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after opening and reading of the aforesaid letters addressed 

 to the Lord Commissioner, in order to decide whether their 

 contents would demand such a course of proceeding ; 



It has been unanimously resolved and approved, to 

 despatch as soon as possible the yacht " Rommerswael" 

 aforesaid, and, if it should not overtake the Lord Com- 

 missioner before mentioned, to let it continue its voyage as 

 far as the roads of Goa, in order to wait there or meet His 

 Excellency in person. 



Thus resolved in the town of Galle, datum ut supra. Jan 

 Thysen, Paulus Doncq, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van der 

 Laen, Pieter Lemoyne, Lambert Camholt, Albert Hooghland, 

 Secretary. 



Saturday, March 14, 1643. 



MS.fol. 42. 



Whereas before the Court of Justice at this place a 

 dispute had arisen between Skipper Pr. Albertsz of the 

 yacht " Rommerswael," plaintiff, on one side, and Hendrick 

 Ycksz, skipper of the yacht " De Star," defendant, on 

 the other, both in convention and reconvention \8o in 

 conventie als reconventie] regarding the point hereunder 

 following :— That before the defendant's departure for 

 Coromandel on the 4th September of last year, the 

 plaintiff had handed to the said defendant the sum of 450 

 Spanish reals in specie, to be laid out there on linen for his 

 profit, and that on his return hither, the defendant on being 

 asked by the plaintiff for the goods he had bought for the 

 plaintiff's money, had declared that not only all the plaintiff's 

 goods, but also his own, the defendant's goods, consisting of 

 tapesarassa's 1 and other linens to an amount far exceeding 

 those belonging to the said Skipper Pieter Albertsz, had, by 

 the Lord Governor Arent Garden ys and the Council at 

 Paleacatte, being confiscated in behalf of the Honourable 

 Company, 



'Port, tapegaria, tapestry hangings. Valentyn (p. 56) mentions tapi 

 sarassa's. 



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