Document: Order on a petition of the magistrates of Midwout

[At the request of the magistrates of Midwout for assistance by the inhabitants of Breukelen and Amesfoort in cutting and hewing timber to erect] a dwarshuys [1] for the [ exercise of divine service, for which ] they received the permission by a resolution of their honors, the director general [ and council ] in 1654, [ it was, upon the vote being taken, resolved that ] after the celebration of the [ Lord’s Supper now at hand ] a committee of [ the high council ] shall go there with Domine Megapolen- sis. Done at Amsterdam, in New Netherland, ady ut supra.[2]

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