Document: Judgment in the case of the fiscal vs. Andries Matthias

The director-general and high council, Poulus Leendersz and Oloff Stevensz, schepens, have heard the charges of the fiscal against Andries Matthias for insolence, injuries and impudence [ ] Andries Matthias committed against [ ] justice and his factor; and having considered everything of merit, condemn him, for [ ] reasons which can be seen in more detail in the sentence,[1] to be taken this Saturday to the place where justice is commonly administered and there to be beaten with rods, and then banished from the province for a period of 25 years. Done at New Amsterdam, 13 November 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, N. de Sille, La Montange, P. L. vander Grift, Oloff Stevensz.

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