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payment, on condition that the said Moor should return the 

 same to him, which the said Moor was unwilling to do ; 

 upon which the prisoner, having no linen doublet upon 

 him, told the Moor to go with him into the town to his 

 house, where he promised to hand him the said doublet ; 

 then together going into the town and coming near the 

 house of Ensign Leuwyne, the said Moor caught the 

 prisoner by the sleeve, insisting on being paid the four 

 stivers immediately, upon which the prisoner and the Moor 

 having got into words, and the prisoner pushing him away 

 from his body, the said prisoner drew his cutlass, intending, 

 as he says, to give the Moor a blow on the back with the flat 

 of the said cutlass, and struck him on the arm and severely 

 wounded him ; 



All which being matters of very dangerous consequence, 

 forasmuch as by them, the Moors, whom we ought to 

 befriend in all possible ways, seeing that they are of great 

 service to us, might easily be estranged from us, and begin to 

 sell their goods to other nations and thus leave us altogether 

 unprovided ; 



Which should not be in the least tolerated in a place 

 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 

 considered all that pertains to this matter and has been 

 allowed to move their Worships' minds,administering justice 

 in the name of 



MS. page 116. 



the Supreme Authority, have condemned and sentenced the 

 said prisoner, as they condemn and sentence him by these 

 presents, to receive a certain number of lashes at the discre- 

 tion of the Council, and be made to mount guard in heavy 

 armour ; also to pay three pieces of eight 1 to the surgeon for 



1 A piece of eight was probably a silver coin. It is not mentioned by 

 Valentyn in his description of coins current in Ceylon. 



