CHAP. 111. SIR mitNKUrs Y KIIM C VI )KN. 4o 



held on ilic subject before tlir Karls otThnv mid New- 

 castle, and Sir Gervase Clifton. Vermuyden was heard 

 in defence, and a decision was given in his favour ; but 

 lie seems to have acted with precipitancy in taking 

 out subpoenas against many of the old inhabitants for 

 damage said to have been done to him and his agents. 

 Several persons were apprehended and confined in York 

 gaol, and the feeling of bitterness between the native 

 population and the Dutch settlers grew more intense 

 from day to day. Lord Went worth, President of the 

 North, at length interfered ; and after surveying the 

 lands, he ordered that all suits should cease, and the 

 restoration of the old rights of common, which had in 

 some cases been interfered with. Yerrnuyden was also 

 directed to assign to the tenants certain tracts of moor 

 and marsh ground, to be enjoyed by them in common. 

 He attempted to evade the decision, holding it to be 

 unjust ; but the Lord President was too powerful for 

 him, and he therefore felt that, as opposition was of no 

 use, it was better that he should altogether withdraw 

 from the undertaking, which he did ; first conveying 

 his lands to trustees, and afterwards disposing of his 

 interest in them. 1 



The necessary steps were then taken to relieve the 

 old lands which had been flooded, by the cutting of the 

 Dutch River at a heavy expense. Great difficulty was 

 experienced in raising the requisite funds; the Dutch 

 capitalists now holding their hand, or transferring their 



1 The Dutch settlers lived for the 

 most part in single houses, dispersed 

 through the newly-recovered country . 



A house built by Vermuyden remains. 

 It \vas chiefly of timber, and what is 

 culled s(in/-lxniit'/. It was built round 

 a quadrangular court. The eastern 

 front was the dwelling-house. The 



afterwards became the property of the 

 Boynton family. Sir Philibert Ver- 

 natti and the two De Witts ereeud 

 theirs near the Idle. A chapel for 

 the settlers was also erected at Sand- 

 toft, in which the various ordinances 

 of religion were performed; and the 

 public service was read alternately in 



other three sides were stables and the Dutch and French languages. 



barns. Another good house was The Rev. Joseph Hunter's * History 



built by Mathew Valkenburgh, on | and Topography of the Deanery of 



the Middle Ing, near the D.nj which Doncaster,' 1828, vol. i. 165-fi. 



