Document: Order on the petition of Lambert Lott granting him a passage to Holland in the ship Balance

At the session Lambert Lott remonstrated how he had been permitted by the lord director general and councilors to employ another soldier in his place, and to be allowed to return to the fatherland. And whereas Evert Brantsen, whom he put in his place, was a discharged soldier whom the Company had to provide free passage to the fatherland at its expense; therefore, he requests that he may enjoy the same, and that the captain of the ship de Waagh be ordered to take him along on the Company’s books.

Having received and read the foregoing petition, after due deliberation the following was decided:

The content hereof is left to the discretion of the honorable lords directors; in the meanwhile, the captain of the warship de Waagh is ordered to receive the petitioner on board as a servant of the Company and to take him along. Ady ut supra.

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