The Traitor, Jerom Cornelis, Was So Much Elevated With The Success
That Had Hitherto Attended His Villainy, That He Immediately Began
To Fancy All Difficulties Were Over, And Gave A Loose To His Vicious
Inclinations In Every Respect.
He ordered clothes to be made of
rich stuffs that had been saved, for himself and his troop, and
having chosen out of them a company of guards, he ordered them to
have scarlet coats, with a double lace of gold or silver.
There
were two minister's daughters among the women, one of whom he took
for his own mistress, gave the second to a favourite of his, and
ordered that the other three women should be common to the whole
troop. He afterwards drew up a set of regulations, which were to be
the laws of his new principality, taking to himself the style and
title of Captain-General, and obliging his party to sign an act, or
instrument, by which they acknowledged him as such. These points
once settled, he resolved to carry on the war. He first of all
embarked on board two shallops twenty-two men, well armed, with
orders to destroy Mr. Weybhays and his company; and on their
miscarrying, he undertook a like expedition with thirty-seven men,
in which, however, he had no better success; for Mr. Weybhays, with
his people, though armed only with staves with nails drove into
their heads, advanced even into the water to meet them, and after a
brisk engagement compelled these murderers to retire.
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