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but as an example to others should be most rigorously 

 punished ; 



Therefore the Lord President and his Council aforesaid, 

 having heard the prisoner's defence, and furthermore having 

 maturely weighed and considered everything thereto apper- 

 taining and calculated to move their Worships' minds, 



Administering justice in the name of the Supreme 

 Authority, nevertheless preferring mercy to the utmost rigour 

 of the law, have condemned and sentenced the said prisoner, 

 as they condemn and sentence him by these presents, to be 

 carried to the customary place of execution, there to be tied 

 to a stake and to have a bullet fired over his head ; cum 

 expensis. 



Thus done and sentenced on the 26th June, 1642, in the 

 town of Galle, and pronounced and executed on the 27th 

 following. Jan Thysen, Marten Yinck, Walraven de Rivire, 

 Gerrit Moutmaker, Jacob Gans, Jan Symonsen Verlaen, 

 Lambert Camholt. 



MS. page 123. 



Whereas it has clearly and evidently appeared to the 

 Lord President and the Worshipful Council of the town of 

 Galle, that Jeuriaen Jeuriaensz, of Anchellam (?), soldier in 

 garrison in this town, stationed on the [ ] of 



Seeburch, at present their Worships' prisoner, has, disregard- 

 ing the example set him by the punishment executed on 

 Barnardo Rodrigo, also a soldier, for the same misdemeanour 

 on the 26th June last, and setting aside all honour, fidelity, 

 and his oath sworn to the Honourable East India Company, 

 not scruple on the night of the 26th June aforesaid, 

 between 11 and 12 o'clock, after having stood sentry for 

 a while, to sit down and compose himself to sleep, and 

 that so soundly that he had to be wakened by the rounds, who 

 had previously hemmed and called him, and not seeing him 

 nor getting any answer from him, had thrown stones at him 

 over the fence, and finally thrust at him with their pikes ; 



