Document: Sentence of Severyn Lourens

Whereas Severijn Lourens van Rootschilt in Danmark, about 28 years old, presently imprisoned lanspassaet under the Company of the honorable lord director general here, crossed the moral law insofar, and dared to rob the public streets at various times [several lines lost] here [ ] complaints to [ ] differed[i]

[ ] less[ii] than such a person is [ ] to keep away, and to help keep away the evil as far as his office is concerned [ ], and even to show the soldiers and others a good example, and therefore, as an example to others deserves to be punished severely, about which the fiscal, as plaintiff and law officer, took the matter to court, and instituted his claim on and against the prisoner. The director general and councilors of N: Netherland, having heard the fiscal’s claim and the prisoner’s confession without torture, examined the information and seriously considered everything that is relevant in this matter. Therefore, the aforesaid director general and councilors, performing justice in the name of the honorable high and mighty lords States General of the United Netherlands and the honorable lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber Amsterdam, after calling God’s Holy Name, condemned the aforesaid prisoner Severijn Lourens, as they hereby condemn him to be stripped of his arms in Fort Amsterdam, and then [several lines lost]

Amsterdam in N: Netherland [ 12 April ] anno 1658