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



353 



All which being matters of very dangerous consequence, 

 as in this way the Company is robbed of the produce of 

 her cocoanut trees, which are urgently wanted here, seeing 

 that there is hardly any cocoanut oil here for the garrison, 

 to be burnt in the lamps, and none can be obtained from the 

 Cingalese ; 



which, if not seen to in time, might cause this garrison to be 

 reduced to great straits ; 



and which should not be in the least tolerated or connived 

 at in a well-ordered Government where justice and the law 

 are administered, but should as an example to others be 

 most rigorously punished ; 



Therefore the Lord President and his Council, having 

 heard the prisoner's free confession, administering justice 

 in the name of the Supreme Authority, nevertheless pre- 

 ferring mercy to the utmost rigour of the law, have con- 

 demned and sentenced the said prisoner, as they condemn 

 and sentence him by these presents, to receive fifty lashes, 

 and besides to be put in chains and set to work without pay 

 on the general earthworks ; cum expensis. 



MS. page 114. 



Thus done and resolved in the town of Galle, this 27th 

 February, 1641 Anno, and pronounced and executed on the 

 28th following. Jan Thy sen, Pieter Lemoyne,Gerrit Mout- 

 maker, Jan Symonsen Verlaen, Dirck van Gimmen. 



MS. page 115. 



Whereas Adriaen Pietersz, of Madelbeeck, corporal in 

 garrison here, stationed at the point of Vriesland, at present 

 a prisoner, did, without torture or any threats of the same, 

 freely confess, and it has become sufficiently evident to 

 the Worshipful Council of this town that, unmindful of 

 his previous misdemeanour and the punishment consequent 

 thereon, he did again last Friday, being intoxicated, buy 

 a piece of cloth of a certain Moor (outside the town gate) 

 for [ ] stivers, wishing to give him a [ ] in 



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