NO. 53. — 1902.] (xALLE DUTCH RECORDS. 471 

 MS.fol. 129. 



To be commanders of the small craft, boats, skiffs, and 

 sloops are appointed the persons following : 



Skipper Commander Reynderfc Weybrantsz and Steven 

 Pietersz, skipper of the ship " Amsterdam." 



Captain Johan Burgers has been elected Sergeant-Major of 

 the army, to hold said office provisionally in the room of 

 Major Willem van der Beecq, now laid up with illness. 



In the second place these our forces shall consist of 19' 

 companies, to wit : 



13 companies of soldiers from Batavia. 

 4 do. from the garrison of Galle. 

 2 do. of sailors armed with pikes. 



19 companies together, who shall be divided into three 

 troops, which shall form respectively the vanguard, the 

 centre, and the rear-guard ; 



who, one hour before daybreak, on the signal given by 

 hoisting up a lantern at the yard-arm of the ship " D'Engelse 

 Hoop," shall land in good order and shall march : 

 first, the vanguard commanded by the Lord President Jan 

 Thysen, the Uppermerchant Pieter Vinckboous, together 

 with Captain Paulus Doncq ; said vanguard to consist of 6 

 companies, to wit, 5 companies of soldiers, viz. : 



1 company commanded by Lieutenant Lambert Camholt 



and his Ensign Geleyn Cornelisz, 

 1 company commanded by Lieutenant Marcus Cassel 



and his Ensign Balthasar Laube, 

 1 company commanded by Lieutenant Gerrit Maeyer 

 and his Ensign Jan van Gulick, 



MS.fol. 130. 



1 company commanded by Lieutenant Jan Brantten- 



burch and his Ensign Cornells Snoecq. 

 Men. 



4 companies from Galle, among which one 



composed of matchlock men, of 75 men 



each, together ... ... 300' 



