. History of the city of New York . full measure ofhis contempt. Just as tlie British force, numbering nine himdred foot and a troop of horse, were victualed and about setting out for New Amsterdam, peace was proclaimed between England and Holland.^ Cromwell had July 12. ^ ... stipulated his own terms with the United Provinces ; but hisforeign policy was bold and manly, and, if he had robbed England of herliberty, he at least gave her glory in exchange. The nation which forhalf a century had been of scarcely more w-eight than Venice in European politics, suddenly became the most formidable pow
. History of the city of New York . full measure ofhis contempt. Just as tlie British force, numbering nine himdred foot and a troop of horse, were victualed and about setting out for New Amsterdam, peace was proclaimed between England and Holland.^ Cromwell had July 12. ^ ... stipulated his own terms with the United Provinces ; but hisforeign policy was bold and manly, and, if he had robbed England of herliberty, he at least gave her glory in exchange. The nation which forhalf a century had been of scarcely more w-eight than Venice in European politics, suddenly became the most formidable power in the world, ^ and her ruler an object of mingled aversion, admiration, and dread. Nowhere was the news received with such abandonment of delight as in New Amsterdam. Bells rung and cannon boomed, and a day was set apart by the governoi for general thanksgiving. 1 Three hundred of these troops were from , two hundred from Connecticut,one hundred .and tliirty-three from New Haven, and two hundred from tlie I Kill CHAPTER XI. City Taxation. —The Swedes. —The Long Island Feury. — Thomas Pell. —LadyMoodys Librauy. — The Gay Reiast.— Fikst City Seal.— Chkistmas. — NewYears. —The City Hall. — The First Church on Long Island. — Dominie — The Expedition against the Swedes. —The Indian Horror. — Van Tien-hovens Downfall.—The Lutheran Persecution. — City Progress.—Dominie DrISIUS. — HURGHER LAWS. — ThE QuAKER PERSECUTION.— Hodgson at the Wheelbarrow.—Stuyvesants Interview with the IndianChiefs. — Whitehall. — Stuyvesants Country-Seat. — Indian Hostilities. —Oliver Cromwells Death. THE burgomasters and schepens, even before their first year of servicebad expired, found their duties so arduous, and involving so muchtime and trouble, that they petitioned for salaries. Stuyvesant, ^^^^after mature deliberation, granted to each burgomaster one hundredand forty
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