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decision of the Lord President and his Council ; and since the 

 receipt of their aforesaid Worships' order, we have, to our 

 sincere regret, not had a single opportunity for gaining 

 the least advantage over the enemy either with large or small 

 sallying parties, seeing that for four or five months past the 

 enemy has, so to say, not moved an inch from Hackmiene, 

 their fortified camping place, 



MS.fol. 98. 



as we have been told by the last arrived Portuguese runaway ; 

 also, that if the fleet were ordered to make its voyage hither 

 by a roundabout way, it might appear here very late in the 

 season, as was the case last year with the Lord Commissioner 

 Pieter Boreel, so that the said military officers, having now 

 gone without their pay for two months past, and yet done 

 their duties as before as becomes trusty officers, might have 

 to wait a very long time if their reinstatement were put off 

 until the appearance of the fleet — by which especially those 

 among them who are encumbered with wife and children 

 might be reduced to sore straits. 



Therefore it has been resolved by majority of votes 

 — the more so, as in this way the officers aforesaid will be 

 greatly encouraged, in future, not only as we have no doubt, 

 to efface the former stain on their reputation, but also to be 

 thoroughly revenged on the enemy — 



that the officers aforesaid, Captain Paulus Doncq and the 

 Ensigns Burchardt Cocqs, Jan Brandenburch, and Marcus 

 Symonsz, shall be fully restored to their offices as they were 

 before their suspension ; their pay and rations being held 

 to have begun again on the first day of this current month of 

 November. 



Adriaen van Velsen, arrived in India in 1637 as a sailor, 

 on a pay of 9 guilders monthly, at present serving as an 

 assistant on a pay of 18 guilders per month,whose engagement 

 is about to expire, is, by these presents, at his request, and 



