Document: Order to imprison Claes Bordingh

In council, present: the lord director-general [ ] Mr. de Sille, Mr. C. van Werckhoven and La Montagne [ ] .Cor. van Thienhoven, fiscal, by virtue of his office, plaintiff against [ Claes ] Bordingh, defendant; the plaintiff submits his written complaint that on [ ] November 1653, in his official capacity, he had discovered some contraband goods in the defendant's yacht named het Juffroutien; namely, a keg of gunpowder and some staves of lead, which he requests be confiscated according to the ordinance, and that the defendant declare from whom he had bought the same or [ ] . The defendant acknowledges that the plaintiff found the gunpowder and lead in his yacht, unloaded it and brought it to shore; also, that it had come to this country aboard one of the present ships, de Coninck Salomon or Gelderse Blom; and he says that he is not obligated to say from whom he had bought it.He is asked once again from whom he bought it; he answers as before.The defendant remaining obstinate, in spite of verbal commands and serious warnings, and stating in abusive language that he would not say from whom the confiscated goods were bought, the honorable director-general and high council order that he be locked up in the council chamber until evening in order to consider the matter, and by further disobedience the plaintiff is permitted and authorized to take him then into custody and to persuade him as much as he sees fit. Done in Amsterdam, New Netherland, 8 December 1653.