Document: Sentence of Jean Seno (Senaut)

At the session in Fort Amsterdam, present: the director-general and high council, and the mayors and schepens of the city of New Amsterdam, have seen the charge of Fiscal Cornelis van Thienhooven against Jan Seno de St. Garmain, presently a prisoner, who is accused by the fiscal for having stolen many hogs at various times from the woods (being in New Netherland the common pasture for livestock); also, it was discovered from the prisoner's own confession and the honorable magistrates' report that Jan Seno confessed, without torture or irons, to have shot and stolen twelve hogs in the woods; however, it was during the time of the war between us and the English,[221] who were stealing horses from the Dutch, thus he, Jan Garmain, says that he thought he was free to kill the English hogs and take them for himself. Therefore, the director-general and high council, and the mayors and schepens, considering the past animosity between us and the English,