Document: Order referring to the court of New Amsterdam an action of Petrus Stuyvesant vs. Janneke Heermans for slander

Director general Petrus Stuyvesant, plaintiff, against Janneken Heermans, prisoner; the lord plaintiff demands proof of the words directed against him by her today in the fort, namely, that the lord general was not guiltless of the spilling of innocent blood.

The prisoner answered that she assumed that the lord general was not guiltless thereof because the lord general could have given other orders and the protection of soldiers, and that they and theirs had experienced the bitter aftertaste thereof.

Because the lord general has been offended and the lord fiscal Sille is an adversary of the prisoner by virtue of his office and the honorable La Montagne sits as the lone judge, it has been resolved that the lord general shall have the prisoner summoned before the civil court of this city in order to offer proof of her offensive words. Dated as above.