Background - continued
12/6/1693 ... sailed the ships Berkel, 't Hov van Ilpendam, Sirjansland, Pampus, Oosthuysen, Voorschoten, Purmer, Oosterland, Schiebroek, Emenes and the English ship Benjamin ...
23/10 Resolutions ... since foreign and especially English ships ... frequently manage to carry away with them Servants of the Company, as also freemen and their servants [see ‘Lent*’] ... resolved to order the freemen that in future they shall not sell or barter to such ships ... corn, whether ground or not, wine, firewood, sheep or any other four-legged beasts ... but refer them to the Market ... and on pain of death shall not tell the folk of foreign ships ... that such goods as they ask for are readily available ...
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