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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Jan Willemsen van Iselstein appears in Court requesting an end of the hundred guilders attached in the hands of Jan Teunissen. Whereupon he was ordered to address the Schout. Bartholdus Maan requests by petition, that David Wessels shall not be granted any pretense or default against him, petitioner, promising, as he shall be absent six or seven days from home, that as quick as Andries Joghimsen shall return, to produce the declaration and to furnish party with copy thereof. Petitioner's request is granted. David Wessels requests by petition that Bartholdus Maan shall be ordered to conform, within four and twenty hours [to the order] dated 16 Sept' last. Petitioner was refused his request, until the arrival of Andries Joghimsen. Allard Anthony requests by petition, that if Pieter Cornelissen van der Veen does not produce his papers against petitioner to day, he shall be excluded from all exceptions and legal provisions as being contumax, and that justice be done on his produced papers according to conclusion. Pieter Cornelissen van der Veen is, for reasons, allowed fourteen days. Pieter Cornelissen Van der Veen requests by petition delay of some Court days to produce his papers made use of in suit against Allard Anthony. Petitioner is granted fourteen days time, and is ordered then to produce his papers punctually, which were used in the suit against Allard Anthony. Schepens Pieter Van Couwenhoven and Joannes Van Brugh are hereby ordered by the presiding Burgomaster, to proceed with the Schout to the house of Jurrien Blanck and inform themselves of the declaration made to the Schout abovenamed. Done, Amsterdam in N. Netherland 29 Octob' 1659. By order of the presiding Burgomaster of the City aforesaid. Joannes Nevius, Secretary. This date 29. Octobr 1659 ap...