Annetje Cornells represents with very great humihty that she hath divers times requested that the house belonging to her and her children from God & Nature may be given up to her, As she is very siclily and beladen with the Quartan Ague, having been obliged the whole winter to sleep in tlie garret under the roof of the liouse, whicii truly is a very hard thing to happen to an old woman, & all this for a drunken and constant prophaner of God's name, a ci-devant Lutheran Preacher, named, as he says Jacobus Fabritius her married but unfaithful husband, who has driven her out of her own house and Chamber wliich she intended for her sou ; which is truly a matter that ought not be tolerated in a place where LaAV is maintained as is tlie Case in this government, the good God be fervently thanked therefor.

The Petitioner therefore humbly beseeches Your Worships to be pleased to order that he dehver up the key of the room witliout delay to the Petit^ And to interdict or forbid him to presume to enter the house any more until further order from

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y^ Worships, on pain of certain arbitrary Correction to be found fitting by Your Worships, the rather as said Fabritius did Yesterday not only use force and violence in said house, but also stole property, which at a proper time shall be proved j whereupon awaiting Your favourable apostille, remains, etc. Apostilled -- The accompanying Petition being considered & read in Court, the Petitioner Annetje Cornells' request is granted and allowed, especially as Jacobus Fabritius hath of himself left the house and, contrary to the previous order & prohibition given him, hath behaved very uncivilly and badly ; & the said Jacobus Fabritius is ordered to deliver up the said key to the Petitioner and not to presume to molest her in any way until the W.