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hither before 11 o'clock, inquiring after a certain soldier 

 Hans Gillisz by name and the woman or slave who had been 

 with him ; and when he was answered that the said Hans 

 Gillisz had already left with her, he said " I shall know where 

 to find him," and thereupon again leaving the guard-house he 

 returned about half past one with the aforesaid Hans Gillisz, 

 and raving drunk, and when the latter upbraided him for his 

 insolence he broke his head with his rotang ; x for which un- 

 seemly noise which he made in the guard-house, and straight 

 before the lodgings of the Lord President, having been 

 reprimanded by the corporal and the sentinel, he abused 

 the latter persons, asking the sentinel whether he had also 

 something to say ; 



All which being matters of very hurtful consequence, 

 which should not in the least be tolerated or connived at in 

 a well-disposed Government where justice and the law are 

 administered, but as an example to others should be most 

 rigorously punished ; 



Therefore the Lord President and the Cocmcil having seen 

 the depositions against the prisoner, and heard his free 

 confession made in full Council, administering justice in the 

 name of the Supreme Authority, nevertheless preferring 

 mercy to the utmost rigour of the law, have stripped the 

 prisoner of his honourable sergeant's office and degraded 

 him to the rank of a common soldier at a monthly pay of 

 9 guilders ; cum expensis. 



Thus done and sentenced in the town of Galle, the 2nd day 

 of July, 1641, and pronounced the 4th following. 



MS. page 99. 



Whereas Jan Hellewouts,of Oostende, Adelborst in garrison 

 at the town of Galle, at present their Worships' prisoner, 

 did a few days ago so far forget and misdemean himself, 

 that running into the Captain's garden like a madman he 

 committed all kinds of extravagances there, trampling under 



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