were to “enjoy the privilege of the Augsburg Confession and [have] a person to instruct them therein”; none of the officers, who might have contracted debts in behalf of the crown or of the company, should “be arrested on account of them, within the jurisdiction of the general [director] and finally Rising was to have full liberty to “inquire into the behavior of Skute and other officers during the surrender of the Fort on the Sandhook,” and the capitulation should take effect on September 15 (25). “A secret article” was also included, which, however, Rising maintained was not secret, but made with the knowledge of his people and signed by Stuyvesant “in their presence on the place of parole.” According to this “secret and separate article,” Rising and Elswick were to be landed either in England or in France, and Stuyvesant promised “to advance to Director Rising either in cash or in bills of exchange the sum of £300 Flanders.” Property of equivalent value, belonging to the Swedish crown and the New Sweden Company, were to be mortgaged and left in the hands of the general director against receipt, and Rising promised to repay the sum at Amsterdam within six months. In the forenoon of September 15 (25) the two governors again repaired to the place of parole. The articles “were re-examined and found to be correct,” whereupon two copies were signed, and New Sweden was a Swedish colony no more. At three o’clock in the afternoon the little garrison (“about thirty men”) marched out of the fort “with beating drums, playing of fifes, flying banners, burning matches, musketballs in their mouths and hand and sidearms.”[35] The Dutch soldiers took possession of Christina as soon as the Swedes had departed, and raised their flag above it. The Swedish soldiers were quartered in the houses on Timber Island, but the officers were lodged in their own dwellings in the fort.