there ?
B. Yes, it is the same man who dragged the Indians from Hempstead.
I. But since then he has been fiscal. How has he attended to that office 7
B. That I will tell you shortly. It happened that Cor-nelis Eenckhoorn was very murderously cut in the belly by Skipper Jan Huygens, after some had escaped from him whom he intended to serve similarly. This murderer was imprisoned in the guard-house, and the same night was taken back by the fiscal, Van Dyck, to the house where the dead man was lying, and sat there drinking with the fiscal till the latter part of the night, when he made his escape by the chimney. Furthermore, Skipper Isaac Abrahamsz: being shot dead by Skipper Adrieen Blowmasrts, pilot of Stuy-vesant's galiot, he was brought by the fiscal on board of us, and remained till we were some days at sea. I knew nothing of it, and put him ashore at the Huys-duynen, to take care of himself. But it may be seen how strongly the disposition to murder haa increased in the fiscal under this director. Gerrit Slomp, son of a fishwoman of Amsterdam, was very murderously stabbed to death by Joannes Rodenburgh. The murderer was never molested in New Netherland, where the deed was committed, whose brother was one of the councilors there.
I.    How fared the other councilors ; were they not cited ?
B. The vice-director, Lubbertus van Dincklage, was summoned on the same day, and answered that he had been misled, because the various papers which were now produced were concealed from him at the time, and would otherwise have acquitted the condemned; furthermore, because Stuy-vesant, in giving the sentence, had first decided that these persons had written about public aflairs without being qualified by public authority.
Monsieur la Montaigne, councilor without commission from the Fatherland, a Frenchman, cited, made answer that Melyn should first give the reasons for citing him, and then he would answer.
Brian Nuton, captain and lieutenant, an Englishman, answered that he did not understand what it was, but would answer in the morning.
Faulus   Leandertsz, equipage-master, gave for answer