Document: Votes of council members on the punishment to be inflicted on Claes Michielsen

13 July.

Present at the meeting: the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille, Pieter Tonneman, and Johan de Deckere.

Having read the claim and demand of the lord fiscal on and against Claes Michielsen, prisoner, and having heard the prisoner’s confession, the demand was announced to the lord general in his room, as his honor was ill. He recommends that the delinquent be whipped, have his hair cut off, have a hole burned through his ear with an awl, [ and that ] he shall labor together with the Company’s Negroes for two years, and pay the legal costs.

Recommendation of the lord Tonneman:

He conforms to the lord director general’s recommendation, except for the two years’ labor, for which he advises one year to be enough, and the wages to be confiscated.

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