Document: Order fixing the pay of two sailors for a voyage to Curaçao

[several lines lost] on the yacht [ ] served [ ] at the request of lord Becx came to make a journey to Aruba, and then, coming back to Curaçao, to leave from there to Holland; requesting that for that time they might be granted 12 guilders per month, but if they would go again to Curaçao with the yacht that they would be granted 13 guilders per month from now on.

After deliberation it is agreed that during their absence from Curaçao they will be granted 12 guilders per month to date, and on this date they are hired again for the journey to Curaçao at 13 guilders per month. Dated 20 May 1658.

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