Whereon D« Godefridus Dellius is sent for and he is asked if he hath any further letters or documents besides what he had delivered to the Court, especially the Notarial contract dated 20 July 1682 executed in Amsterdam by the Notary PubMc David Staif maker Verlett whereby the Dom* was accepted for the terra of four yearSj beginning as soon as the ship, in whicli he would leave Amsterdam, had been gone to sea outride Texel, and that for the sum of eight himdred guilders a year, payable in Beavers @ 8 gl. each or 600 skepels of Wheat, at the option of s^ Dom: Dellius, besides a free house ; but should he, the Domine marry, his salary should be increased 100 gl. beavers, but as his Reverence was so unfortunate that the ship in which he was to take his passage sailed from Dover on the very day his Reverence arrived in London, so that his Reverence was obliged to return to Holland, and put to sea again last April, with Jan Gorter, witJi whom he is now arrived.

Their Worships find that in further elucidation of said gene

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ral Contract the Agents Rjk^' van Eensselaer & Abel de WoUiY and said Dom^ agreed that his terra of Office shall commence on the day when Henry Bier went last year to sea, as Ins Reverence was then ready to leave ; his term commencing on the 1 5^^ August 168-2 k ending on the Ib^^ August 1686, but with the express condition that his salary shall not date earlier than the day his Reverence put to sea with Skipper Jan Gorter : And whereas we have been advised by letters from our correspondents that his Reverence is not wholly satisfied about his salary being in Beavers or Wheat knowing nothing about such tilings, and. imagines such is greatly to his prejudice, whereupon said Rensselaer & De Wolff have written to us in his behalf, requesting that the payment of his salary may be made as nearly as possible in Holland currency,