Document: Report of Councillor Tonneman, of what occurred at the nomination of burgomasters and schepens

[several lines lost] at three o’clock [ ] were the lords burgomasters Paulus Leendertsen [ ] schepenen Johannes de Peijster and Hendrick Jansz van [ ] were W. Beeckman and Govert Loockermans [ ] held discussions, and their honors, having asked the burgomasters and schepenen whether, according to the order of the director general and councilors, they did not intend to begin a new nomination, because the first was not legally passed according to the instructions and orders given to their honors by the director general and councilors, and because neither the scholtes nor someone authorized by the director general and councilors was present; upon which ditto lords finally answered broadly that they were unaware that someone of the honorable high council had to be present there other than their scholtus the honorable lord N. de Silla; they said that they had had the court messenger, the young Elslant, announce this. And finally, burgomasters and schepenen jointly answered that although they had to reach a new and second nomination, they were not able to draft another one except for the one they already made before, and therefore persisted with the nomination they presented previously, which the aforesaid Loockermans, with whom we spoke afterwards, also gave us for an answer. Finally, when all of this was taken into consideration by the lord scholtes N: de Silla, it was approved and confirmed, as they said, and judge, under correction, that they put no others than sympathizers of the Reformed religion on the list of nominations that was handed over, because according to their judgment, these were righteous, sensible, and affluent people. Reporting this according to the best of my memory, in Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the first of February 1658.

Your honors’ willing and obedient servant, Pieter Tonneman.