Document: Summons to Maria Verleth to appear and answer the complaint of Joost Van Beecq

Having received and read the foregoing petition, after all due deliberation, it has been decided:

To place a copy of this and his charge in the hands of Maria Verleth, who is ordered, as the petitioner is about to depart for the fatherland, to respond thereto by the next Thursday being the 27th of this month, and to appear in person at the session of the director general and councilors. Ady ut supra.

At the session, present: the lord [ ] the lords councilors, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Tienhoven.

Joost van Beecq, plaintiff, against Maria Verleth, defendant, in a case of slander. The defendant not appearing is given a default, and the court messenger, Claes van Elslant, is ordered, at the request of the plaintiff, to summon the aforesaid Maria Verleth once again to appear in person on this coming Saturday at the session of the director general and councilors, on pain of forfeiting 24 stivers for the benefit of the poor for failure to do so. Ady ut supra.

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