No. 54.— 1903.] DUTCH MONUMENTAL REMAINS. 
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48. 
Over the entrance to the old military hospital, Hospital 
street, Galle : — 
AKERSLOOT 
A° 1750. 
Remarks. — This bastion was no doubt named after the 
birthplace of Willem Jacobsz Coster. The marriage register 
of Batavia records bis marriage thus : — 
" 30 Juli 1637. Willem Jacobsz Coster, Commandeur van 
Akersloot 
Weduwnaar van Willemtze Ren 
met 
Johanna Goosens van Dantzic jonge dogter " 
(30 July, 1637. Willem Jacobs Coster, Commandeur of 
Akersloot, widower of Willemtze Ren, with Johanna 
Goosens of Dantzic, spinster.) The same register informs us 
that after Coster's death (Nillegala, 21st August, 1640) 
Johanna Goosens married in Batavia, Mth February, 1643, 
Pieter Soury of Rotterdam, Commissaris, widower of Agnita 
Cluyten. 
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On a silver tobacco box in the possession of Dr. Pieris : — 
HEYMAN. 
Adolph Martin Heyman, an Ensign in the Dutch Service, 
was a native of Leuwenstein. He was married in Colombo, 
26th July, 1789, to Cornelia Henrietta Philipsz, who married, 
as widow Heyman, Christoppel de Saram, fourth Maha 
Mudaliyar. 
