DUTCH PREDIKANTS OF CEYLON.

(Continued).

Isaac van der Bank admitted to the ministry by the
classis of Walcheren, left for the East Indies on the 1 August
1686, and arrived in Ceylon in the following year. He was
stationed at Colombo where he died in 1703 or 1704. In
1695 he was removed from the ministry in order to take up
duties as Rector in the Singalese Seminary.

Henricus Bongard or Bongart, born at Essen, was
recommended by Professor C. de Maetius of Utrecht and
was appointed by the Directors of the East India Company
on the 16 December 1647. The classis of Walcheren sent
him out as predikant. He was to receive a salary of
400 guilders and bound himself for ten years. He embarked
in January 1648 in the "Hof van Zeeland," experienced
severe storms off the English coast at the risk of his life
and assisted in quelling a mutiny. In August he arrived in
the Indies. In the following month (10 September 1648) at
Batavia, he married Helena Coster a young lady of Houten.
He was stationed in Ceylon and was at Point-de- Galle the
colleague of Philip Baldaeus. He died in 1671.

Ludovicus Boogaard or Boogaart from Flanders, born
in 1634, studied at Leyden and was sent out by the classis
of Walcheren. He arrived in Java on the 16 August 1660
in the ship " de Vereenigde Nederlanden " and received a
call to Ceylon and was stationed at Colombo 30 August 1660.
The year 1623 in Buddingh's list is wrong.

Lucas Bosch Ab Osch (van Os) or simply L. Bosch was
born at Kuilenburg in 1646, and was when 15 years old
a student at Utrecht. He served as proponent at Renoy
July 1670, at Everdingen in July 1672. He sailed in the
ship " Betuwe" to the Indies and reached the roads of
Batavia on the 5 January 1675. In the same year he was
sent to Malacca and remained there scarcely a month, then
left for Ceylon and was stationed at Colombo from the
18 January to the 30 March 1676, and thereafter at
Negapatam on the coast of Coromandel 1677—82. On his
return to Batavia, permission was granted him to bring
his family back from Coromandel and to repatriate. Having
arrived in the Netherlands he received a call to Wieringer-
waard, then a new church in September 16P3, was confirmed
in his appointment in August 1684 and thereafter left for

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