Still he succeeded in sentencing Melyn to seven years' banishment, to a fine of three hundred guilders, and to forfeit all benefits derived from the Company.

Kuyter was sentenced to three years' banishment and to a fine of one hundred and fifty guilders.

They were also denied the right of appeal to the fatherland.
"If I were persuaded," said the Governor, "that you would divulge our sentence, or bring it before their High Mightinesses, I would have you hanged at once, on the highest tree in New Netherland." Again he said, with characteristic energy, "If any one, during my administration, shall appeal, I will make him a foot shorter, and send the pieces to Holland and let him appeal in that way."[7] Melyn and Kuyter being sent to Holland as criminals, did appeal to the home government; their harsh sentence was suspended; they were restored to all the rights of colonists of New Netherland, and Stuyvesant was cited to defend his sentence at the Hague.

When Melyn returned to Manhattan with these authoritative papers, a great tumult was excited.

Anxious that his triumph should be as public as his disgrace had been, he demanded that the Acts should be read to the people assembled in the church.