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of 10 guilders per month, having for seven months past done 

 corporal's duty to the full satisfaction of his officers, is 

 therefore, by these presents at his request and on account of 

 his ability, confirmed in the said office, his salary being fixed 

 at 14 guilders per month, the increase being held to have 

 begun on the 30th October last. 



MS. page 18. 



Willem Robbertsz Alma, of Rotterdam, having arrived here 

 in 1639 in the ship "Amsterdam" as a cabin boy on a salary of 

 4 guilders per month, having for some time past been 

 employed here as a penman in the logie 1 and in the count- 

 ing house, where the garrison books are kept, in which by 

 continual diligence he has made great progress, is, by these 

 presents, in order to give him encouragement, at his humble 

 request, appointed to the rank of junior assistant, his salary 

 being fixed at 12 guilders per month, the increase beginning 

 at this day's date. 



Pieter Claesz, of Dort, having arrived in India in 1638 in the 

 ship " Welsinge " as a musketeer on a salary of 10 guilders per 

 month, is, his engagement having expired, at his request, 

 admitted to a new engagement of three years in the service 

 of the East India Company as an Adelborst, his salary being 

 fixed at 12 guilders per month, the increase being held to 

 have begun on the 30th October last. 



Actum in the town of Santa Cruz de Galle, datum ut supra. 

 Jan Thy sen, Marten Vinck, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van der 

 Laen, Lambert Camholt. 



Wednesday, November 20, 1641. 



MS. page 19. 



In order to let the inhabitants of this Island of Ceylon 

 know that up to this time we here in India have made no 

 peace with the Portuguese, and have not the least knowledge 

 thereof (as the Portuguese falsely say and the natives firmly 



1 Loge or logement, probably the office attached to the Governor's 

 residence for the transaction of business. 



