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selves against the aforesaid woman's will and consent." After they had eaten they proceeded to Joris Wolsy's house where he was entertain ing his good friends, Ely Douty and Ritzert Comewel. With blows and violence Jasper and Hendrick forced themselves into the house; "demanding drink, so that the above named, Joris Wolsy and with him Ely Douty and Ritzel Cornewel, had enough to do to put them out of the house." From there they visited the old house, formerly the tav ern, and now the dwelling of a goodly old burgher, Herr Carel Van Brugge. Here "they committed the same force and vio lence, demanding drink from the above named Carel. Though Carel Van Brugge said he did not tap, and kept no taphouse, and that they should go away, they disre garded this. They continued their violence in a manner indecent to be mentioned, so that the above named, Carel Van Brugge, assisted by the aforesaid, Ely Douty and Ritzel Cornewel, had enough to do, before they could get Hendrick Janzen and his associate out of the house, not without tear ing a flap or fall of his unmentionables, which they removed in the shoving out of his body." Not content with this, the precious pair then cut loose generally. They proceeded "with foul and bad words, unfit to be named" to abuse the Domine Drisius "and other honorables and respectable persons." They assaulted "one Huybert Verschie," and when the mate who had been sent to fetch them back to the ship came across them at last near "the Weighscales," they threat ened him with a knife so that he was forced to flee for his life. By this time the whole town was aroused. As usual, the last man to appear on the scene was his Honor, the schout. With the help of half of the town the Honorable Pieter marched Jasper and Hendrick away to prison. There they sat for a day or two while the town hummed

and buzzed with the excitment of it all. Then these poor bewildered sailors were brought into court. In the presence of the schout, the herren burgomasters, and the schepens, they were interrogated, and cross-interrogated. "Of course, they did it." "They admitted it all." "They said again they did it." "Then they answered yes to everything." "Why did they do it?" "Well, they just did it, that was all." Such simplicity puzzled the good judges. They adjourned to think it over. Some one had a brilliant idea. They would enter a plea for each of the offenders. So formally they caused to be entered on the Court Records for each in answer to the respective complaints that, " He answers, he has nothing against it, requesting mercy not justice." Upon this plea the Honorable Court gave judgment "all this ought not, and cannot be tolerated or allowed in a well regulated place and city such as this is, where justice is administered, but must be corrected and punished as an example to other violent and disorderly persons, so that this city and place may be purged of all such. There fore the court of this city, administering justice in the name, and on behalf, of the High and Mighty Lord States General of of the United Netherlands, the Honorable Lord Directors of the Privileged West India Company and the Honorable Director General and Council of New Netherlands, decree, as they hereby do," that the above named Jasper Abrahamzen and Hendrick Janzen, for their committed violence, hos tility, and villainies, shall be taken to the place where criminal justice is usually executed, and be there fastened to a stake, severely scourged, and banished for the term of twenty-five years out of this city's jurisdiction; and further in the costs and mises of justice, which each prisoner shall pay before he is released. Boston, Mass., January, 1907.