Document: Sentence of Hendrick Jansen Grever, Martin Roseboom and others who had cut up and burnt a number of the city palisades

Cornelis van Tienhoven, fiscal, plaintiff, against Hendr. Jansen Grever, defendant.

The plaintiff demands justice for some palisades cut down by the defendant on the 15th of this month. [ ] palisades were erected for the defense of this city [ ] Amsterdam.

The defendant replies that he had hauled 15 palisades from the strand that had [ ] down by the ice floes. To which the burgomaster Crigier had given him orders.

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Grever had [ ] and acknowledged to have burned [ Hendrick [ ]Luycas [ ] Hendr. Siljaq [ ] Marten Roose[ ]totaling f [ ]

Although this is a deed of extremely grave consequence and ramification that [ ] not be tolerated in lands where justice prevails, and is worth being held up as an example to others; whereas it has been found that the burgomaster gave no orders to do so, much less offered such, however the lords high councilors having taken notice of the sharp and bitter cold, and that the wood in the Corps de Guarde has been consumed, and no more can be fetched because the rivers are closed up, condemn the above-named persons to replace the 63 palisades with 100 of the same, which they will cut in the woods and bring here at no charge.