Document: Protest of the skippers of the Bear and Brindled Cow for detention of their ships

21 October

Yesterday at the session a certain protest was submitted by Cornelis Willemsen de Beer, skipper on the ship de Beer and Pieter Jansen Ainilius, skipper on the ship de Bontecoe, objecting to all the expenses, damages, and losses that they have suffered since last September 23d through this date because of their detention (so they claim); after due deliberation the director general and councilors respond that they are well informed that it has been only 4 days since the protesters’ goods have been loaded and that as of today they have neither balanced accounts with the merchants nor signed proper bills of lading, nor paid their recognition fee to the company, nor settled their accounts; all of which having been done, the director general and councilors shall then not detain the protesters even three days. Ady ut supra.