Your Honors' servants and subjects, the Schout and Schepensof the village aforesaid.
Before the ensuing winter had passed, the schepens found their labors sufficiently arduous to justify an appeal to the Director, which resulted in the appointment of a schout, or constable.
At last, in 1652, Governor Stuyvesant was instructed to have a schout, two burgomasters and five schepens "elected according to the custom of the metropolis of Fatherland.
He was living here in 1674, when the Dutch for the second time were in possession of New Amsterdam, which they then called New Orange, and was appointed one of the schepens or magistrates for the outside people or those beyond the wall.
In reply, says the record, the "Burgomasters, and Schepens .
On February 10, pending the decision of the higher court, van Beeck petitioned the burgomasters and schepens "that his bans with Maria Varleth may be entered and be properly proclaimed here" in New Amsterdam.
Upon this report the decision of the burgomasters and schepens was based, though they resolved to keep the judgment in "abeyance" until "requested" by the parties to the suit.
Every stout trencherman hastened to the standard; nay, some of the most corpulent burgomasters and schepens joined the expedition as a corps de reserve, only to be called into action when the sacking commenced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schepens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
