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who thenceforth ought to have held his peace ; but instead of 

 this, continuing in his mad rage he came to the guard-house 

 in the evening dead drunk, and there without any reason 

 again inveighed against the Sergeant Hendrick Claesz with 

 many and sundry calumnious and opprobrious terms, among 

 other names styling him a rogue, a dog, and an ass, adding 

 that he did not care a fig for the said sergeant, and 

 that the latter was too cowardly to touch him or call him 

 any bad names, also saying that he knew more by himself 

 than all the whoreson sergeants taken together, and that in 

 the whole company there was not one fellow whom (salva 

 reverentia) he held worth a turd, after which throwing 

 his sword three several times on the ground and tearing 

 his hair, he went on lustily raving, slandering, and blas- 

 pheming, without the said sergeant giving him any hard 

 word in return, but on the contrary patiently bearing every- 

 thing and advising him to restrain himself ; to which the 

 prisoner not paying the slightest heed, and his rage and 

 extravagance getting worse and worse, the said sergeant was 

 compelled to give notice of the same to the Lieutenant, upon 

 which the prisoner was at last taken into safe custody ; 



All which being matters of very dangerous 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 and seen the depositions against the prisoner's 

 conduct, and his free confession and defence made before 

 the court, administering justice in the name of the Supreme 

 Authority and according to the General Articles of War, 

 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 

 ignominiously expelled from his company as a rebellious 



