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On Thursday, being the 5th of September

G[ e ]orge Homs, plaintiff, vs. Jeuriaen from Osenbrugge,^[1] defendant, for payment of 17 gl. and 10 stivers. Default.

On Thursday, being the 12th of September

Cornelio van [ der ] Hoykens, plaintiff, vs. Laurens Haen, defendant. Plaintiff maintains that the defendant, if he can be apprehended, is liable to arrest and deserves to be flogged with rods and demands that he be condemned to pay a fine for the behoof of such persons as the director and council shall deem proper.

The director and council of New Netherland having seen the criminal proceedings instituted at the request of Cornelis van [ der ] Hoykens, fiscal, plaintiff, vs. Laurens Haen from Amsterdam, aged about 23 or 24 years, formerly assistant in the store, defendant, whereby it clearly appears that the defendant has not hesitated to take and steal from the honorable directors' store here, silk, napkins, tablecloths, linen, cambric, velvet, sugar, terzanelle,^[2] spices, etc., and cash which he buried in various places, such as a certain goat house on the strand near the land of Davit Provoost, in his garden and at the end of the Lange Heere wech, as appears from his voluntary confession, made in writing while free from torture or irons, sent to the honorable director and council and consisting of seven separate schedules, some without date and others bearing the day and year; which defendant, having been placed under arrest on account of said crimes in order that he might be dealt with according to law and the matter might be further investigated, escaped from prison during the night between the 2^nd and 3^rd of May. Therefore, having first called upon God and duly weighed and considered the aforesaid case, we, administering justice therein, as we do hereby, find the charges of the fiscal to be true as the money was dug up in four different places and goods were taken from the houses of two different persons. Nevertheless, considering his youth, we declare the aforesaid Laurens Haen liable to arrest if he can be apprehended elsewhere and furthermore condemn him, as we do hereby, if he were present, to be publicly placed on the scaffold and there to be flogged with rods, and further to pay a fine of 150 Carolus guilders for the benefit of the fiscal and the costs of the trial as an example to all others.

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Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.