Document: Order suspending the court at Flushing until further orders

[22nd January

The foregoing letter from the oldest magistrate of the village of Vlissingen, William Lawrence, having been opened and read in council, it is resolved, to answer by the bearer] thereof, Willam [ Noble, ] that they should suspend their meetings in the capacity of magistrates until the director general and councilors themselves have been in their village, or until they have sent their delegates to set things right there; if meanwhile something extraordinary occurred, they should refer it to the director general and councilors. Dated as above.[i]

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