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private ; Steven Jaspers, of Lorynen [Lorraine], private ; 

 Hendrick Diloofs, of Rotterdam, private ; Andries Oloffs, 

 of Commel (?), private ; Luyckas Galpyn, of Amsterdam., 

 corporal ; Hendrick Jansz, of Blyswyck, constable ; Harmen 

 Gerritsz, of Rees, private ; Cryn Leenders, of Rotterdam, 

 private ; Joost Claesz Boot, of Gorcum, private ; Hendrick 

 Hendricksz, of Rotterdam, boatswain; Adam Dircksz, of 

 Rotterdam, boatswain ; and Jacob Hans, of Stockholm, 

 also boatswain, at present all of them their Worships' 

 prisoners, all, setting aside their own welfare, and notably 

 the oath sworn to Their High Mightinesses and the Honour- 

 able East India Company of serving the same loyally 

 and faithfully at the risk of life and property, did, on the 

 9th of this month, having gone out with others of our soldiers 

 to reconnoitre the roads hereabouts and to provide victuals, 

 and having engaged in fight with a body of the enemy's 

 troops, not scruple to throw away, some of them all their 

 arms, others a part of them, to take to flight, and in this 

 plight to return to town, although to excuse themselves 

 they, 



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according to their confessions made, shelter themselves 

 under various pleas, as follows : — - 



The Musketeers. 



Albert Jansz van Delft, midshipman ; that in the medley 

 his (the prisoner's) musket was shot out of his hand by the 

 enemy ; that shortly after he fell under foot owing to the 

 retreat and the violent pressing of our own people, so that 

 his bandoleer was torn from his body ; that at the same time 

 he lost his cutlass, which he held unsheathed [in his hand ; 

 after which, together with others, he fled and repaired to the 

 wood in order to hide himself. 



Aris Wynders, of Amsterdam, private; that he, the prisoner, 

 standing near Lieutenant Gans, and having cut off a pike of 



