Document: Order to Hendrick Ysbrants to pay duty on sundry articles in his possession

Nicasius de Sille, fiscal, ex officio, plaintiff, against Hendrick Ysbrants van Hassel, tailor’s journeyman, defendant; the plaintiff demands and seeks confiscation of the goods listed below, which he found in the defendant’s chest, without the same having been declared; namely, 12 small copper kettles, 6 small copper saucers, 2 small pieces of Paris gold and silver galon,[i] one piece of gray cloth of about 20 ells. The defendant answered that he was but a poor journeyman and didn’t know that it would come down to that; otherwise, he would have declared it. [several lines lost] Dated as above.