5 October 1656, Thursday, the military tribunal.[i]
Present at the session: the lord fiscal d’Sille, Capt. Lieutenant Brian Nuton, the two sergeants, Andries Laurensen.
[several lines lost] He was asked: How old and where he was born?
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Why he was sent here?
Answers, because he sold his [ ] one of Capt. Conincx’s snaphances was also broken underneath [ondergescheurt].
Where did he leave the payment that he received for them?
Answers, he received for them three and a half beavers and that he bought again another snaphance with them from Tomas Bruyn for three beavers.
How many guns had he brought into the country?
Answers, one small gun, being one of his own snaphances, which he sold to a Dickman,[ii] whose name was unfamiliar to him, at the house of Jacob Wolffertsz.
What kind of musket barrel was it that he took from before the constapel’s door?
Answers, not to have taken a barrel from the constapel[ ’s ] door but from the garret [ and ] of another weapon.
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[several lines lost] is sorry that he neglected to do so.
How did he get into an argument with Adam Onckelbach?
Answers, that Adam had gotten into an argument with another and that when he interceded he got into the argument.
The awe-inspiring military tribunal having heard the question of the fiscal and the answer of the sergeant Hans Hopman, agrees that Hans Hopman shall be free to go about unconfined until the return of the lord general, up and down, but shall do no duties until further orders.
