Document: Order to the skipper of the ships Bear and Brindled Cow

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First of November

The skipper and supercargo of the ship de Beer, namely, Cornelis Willemsz Beer and Jan Jansz Bestevaer are hereby ordered to put the honorable Johan Risingh and factor Elswijck and their people ashore in England or France, as may be most convenient, pursuant to the capitulation, and the remaining Swedish soldiers at Den Helder; and to direct the commissary of the West India Company, Pieter Claesen Croon, to transfer their goods and merchandise temporarily ashore or to a galiot, pursuant to the capitulation, to be taken to Gottenborch without charge. Note: An order with the same content was sent to the skipper of the ship de Bontecoe.

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