Background - continued
11/8/1668 [Zuyt Polsbroek sailed, with Quaelbergen and family, and Overbeke]
28/11 ... cast anchor in-the roads the new ship the Burgh van Leijden ...
29/11 ... comes in the flute* Elburgh ... had sailed alone from Texel June 20 last with 107 heads ... one man died on the way, the rest in pretty good health ...
3/12 ... comes tacking into the bay a large ‘spiegelschip*’ ... the Eendracht, July 29 this year from the Maas with 306 engaged men ... on the way lost 17 persons, none or few sick ... Informed that two soldiers from the flute Elburgh had been fighting with swords ... one severely wounding the other ... called Andries Godtfried Fleyscher of Neuremburg ... the culpable named Thomas Ert of Oldenburgh took flight inland ... the said patient died ... orders given for the culprit's apprenhension [captured 5/12, sentenced 6/12]
7/12 Comes sailing into the bay ... the ship Casteel van Maidenblick ... Towards 11 o'clock the sentence ... was read to him [Ert, above] and soon after his execution was carried out by ‘harquebuscade’ ...
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