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had, with the assistance of the Surgeon-Major Clero and the 
Onderkoopman Van Velsen, [Adriaan van Velsen of Batavia 
was married in Galle, 1767, to Gertruda Sibilla de Leeuw of 
Galle, daughter of Johannes Willemsz de Leeuw and Susanna 
Brakel] sprinkled the said crown with rose water and dealt 
out to the qualified bearers green twigs with ribbons of silver 
lace attached to them. The body was borne by twenty-four 
corporals^ with six in reserve to relieve each other in the bier 
or under the cloth. On both sides there marched two deep 
His Honour's bodyguard. The above-named velvet pall was 
held up on both sides by eighteen qualified persons, with 
round hats, long cloaks, and mourning bands, and a green 
twig with a ribbon of silver lace tied to it in the right 
hand. With these there were four more qualified slip- 
draagers^ who held up the four ends of the pall, also in deep 
mourning and with green twig, &c. For the rest, the body 
was placed in a soldered copper cofian tinned over, and this 
was in turn placed in a good water-tight wooden case covered 
with black satin, set all round on the sides with an edging 
of silver. Behind the hearse followed the relations of His 
Honour of blessed memory so far as they were known, and 
further those who had to represent the rest, all in deep 
mourning, viz. : — 
!• Aland Laron van Eck. 
2. Willem Jacob, Baron van Eck. 
3. Adriaan Moens. 
4. Harmanus Jeronymus van Cleef . 
5. Jan Hendrik Fredrik Willem van Calthof. 
Thereafter the members of the Government, with round 
bats, cloaks, and mourning bands : — 
1. Daniel Burn at. 
[Dissave of Matara, died in Colombo, 1806. He was a native 
of Bern, and married in 1789 Elizabeth Hoist.] 
2. Joan Gerardus van Angelbeek. 
[Afterwards Governor of Ceylon, was married to Jacomina 
Lever. His daughter Christina Elizabeth was married to 
Willem Jacob van de Graaflf, Governor of Ceylon.] 
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