Document: Sentence of Andries Matthias

Whereas Andries Matthias from Pom [ ] ,[221] presently a prisoner, was seen on 28 October, last past, at the house of a militia sergeant named Daniel Litschoe, in a violent manner, beating and attacking with an unsheathed knife in his quarters his master and commander, Mr. Hendrick van Elswyck, factor on behalf of the laudable Crown of Sweden, so that those who were present had to save the aforesaid factor and prevent the evil intentions of the aforesaid Andries. The aforesaid Andries, not being satisfied with this, then cursed in a base manner the aforesaid factor and the Swedish nation in general, saying, "You Swedes are all a bunch of scoundrels and beggars," and other base profanities; in addition, while escaping from the fiscal over the clapboards[222] onto the Heere Straet, Andries Matthias pointed out his backside to the fiscal and the servants of the court by lifting his leg and slapping it, as can be seen in more detail in the declarations pertaining hereto. Furthermore, the aforesaid Andries Mattias was publicly punished here at the roadstead in 1648 for various crimes. Afterwards, not having improved,