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

 of July, 1640, and pronounced the 4th following. 



MS. page 102. 



Whereas Jan Claesz, of Nieuveen, musketeer, forming 

 part of the garrison of the fortress of Battecaloa, at present 

 their Worships' prisoner, did not scruple to get drunk and 

 so far to forget himself, that having got from words to 

 blows with one Tobias Caspersen, also a musketeer, and 

 having been separated by the Ensign of this garrison, he 

 proceeded from bad to worse, and having drawn his knife 

 did therewith give the said Tobias three distinct cuts, the 

 latter having strictly refrained from drawing any pointed 

 weapon ; 



All which being matters of very hurtful consequence, 

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

 a well-ordered Government where justice and the law are 

 administered, but as an example to others should be most 

 rigorously punished ; 



Therefore the Lord President and his Council, having 

 heard the prisoner's full confession, administering justice in 

 the name of the Supreme Authority, nevertheless preferring 

 mercy to the utmost rigour of the law, have condemned and 

 sentenced the said prisoner, as they condemn and sentence 

 him by these presents, to receive a hundred lashes, to have 

 his hand nailed to a post by means of a knife, and so to remain 

 standing, and finally to forfeit six months' pay for the benefit 

 of the Honourable Company ; cum expensis. 



Thus done and resolved in the town of Galle, the 2nd 

 July, and pronounced and executed the 4th following. 



MS. page 103. 



Whereas Steven Lambertsen, born at Cambrai, who came 

 out to India in the ship " Middelburch " in 1639, as an 

 Adelborst in the service of the United Dutch Incorporated 

 East India Company, last having been in garrison in the 

 town of Galle, and at present their Worships' prisoner. 



