Cape Council of Policy
1017
1698-09-25
Minute details
- Entry number
- 1017
- Date
- 1698-09-25
- Year
- 1698
English translation
Presentibus omnibus.
At a meeting by the Ede. Lord Governor issues the statement below, showing the decay and obsoleteness of the Comps. vessel, the Jupiter, at least moored in the Soute River, reading from word to word as follows:
'We underst. Marten de Jeught, skipper on the ship Driebergen, and Matthijs Cool, skipper on the ship Eenhoorn, provided that: Jan Brommert, equipment master of these gouvernements, all employed by E.Compe. modestly, explain how we met together on September 14 this year through the Ede. Lord Governor Espres56 has committed to reviewing the E.Comps. vessel named the Jupiter, moored in the South River, and after careful investigation, we found the vessel to be completely useless and rotten due to its age, as the bolts were not a quarter of an inch thick, and the timbers and stays were completely rotten, so that no nails could be held in them, making it unfit to be rebuilt or made fit for further service with the Company; therefore, in the truest sense of the word, we have certified these with our usual signature. Undersigned: Cape of Good Hope, September 15, 1698, and was submerged. Marten de Jeught, Mattheys Cool, J. Brommert.'
This is how the matter has been discussed after a mature consultation, to understand the reasons and motivations contained in the above explanation, to understand them consonantly and to resolve them, to avert and scrap the sailed vessel to avoid all complications and accidents.57
Thus, and decided in the Castle of Cabo, Good Hope is arrested on that day and years to come.
[Signed:] S.V. COUPLE.
[Signed:] S. ELSEVIER.
[Signed:] J. BLESIUS.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] HCUS. MUNCKERUS, 1698.
[Signed:] WM. CORSSENAAR.
[Signed:] JNS. SWELLENGREBEL.
At a meeting by the Ede. Lord Governor issues the statement below, showing the decay and obsoleteness of the Comps. vessel, the Jupiter, at least moored in the Soute River, reading from word to word as follows:
'We underst. Marten de Jeught, skipper on the ship Driebergen, and Matthijs Cool, skipper on the ship Eenhoorn, provided that: Jan Brommert, equipment master of these gouvernements, all employed by E.Compe. modestly, explain how we met together on September 14 this year through the Ede. Lord Governor Espres56 has committed to reviewing the E.Comps. vessel named the Jupiter, moored in the South River, and after careful investigation, we found the vessel to be completely useless and rotten due to its age, as the bolts were not a quarter of an inch thick, and the timbers and stays were completely rotten, so that no nails could be held in them, making it unfit to be rebuilt or made fit for further service with the Company; therefore, in the truest sense of the word, we have certified these with our usual signature. Undersigned: Cape of Good Hope, September 15, 1698, and was submerged. Marten de Jeught, Mattheys Cool, J. Brommert.'
This is how the matter has been discussed after a mature consultation, to understand the reasons and motivations contained in the above explanation, to understand them consonantly and to resolve them, to avert and scrap the sailed vessel to avoid all complications and accidents.57
Thus, and decided in the Castle of Cabo, Good Hope is arrested on that day and years to come.
[Signed:] S.V. COUPLE.
[Signed:] S. ELSEVIER.
[Signed:] J. BLESIUS.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] HCUS. MUNCKERUS, 1698.
[Signed:] WM. CORSSENAAR.
[Signed:] JNS. SWELLENGREBEL.
Original Dutch transcription
Presentibus omnibus.
Ter vergaderinge door de Ede. Heer Gouverneur g’exhibeert sijnde de onderstaande verclaringe, vertonende het verval en veroudertheijt van ‘t Comps. vaartuijgh, de Jupiter , althans in de Souterivier geanckert leggende, luijdende van woorde tot woorde soo volght:
‘Wij onderges. Marten de Jeught, schipper op ‘t schip Driebergen , en Matthijs Cool, schipper op het schip Eenhoorn , mitsgs. Jan Brommert, equipagiemeester deses gouvernements, alle in dienst der E.Compe. bescheijden, verclaren mits desen hoe wij gesamentlijck op den 14 September deses jaars door de Ede. Heer Gouverneur espres56 gecommitteert sijnde tot het besightigen van des E.Comps. vaartuijgh, genaamt de Jupiter , leggende g’anckert in de Souterivier en nae nauwkeurige informatie genomen hebbende, bevonden het selve vaartuijgh door sijn oudheijt t’ eenmael onnut en verrot te zijn, alsoo de bouts geen quartier duijm dick en sijn, en de inhoute en oplangers t’ eenemael verrot, soo datter geen spijkers inhouden connen, soo dat het selve onbequaem is om weder te connen vertimmeren of in staat te brengen om de Compe. meer dienst te connen doen; dies in teecken der waarheijt, hebben dese met onse gewoonlicke handteeckeningh becrachtight. Onderstond: Cabo de Goede Hoop den 15 September ao. 1698 en was ondert. Marten de Jeught, Mattheys Cool, J. Brommert.’
Soo is dan de saak nae rijpe raatsplegingh in omvrage geleijt sijnde, om reedenen en motiven in de bovenstaande verclaringe vervath, consonantelijck verstaen ende geresolveert, tot voorcominge ook van alle periculen en ongelucken, het geseijde vaartuijgh aff te leggen en te sloopen.57
Aldus g’arresteert ende beslooten in ‘t Casteel van Cabo de Goede Hoop op dach en jaare voors.
[Signed:] S.V. STEL.
[Signed:] S. ELSEVIER.
[Signed:] J. BLESIUS.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] HCUS. MUNCKERUS, 1698.
[Signed:] WM. CORSSENAAR.
[Signed:] JNS. SWELLENGREBEL.
Ter vergaderinge door de Ede. Heer Gouverneur g’exhibeert sijnde de onderstaande verclaringe, vertonende het verval en veroudertheijt van ‘t Comps. vaartuijgh, de Jupiter , althans in de Souterivier geanckert leggende, luijdende van woorde tot woorde soo volght:
‘Wij onderges. Marten de Jeught, schipper op ‘t schip Driebergen , en Matthijs Cool, schipper op het schip Eenhoorn , mitsgs. Jan Brommert, equipagiemeester deses gouvernements, alle in dienst der E.Compe. bescheijden, verclaren mits desen hoe wij gesamentlijck op den 14 September deses jaars door de Ede. Heer Gouverneur espres56 gecommitteert sijnde tot het besightigen van des E.Comps. vaartuijgh, genaamt de Jupiter , leggende g’anckert in de Souterivier en nae nauwkeurige informatie genomen hebbende, bevonden het selve vaartuijgh door sijn oudheijt t’ eenmael onnut en verrot te zijn, alsoo de bouts geen quartier duijm dick en sijn, en de inhoute en oplangers t’ eenemael verrot, soo datter geen spijkers inhouden connen, soo dat het selve onbequaem is om weder te connen vertimmeren of in staat te brengen om de Compe. meer dienst te connen doen; dies in teecken der waarheijt, hebben dese met onse gewoonlicke handteeckeningh becrachtight. Onderstond: Cabo de Goede Hoop den 15 September ao. 1698 en was ondert. Marten de Jeught, Mattheys Cool, J. Brommert.’
Soo is dan de saak nae rijpe raatsplegingh in omvrage geleijt sijnde, om reedenen en motiven in de bovenstaande verclaringe vervath, consonantelijck verstaen ende geresolveert, tot voorcominge ook van alle periculen en ongelucken, het geseijde vaartuijgh aff te leggen en te sloopen.57
Aldus g’arresteert ende beslooten in ‘t Casteel van Cabo de Goede Hoop op dach en jaare voors.
[Signed:] S.V. STEL.
[Signed:] S. ELSEVIER.
[Signed:] J. BLESIUS.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] HCUS. MUNCKERUS, 1698.
[Signed:] WM. CORSSENAAR.
[Signed:] JNS. SWELLENGREBEL.