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Fredrik Sievertsz was a native of Bremen, and was married 
in Colombo, 1711, to Catharina Heydelherg of Colombo. 
Bastiaan {Fredrik? Jurgen?) Wilhelmi was a native of 
Mecklenburg, and was married to Susanna Jonker of 
Colombo, widow of Fredrik Wevels, apothecary.] 
On either side of the aforesaid bearers there went the 
following shroud-bearers who held up the four ends of the 
black cloth shroud, all in mourning: — 
The Koopman Abraham Torin, 
The Ship-captain Jan Joppe Kroeff, 
The Onderkoopman Jan Arnold Wiggelhuyzen^ and 
The Onderkoopman Daniel Schooler. 
[^Abraham Torin was a native of Rouen and married in 
1708 to Elizabeth Staforts of Colombo.] 
XIX. — Behind the coffin there followed His Excellency's 
nephew, Johannes Jacobus Gruse^ and the Commandeur 
Arnout Moll^^" one behind the other, with long mourning 
bands and trailing cloaks, and thereafter, in pairs, the 
Members of the Political Council, with trailing cloaks and 
mourning bands, the Reverend Predikanten, the Pangerangh 
Aria Pourbaya^ the Members of the Civil Council, the 
Masters of the Orphan Chamber, the Commissioners of 
Marriage Causes, the elders and brother-deacons, all with 
cloaks. Thereafter all the Company's servants and Burghers, 
together with the principal native chiefs, all with mourning 
veils round their body. The procession went past the 
watch Leyden, along the canal, and through the so-called 
Bier street as far as the church, where the military and 
Burgher corps were drawn up in two ranks, through which 
the body was carried to the church, where it was lowered on 
to iron staves in a vault, after which three volleys were fired 
by the military, and after each volley a cannon was fired, 
after which all the guns in the Fort were fired at intervals 
of a minute, which was followed by firing from all the guns 
* Journal, R.A.S. (C,B.), vol. XV., No. 49, p. 257. 
