Document: Sentence of Claes Michielsen

[several lines lost] [ Claes Michielse l’Orange ] [i] named Jopje, sailor on the Company’s yacht here, prisoner at present, [ who, ] notwithstanding the fact that he has had no lack of a decent ration, much less of payment, tried to exceed the moral law so far that he with all his belongings ran away from the said yacht and the Company to New England, planning to proceed elsewhere from there, and not to come back to the said yacht or the Company, which is a matter contrary to the political and military ordinances, and deserves to be punished severely, as an example to others. Therefore, the director general and councilors of N: Netherland, having heard the prisoner’s own confession and the claim of the fiscal, and having paid attention to whatever may be relevant in the matter, after calling upon God’s Holy Name, 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 at the chamber of Amsterdam, condemned the aforesaid prisoner, as they hereby condemn him, that he be brought to the place where justice is usually performed [several lines lost]