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All which being matters of very hurtful consequence, 

 savouringof positive mutiny, 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 Worshipful Council of this town, having 

 seen and heard the depositions against the said prisoner, the 

 prisoner's free confession, the requisitory of Gerrit Mout- 

 maker, ex officio, before the Council, the defence of the 

 prisoner before the same, together with what other consider- 

 ations they have allowed to move them, 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 be 



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led to the place of execution, to be tied to a post, and to be 

 fired at with arquebuses until death shall ensue, at the same 

 time confiscating all the pay still due to him. 



Thus sentenced in the town of Galle, the 5th October, 1641. 

 and pronounced on the 6th following. 



The Council being more disposed to mercy than to the 

 utmost rigour of the law, have for divers reasons been 

 pleased to acquit the prisoner Steven Lambertsen of the 

 punishment of death, to order the prisoner to be tied to a 

 post in the ordinary place of execution, to have a bullet fired 

 over his head, and to let him work for six months in cliains 

 on the general outworks of this town ; nevertheless the 

 sentence shall be drawn up and pronounced in the manner 

 as above, that thereby the prisoner who has well deserved 

 death shall experience fright, and his accomplices and other 

 persons in general may be deterred from such and similar 

 misdemeanours in future. 



Thus done, datum ut supra, and executed the 6th October. 

 Jan Thysen, Marten Vinck, Chr. Swartze, Pieter Lemoyne, 

 Gerrit Moutmaker. 



