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ministration did not allow him to come on shore, but sent him 
back again to Batavia, at which their Honours were so greatly 
offended, that they summoned the Governor, Heer VAN 
SUCHTELEN (the Secunde ), Captain TREKMEYER and RYKLOF 
JUSTUS COSTERUS; when sued at law by Heer VAN KERVEL in 
1712 both Heer S1x and Heer VAN SUCHTELEN were not only 
dismissed from their office, but Heer SIX was fined in rix- 
dollars 400 and Heer VAN SUCHTELEN in rix dollars 300 where- 
as the two others.were acquitted. 
On 21st May, 1711, per the Venhuzzen, Heer WILLEM 
MOERMAN, arrivedhere, who, in compliance with their Honours’ 
special order, was introduced by Heer SIX as the 17th Gov- 
ernor of this place on the day of his arrival, whilst Heer S1x 
sailed from here to Batavia per the same vessel on 16th July 
next. 
liiceaestranee tact, that the said Heer Six and VAN 
SUCHTELEN, although fined and ordered to pay all costs, short- 
ly after having receivedthe above-mentioned punishment, were 
completely rehabilitated by their Honours and admitted not 
only anew in the service of the Company, but declared also 
re-eligible for their former offices, a fact susceptible of several 
interpretations when it is remembered how long these men had 
openly made light of their Honours’ authority. 
Heer MOERMAN, too, who arrived here with several other 
members of the board of administration, could not agree with 
Heer VAN KERVEL, who arrived in the same vessel with him; 
he ( VAN KERVEL ) remained here till the end of 1711, returned 
then to Batavia and was by order of the “ seventeen gentle- 
men ”’sent up to Patria in 1712. : 
Heer MOERMAN had the administration of this Government 
till 11th May, 1717, almost 6 years, at which date he died here. 
That year he was succeeded by Heer HERMAN VAN SuUG- 
TELEN as the 18th Governor of Malacca, who is there still at 
present, viz., 1725. 
The above then is an account of the most principal worldly 
matters of Malacca ; before passing to the ecclesiastical matters 
we will attach first a list of the Malay Kings and those of Johor. 
But first I must add to this a few words, viz., that the reader 
