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Baute was released, having—by his own account—revealed nothing to the authorities. It took nearly ten months for the swelling and scarring to subside and for movement to return to his right arm. 73 Baute was eventually exonerated, but increasing harassment and extortion led him to flee the country. In 1627 he exchanged the remainder of his inventory of precious stones for tobacco, cochineal, and other goods, organized a small Spanish ship manned with thirty soldiers, and secretly escaped. 74 At sea the ship was boarded and its crew arrested in Portugal; it was mistaken for a Turkish pirate vessel off the coast of France; and boarded once again by English soldiers before finally arriving in Antwerp. From there Baute continued to Middelburg, where he married into the highest levels of the city's elite and, in 1638, became a director of the WIC. 75 His account is fascinating in its own right, but it also suggests that Baute belongs as much within the tradition of the sixteenth century merchant-adventurers as he does among the more staid representatives of the Dutch elite in the second half of the seventeenth century. 76 In the company's boardroom in Middelburg, where he represented the city’s hooftparticipanten (chief investors), the physical scars on his wrists would have served as a potent reminder of Spanish tyranny. Baute’s attitude towards the company’s business, and towards the revolt in Brazil, could hardly have escaped being colored by this earlier experience. Amsterdam’s delegation—the largest at the meeting, with eight delegates—was led by the renowned geographer and historian Johannes de Laet. 77 Born in Antwerp in 1581, De Laet fled with his family to Amsterdam sometime after 1585 and later established himself in Leiden, mijne gebonden handen tegens mijnen buijk aan, liet sig op eenen bot so plotselijk ter aarden vallen blijvende soo continuelijken treckende, invoegen dat de touwen het vlees tot het been doorsneden hadden.” 73 Ibid., 25–27. 74 Ibid., 40. 75 Nagtglas, “David Baute, een Bladzidje uit de Handelsgeschiedenis der 17de Eeuw.” 76 Kluiver, “David Baute, een Zeeuws Koopman-Avonturier uit de Zeventiende Eeuw.” On the Dutch elite, see Peter Burke, Venice and Amsterdam: A Study of Seventeenth-Century Elites (London: Maurice Temple Smith LTD, 1974). 77 NA 1.01.07, inv.nr. 12564.17, fol. 1. 65
Illustration 6. Portrait of Johannes de Laet. Engraving by J. G. van Bronckhorst, 1642. Iconographisch Bureau, Den Haag. De Laet was a scholar and Director in the Amsterdam chamber of the West India Company. 66
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Illustr<strong>at</strong>ion 6. Portrait of Johannes de Laet. Engraving by J. G. van<br />
Bronckhorst, 1642. Iconographisch Bureau, Den Haag. De Laet was a<br />
scholar and Director in the Amsterdam chamber of the West India Company.<br />
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