NO. 53.— 1902.] GALLE DUTCH RECORDS. 343 



did on the 11th of September last (being the day after the 

 desertion of the former Captain St. Amand), so far forget 

 and misdemean himself that, setting aside all honour, 

 respect, and obedience which a soldier owes to his 

 officers, and quite forgetful of his oath sworn to the aforesaid 

 Company, did not scruple, after having got drunk with the 

 Company's sury with some of his accomplices, of whom he 

 appeared to be the leader, and having created a great riot and 

 disturbance, violently to oppose himself to the Sergeant 

 Adam Helwingh,who had been sent by the Lieutenant of 

 this garrison to put a stop to the said riot ; to seize the said 

 sergeant by the head, to throw him on the ground and keep 

 him under foot with his drawn sword in his hand, until some 

 other sergeants, who had also been sent thither by order of 

 the Lieutenant in order to put a stop to the tumult, reaching 

 the place, did set the said Adam Helwingh on his legs 

 again, upon which the prisoner put up his sword ; 

 for which violence the prisoner having been rebuked by the 

 said sergeants, and been told to go quietly to the church 

 where his lodging was, with which he ought to have been 

 well content and to have composed himself to peace and 

 quiet ; 



Yet he, always going on in his wild extravagance, 

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did, instead' of obeying the said sergeants, answer them, 

 while patting the hilt of his sword with his hand, " Are you 

 sergeants ; I am a soldier ! " so that the sergeants being 

 unable to lay hold of him went back without him ; 



By all which the Lieutenant, who was the head of this 

 garrison owing to the desertion of the former Captain, was 

 forced to go thither with forty musketeers in order to quell 

 the riot, in which he accordingly succeeded, except that the 

 prisoner, instead of obeying him as the others did, opposed 

 himself to the said Lieutenant and called him various filthy 

 and opprobrious names ; 



