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Administering justice in the name of the Supreme 

 Authority, nevertheless preferring mercy to the utmost 

 rigour of the law, have condemned and sentenced the pri- 

 soner, as they condemn and sentence her by these presents, 

 to be carried to the place of public execution, in order there 

 to be witness of her husband's punishment ; and since she 

 has been an accomplice to her husband's theft, she shall,, 

 like her husband, have all her goods confiscated as well as 

 his, with this understanding, however, that at the discretion 

 of the Council she shall, like her husband, be provided with 

 such clothing as she shall stand in need of. 



Thus done and sentenced in the town of Galle, the 19th 

 February, 1641, and pronounced and executed on the 20th 

 following. Jan Thysen, Pieter Lemoyne, Gerrit Moutmaker^ 

 Jan Symonsen Yerlaen, Dirck van Gimmen. 



MS. page 113. 



Whereas Jan Caspersen, of Weedlandt, a soldier in the 

 service of the United Dutch Incorporated East India 

 Company, in garrison at this town, at present their Wor- 

 ships' prisoner, did so far forget and misdemean him- 

 self (which has become sufficiently evident to the Lord 

 President and Council from the prisoner's own free con- 

 fession), that on the 26th of this month, about 5 o'clock in 

 the evening, he did not scruple, against his bounden duty 

 and all military discipline, without the knowledge or the 

 orders of his superior officers, not only to leave the place 

 where he had to keep guard, but also, like a disobedient and 

 obstinate trespasser, altogether to ignore the repeated 

 placards, first issued in the time of the Lord President 

 Coster, and again on the 12th of this month by the 

 present Lord President and his Council, touching the 

 climbing of the Company's cocoanut trees situated in this 

 town, so that the said prisoner has been caught in the act of 

 climbing the said trees by the Lieutenant Verlaen, who 

 accordingly has consigned the said prisoner to safe custody, 



