Whereas Adriaen Jansen van Leyden, innkeeper, as he declares, in the colony of Renselaerswijck in New Netherland, presently prisoner, has spared no contempt of the director general and councilors of New Netherland, in opposing their well-intentioned orders and placards, promoting the general revenues of this country, by unwillingness to subject himself to the mandated impost placed on the consumption of wine and beer to be consumed at the tappers as well as the measurement of the farmer; about which, Adriaen Jansen van Leyden, prisoner, on the complaints of the farmer first made to the commissioners of the farm, then by them referred to the director general and councilors, was arrested by the fiscal, as protector of the law; upon being cited and summoned to appear before the director general and councilors remained in contempt upon the first, second and third summons, whereupon a more direct summons followed and he was informed of it by their commies Johan de Deckere, he disobeyed the summons contemptuously with strong disrespect of the authority of the director general and councilors, and above all, at his house, in the presence of various persons said very reprehensively, “there is our lord,” pointing to a certain Jan Baptista van Renselaer, “he shall answer for us,” all of which are matters of grave consequences, tending first and foremost to the reduction of the country’s most requisite and necessary revenues, such as those during the time of his opposition these were noticeably damaged and reduced; and, in addition, such opposition and refusal has led to infringement of and damage to the well-intended orders and placards of the director general and councilors, and which is even worse, tending to give inducements and bad examples for sedition and mutiny to others. Whereupon, the indictment of the fiscal taken against the aforesaid Adriaen Jansz and his defense having been heard, and having examined everything that might be of material interest, especially the admissions of the prisoner, admitting without pain and iron bands, everything which the fiscal has charged him with as protector of the law, pleading only that he wasn’t the cause of it but rather a certain Jan Baptista van Renselaer, who had mislead him and forbade the payment of the wine and beer excise, the measurement of the farmer, and obeying the orders and summons of the director general and councilors, which fabricated misleading and forbidding by another subject of this province, the prisoner neither can nor ought to justify. The director general and councilors of New Netherland find the committed acts of very bad consequences which in lands of justice as an example to others in these far remote places, cannot nor ought to go unpunished. Therefore, seeking justice in the name of their high and mighty lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, in addition to the lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, lords and patroons of this New Netherland province, have condemned and sentenced the aforesaid Adriaen Jansz van Leyden, as they hereby do condemn him, first and foremost to pay the farmer fully as a judgment of [ impartiality and furthermore for such disobedience and contempt ] expressed against the director general and councilors of New Netherland to be banished from this province for a period of two years or otherwise fined eight hundred guilders, and to settle with the plaintiff for court costs and his service, remaining in his previous detention until payment of the fine is completed.
