, the mediators were bound to assist the Dutch
in punishing them. No spirituous liquors were to be _drank_ near the
houses of the Dutch. No _armed_ Indians to approach a Dutch
plantation. Murderers were to be mutually surrendered, and damages
reciprocally paid for.

Thus were the Esopus Indians driven from their homes, deprived of
their independence and virtually ruined. Having thus triumphantly
though cruelly settled this difficulty, Stuyvesant went up to fort
Orange, where he held another grand council with the chiefs of all the
tribes in those regions.

A clergyman was sent to Esopus and a church organized of sixteen
members. In September, 1660, Domine Selyus was installed as the
clergyman of Brooklyn, where he found one elder, two deacons and
twenty-four church members. There were, at that time thirty-one
families in Brooklyn, containing a population of one hundred and
thirty-four persons. They had no church but worshipped in a barn.
Governor Stuyvesant contributed nearly eighty dollars annually to the
support of this minister, but upon condition that he should preach
every Sunday afternoon, at his farm or bouwery upon Manhattan Island.

The last of May, Charles the Second, the fugitive King of England, was
returning from his wanderings on the continent to ascend the throne of
his ancestors. He was a weak man, of imperturbable good nature. On his
way to London he stopped at the Hague, where he was magnificently
entertained. In taking leave of the States-General he was lavish of
his expressions of friendship. He declared that he should feel jealous
should the Dutch prefer the friendship of any other state to that of
Great Britain.

At that time Holland was in commercial enterprise, the most prosperous
nation upon the globe; decidedly in advance of England. The British
parliament envied Holland her commercial supremacy. "The Convention
Parliament," writes Mr. Brodhead,

"which had called home the king, took early steps to render
still more obnoxious one of England's most selfish measures.
The Navigation Act of 1651 was revised; and it was now
enacted that after the first day of December, 1660, no
merchandise should be imported into, or exported from any of
his majesty's plantations or territories in Asia, Africa or
America, except in English vessels of which the master and
three-fourths of the mariners at least are English."

Immediately after this, Lord Baltimore demand