Document: Order on the petition of Paul Heymans for the release of his wife from prison

On Wednesday, 11 August.

At the session, present: the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant, the honorable lords councilors N. de Sille, La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Corn, van Tienhoven, having read the petition of Poul Hey- mans requesting that his wife be released from jail, and that they be allowed to earn a living here in this country next to other honest people, with the promise to leave the tapping trade and never again to take it up.

After due deliberation, it was decided to recommend the following: For the better management of the petitioner’s debts, old and new, he is permitted and allowed upon presentation of this that his wife, presently in confinement for a period of time, shall be released from confinement and confined in the petitioner’s house without giving their neighbors the least occasion to complain, much less that she or he be allowed to lodge or shelter anyone, no matter under what pretext it may be, upon pain of further punishment. Ady ut supra.