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ability thereto, appointed to the post of corporal of the 

 Adelborsts, with a salary of 18 guilders per month, 

 the increase being held to have begun on the 10th of this 

 current month of August. 



Jan Lits (Litch, Lidge ?), of Cantelberch (Canterbury), 

 having arrived here in 1639 in the yacht " Lis " as an Adelborst, 

 on a salary of 10 guilders per month, having for two months 

 past rendered very good services to this garrison in making 

 matches 1 and other ropework [ ], still further to 



encourage him, his salary has at his request been raised to 

 12 guilders per month, the increase being held to have begun 

 on the 12th of June last. 



Victor van Dyck, of Middelburch, having arrived in India 

 in 1640 in the frigate " De Liefde " as a Bosschieter 2 on a salary 

 of 11 guilders per month, having since the 24th of January 

 last, to the complete satisfaction of the skipper, performed the 

 duties of an assistant butler 3 on board the said frigate, is, by 

 these presents, at his request, and considering his ability, 

 confirmed in the said office, his salary being fixed at 40 

 guilders per month, from the day [on which he began 

 to do the said duties] mentioned above. 



Jacob [ ], of Vlissengen (Flushing), having 



arrived in this country in 1639 in the yacht " Heemsherck " 

 as a musketeer on a salary of 12 guilders per month, having 

 since the 20th of May last filled the office of quartermaster 

 in the frigate " De Liefde " to the entire satisfaction of his 

 superior officers, is therefore at his request, and considering 

 his ability, by these presents, confirmed in the said office, his 

 salary being fixed at 40 guilders per month, from the time 

 when he entered on the said office. 



Actum in the town of Galle, datum ut supra. Jan Thysen, 

 Marten Vinck, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van der Laen, Lambert 

 Camholt. 



1 Hand, spinnen in original manuscript = hand spinning. 



2 BusschUter, rifleman. 3 The post oiBottelier, or steward, to 

 judge from the salary attached to it (40 guilders), was one of some rank. 



