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The honorable director general of New Netherland, Curaçao and the islands thereof, and the honorable council, having seen the complaint of the fiscal against Roulof Cornelisz, a soldier, at present a prisoner, who recently, in the morning of the first of January, among other insolent acts, while intoxicated, made bold to inflict, without provocation, according to the affidavits, five wounds on Corporal Jacob Luersen, when said corporal endeavored to separate said Roelof Cornelisz and Casper Steenmetsel,^[1] who were quarreling with each other, so as to prevent further injury and mishap, as more fully appears by the affidavits; which is not only a direct violation of the 32d article of the sworn military regulations, but also contrary to the ordinance published on the last day of Nay 1647; therefore, Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, etc., and the honorable council, in the name of their High Mightinesses, the honorable States General, his Highness of Orange, and the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, wishing to do justice, as they do hereby, condemn the said Roelof Cornelisz to ride the wooden horse with a ten pound weight to each foot for three consecutive days, for two hours each day, and in addition to forfeit six months ' pay, to be applied, one-third for the poor, one-third for the church and one-third for the fiscal, besides paying the injured and wounded man for his pain, loss of time and the surgeon's fee, as an example to other such turbulent persons. Thus done and executed, the 28th of January, at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Willem Gilfoordt, an Englishman, at present a prisoner and charged with having willfully ravaged a young girl of about ten years of age.

The said prisoner being closely examined in court denies everything and says that being drunk he signed a bond in favor of Ritchert Clof, without owing him anything, as he was told some time after the signing took place by Jan Hadduwe, he having, owing to his drunkeness, no knowledge thereof and having forgotten the same.

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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.