356 JOURNAL, r.a.s. (cbylon). [Yol. XVIL 



said prisoner, as they condemn and sentence him by these 

 presents, to be set to work in chains on the common earth- 

 works for the term of two months, 



MS. page 118. 



or so much less as the Council in their discretion shall 

 allow ; cum expensis. 



Thus done and sentenced on the 28th March, 1642, and 

 pronounced and executed on the 29th following, in the 

 town of Galle. Jan Thysen, Pieter Lemoyne, Gerrit Mout- 

 maker, Jan Symonsen Yerlaen, Dirck van Gimmen. 



MS. page 119. 



Whereas Antonio Revere, of Genoa, who came out to 

 India last year in the fluytscMp " Orangieboom " as a 

 musketeer, and arrived here from Goa in the yacht 

 " Valckenburch," to be employed as a soldier here, being 

 stationed at the point Gelderland, and Pedro de Conje, of 

 Canaryn, at present both of them prisoners, have without 

 torture or any threats of the same freely confessed, and 

 it has become plainly evident to the Lord President and 

 Council of this town that the prisoners, and chiefly the 

 prisoner Antonio Revere, setting aside all honour and faith 

 and the oath which they had sworn to the Supreme Authority 

 and the Honourable East India Company, did not scruple, 

 about eight or ten days ago and afterwards repeatedly, having 

 first made each other's acquaintance, to conspire, plot, and 

 ponder, now in this place, now in that, wherever opportunity 

 served, how they could best pass over to the Portuguese, 

 saying that they were no longer minded to serve the Dutch, 

 and that they hoped to get better pay and treatment from 

 the Portuguese, who at that time were lying not far from 

 here ; 



Which conspiracy lasted until at last the prisoners agreed and 

 resolved to execute their intent and to abscond, as follows : — 



When it should be the said Antonio Revere's turn to 

 stand sentry by night, he was beforehand to give notice 



