NO. 53.— 1902.] GALLE DUTCH RECORDS. 347 



brawler unworthy of wearing a sword, and to work without 

 pay on the general outworks, his leg being loaded with 

 chains ; cum expensis. 



Thus done and sentenced in the town of Galle on the 7th 

 February, 1641, and pronounced on the 8th following. 



Jan Thysen, Pieter Lemoyne, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan 

 Symonsen Verlaen, Dirck van Gimmen, 



MS. page 110. 



Whereas Clement Marot, a native of Bengal, formerly 

 servant to the Honourable Willem Jacobsz Coster, 1 of blessed 

 memory, in his lifetime President of the Company's factories 

 in the Island of Ceylon, has freely and without torture or 

 any threats of the same confessed, and it has become 

 sufficiently evident to the Worshipful Council of this town 

 that, at the time when the said Lord President Coster was 

 on his journey to Candy, he, the said Clement Marot, setting 

 aside all fidelity which he owed to the said President did not 

 scruple, as soon as he had heard the current rumours 

 respecting his master's death, to appropriate to himself in 

 thievish guise, out of his said master's coffers, two pigs 2 and 

 a small bar of gold, 365 golden St. Thomases, a heavy gold 

 chain, and 100 pieces of eight in specie, with which not 

 being satisfied, he did, moreover, when at the undoubted 

 intelligence of his Excellency's assassination, his chests were 

 sealed up by order of the Council of this town, conspire 

 with one Christiaen Swart, formerly a Captain of this garrison 

 and now a prisoner, to unseal the said chests with the point 



1 Willem Jacobsz Coster, whose name heads the list of the successive 

 Dutch Governors of Ceylon, was treacherously murdered by the Sinhalese 

 on his return from the Court of Kandy, whither he repaired immediately 

 after the capture of Galle, 13th March, 1840. (See Beknopte Historie, 

 in C.B.R.A.S. Journal, vol. XL, page 34 ; Valentyn, Byzondere Zaaken 

 v. Ceylon, page 120 ; Ceylon Lit. Beg., vol. II., page 37.) 



2 The word translated " pigs" here is scliuytgens, but the context makes 

 this interpretation absurd. Sehuitje (or bootje) may also mean a locket 

 (catch or spring to fasten a necklace), which would seem to be the correct 

 translation, although I have not met with this meaning of the word in any 

 dictionary. 



