NO. 53. — 1902.] GALLB DUTCH RECORDS. 



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monthly pay of 14 guilders, the new engagement and 

 increase of pay being held to have begun on the 24th of this 

 month. 



Fredrick Jansz, of Leyden, who came out to India in 

 the ship [ ] in the year [ ], as a soldier on a 



monthly pay of 9 guilders, and the term of whose engagement 

 has expired, is by these presents at his request admitted to a 

 re-engagement in the Company's service for another term of 

 three years, and in the capacity of Adelborst allowed a 

 monthly pay of 11 guilders, the new engagement and increase 

 of pay being held to have begun on the 24th of this month. 



Cornells Adriaensz, of Middelburch, who came out to 

 India in the yacht " Grysherbe " in 1639, as a hooploper 1 on a 

 monthly pay of 7 guilders, and the term of whose engage- 

 ment has expired, is by these presents at his request admitted 

 to a re-engagement in the Company's service for another 

 term of three years, and in the capacity of Adelborst 

 allowed a monthly pay of 10 guilders, the new engagement 

 and increase of pay being held to have begun on the 24th 

 of this month. 



MS. page 82. 



Jan Willemsz de Klercq, of Yeere, who came out to 

 India in the ship " Zuiderzee " in 1639, as a musketeer on a 

 monthly pay of 12 guilders, and whose three years' engage- 

 ment is shortly to expire, is by these presents at his request 

 re-engaged for another term of three years, and in the 

 capacity of first boatswain (which place he has filled for 

 some time past) allowed a monthly pay [ ] guilders, 



the increase of pay being held to have begun on the 24th 

 of this month, and the new engagement when his old term 

 shall have expired. 



Dirck Cornelisz van der Vaert, who came out to India in 

 the ship " Amsterdam " in 1639, as a boatswain on a monthly 



1 It is not easy to give the exact English equivalent of this or indeed of 

 many of the terms denoting occupation which have been literally translated 

 here. A hooplooper was probably the same SL&jonker, son of a gentleman. 



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