They therefore wrote to him, stating that the requirement was in violation of their charter, and requesting him "not to be in too much haste to commence his voyage, but to delay it until the receipt of further orders." It so happened, however, that then the States-General were just on the eve of hostilities with England.

It was a matter of the first importance that New Netherland should be under the rule of a governor of military experience, courage and energy.

No man could excel Stuyvesant in these qualities.

Yielding to the force of circumstances, the States-General revoked their recall.

Thus narrowly Stuyvesant escaped the threatened humiliation.
The English government was angry with Holland for refusing to expel the royalist refugees, who, after the execution of Charles I., had taken refuge in Holland.