Document: Order granting the request of Gerrit van Sweringen to be discharged from the company's service

[The petition of Gerrit van Swieringen, formerly supercargo of the ship Prins Mourits, which was wrecked here, was received, in which he requests to be discharged from the honorable Company’s service, as he intends to make his living here.] Having taken it in consideration, [ also ] that he can do no more duty on the stranded ship Prins Mourits, it was decided, after deliberation: fiat ut petitur. Dated the 16th of April 1657.[i]

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