Document: Resolution allowing rev. Mr. Drisius 300 guilders annually for board

[several lines lost] [ ] is the amicable [ ] Was signed,

Samuel Drisius, preacher here in this place.

[ 13 August 1658 ] in N: Amsterdam

Together with the above petition, a letter from the lords directors was delivered by dominee Drisius, basically stating that they allowed dominee Drisius 300 guilders boarding money annually and a free dwelling, or to receive the sum of 200 guilders per year for that purpose.

Having taken the petition into consideration, it is resolved, the commissary shall be ordered to properly enter the boarding money; concerning the house rent, if the petitioner is not content with the honorable Company’s house that he presently uses, and he wants to provide himself with that elsewhere, in which case the petitioner shall be granted the assigned house rent. Dated as above.

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