Cape Council of Policy
103
1657-01-27
Minute details
- Entry number
- 103
- Date
- 1657-01-27
- Year
- 1657
English translation
The following request is presented by the following suppliers, with the following words:
'Aen d' Ed. Lord My Lord Joan van Riebeeck Commander of 't Fort de Goede Hoope &a. aen d' Caep de Boa Esperance:'
'Distinguished with all due respect, and due respect to Abraham Gabbema and Gerrit Ralant, how they are Suppliers by order of you Ed. A client orders his services to be taken into account for his pay comptoire, but as is customary in India, those who are employed in writing are entitled to enjoy it, trusting it to his own Ed. to be aware, and as if the suppliers themselves could not reach it before you Ed. to have consent to do so, although they have not yet done any services to the petitioners, worthy of their regard, but hoping (if God the Lord grants them health and life to earn it), that the petitioners turn to You, diligently requesting and praying Your Honor that You I beg her to favor and endow her with the aforementioned allowance, upon the promise that the petitioners will treat her as honorable persons should and are obligated to do, which, according to the signature of ABRAHAM GABBEMA and GERRIT RALANT.316
In view of the fact that the same reasonable hand of writing, etc., and that it had been collected due to a defect in the scribes or copiers of Princess Royael and Vogelsangh, since that time here at the pay-office, as otherwise used and found to be of good diligence, etc., it is understood that the petitioners to grant the request, and to allow them, from the beginning of February, to also receive, according to Indian custom, the ordinary assistant's allowance and subsidy, on the trust that they, as honest servants, will bear the more diligently in their service for the Holy Company.
And in order that one here and another would not have to look for their food on their own and some from others, but that they might be treated to something better and in finer order than has been possible up to now for their food money, it has also been approved to let them eat at a general table after the Batavian manner, under the supervision of the bookkeeper Roeloff de Man, together with him and the assistant Caspar van Weede, in order that everything may go smoothly, that for the service of the table and kitchen etc., one of Comps. will be added according to Indian custom. The boys and table goods, as appropriate, as well as all their food, cooked and roasted by the Commander's cook, who must cook for the sick, and this for the aforementioned four breasts of the pen without delay, with a companion.
And to store and seal their butter, cheese, olive oil, vinegar, table goods, etc., a suitable casket or box will be provided, as well as a portion of the food money, butter, cheese, etc. For dessert, a glass of wine may sometimes be left over for comfort and relief, with which (also in accordance with Batavian customs, as mentioned above) it will be supplemented with fairly hard bread, barley, peat, and stockfish, in order to maintain a fine, honest table and meal.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] CASPAR VAN WEEDE, Secrets. 1657.
'Aen d' Ed. Lord My Lord Joan van Riebeeck Commander of 't Fort de Goede Hoope &a. aen d' Caep de Boa Esperance:'
'Distinguished with all due respect, and due respect to Abraham Gabbema and Gerrit Ralant, how they are Suppliers by order of you Ed. A client orders his services to be taken into account for his pay comptoire, but as is customary in India, those who are employed in writing are entitled to enjoy it, trusting it to his own Ed. to be aware, and as if the suppliers themselves could not reach it before you Ed. to have consent to do so, although they have not yet done any services to the petitioners, worthy of their regard, but hoping (if God the Lord grants them health and life to earn it), that the petitioners turn to You, diligently requesting and praying Your Honor that You I beg her to favor and endow her with the aforementioned allowance, upon the promise that the petitioners will treat her as honorable persons should and are obligated to do, which, according to the signature of ABRAHAM GABBEMA and GERRIT RALANT.316
In view of the fact that the same reasonable hand of writing, etc., and that it had been collected due to a defect in the scribes or copiers of Princess Royael and Vogelsangh, since that time here at the pay-office, as otherwise used and found to be of good diligence, etc., it is understood that the petitioners to grant the request, and to allow them, from the beginning of February, to also receive, according to Indian custom, the ordinary assistant's allowance and subsidy, on the trust that they, as honest servants, will bear the more diligently in their service for the Holy Company.
And in order that one here and another would not have to look for their food on their own and some from others, but that they might be treated to something better and in finer order than has been possible up to now for their food money, it has also been approved to let them eat at a general table after the Batavian manner, under the supervision of the bookkeeper Roeloff de Man, together with him and the assistant Caspar van Weede, in order that everything may go smoothly, that for the service of the table and kitchen etc., one of Comps. will be added according to Indian custom. The boys and table goods, as appropriate, as well as all their food, cooked and roasted by the Commander's cook, who must cook for the sick, and this for the aforementioned four breasts of the pen without delay, with a companion.
And to store and seal their butter, cheese, olive oil, vinegar, table goods, etc., a suitable casket or box will be provided, as well as a portion of the food money, butter, cheese, etc. For dessert, a glass of wine may sometimes be left over for comfort and relief, with which (also in accordance with Batavian customs, as mentioned above) it will be supplemented with fairly hard bread, barley, peat, and stockfish, in order to maintain a fine, honest table and meal.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] CASPAR VAN WEEDE, Secrets. 1657.
Original Dutch transcription
Door navolgende supplianten gepresenteert wordende onderstaende request luijdende van woorde als volght:
‘Aen d’ Ed. Heer Mijn Heer Joan van Riebeeck Commandeur van ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope &a. aen d’ Caep de Boa Esperance:’
‘Verthoonen met alle behoorlijcke reverentie, ende schuldige eerbiedigheijt Abraham Gabbema ende Gerrit Ralant hoe dat sij supplianten door ordre van U Ed. aen lant g’ordonneert sijn, haer diensten ter soldijecomptoire waer te nemen, doch alsoo in India gebruijckelijck is, dat de geene, die ter penne gebruijckt worden, costgelt genieten, vertrouwende ‘t selve Sijne Ed. wel bewust te sijn, ende alsoo de supplianten aen ‘t selve niet cunnen geraecken ten sij alvooren U Ed. consent daer toe te hebben, alhoewel sij supplianten als noch geene diensten hebben gedaen, diens waerdigh, maer hopende (bij aldien haer Godt de Heere gesontheijt ende leven geefft ‘t selve te verdienen), Soo is dat de supplianten haer keeren aen UEd., U. Ed. oitmoedighlijck versoeckende ende biddende dat UEd. gelieffte sij, haer te favoriseeren ende te begunstigen met ‘t voorsz costgelt toe te leggen op beloffte dat de supplianten haer soodanigh sullen comporteren, als eerlijcke personen behooren ende schuldigh sijn te doen, ‘t welck doende &a., was geteijkent, ABRAHAM GABBEMA ende GERRIT RALANT.316 ‘
Op ‘t welcke ingesien der selver redelijceke ogde hant van schrijven &a., ende dat sijluijden door mancquement van schrijvers offte copieerders van de Princes Roijael ende Vogelsangh gelicht wesende, sedert dien tijt alhier ter soldijecomptoire als andersints sijn gebruijckt ende bevonden van goede naersticheijt &a., soo is verstaen de supplianten haer versoeck toe te staen, ende van primo Februarij toecomende volgens ‘t Indise gebruijck317 mede te laten genieten het ordinaire adsistents-costgelt ende subsidie op vertrouwen de selve haer als eerlijcke borsten te naerstiger in hunnen dienst voor d’ E. Compe. sullen dragen.
Ende op dat niet d’ eene hier d’ ander op sijn selven ende sommige bij andere souden behoeven haer cost te soecken maer wat beter ende in fraijer ordre als tot dato noch wel is cunnen vallen voor haer costgelt mogen werden getracteert, soo is oocq goetgevonden deselve onder opsicht van den boeckhouder Roeloff de Man beneffens hem ende den adsistent Caspar van Weede na de Bataviase maniere aen een generale tafel te laten eeten, ten eijnde alles ordentelijck moge toegaen, des hun oocq tot dienst van de tafel ende keucken &a., na ‘t Indische gebruijck sal toegevought worden een van Comps. jongens en taefelgoet als nae behooren, mitsgaders al haer eeten gekoockt ende gebraden worden, van des Commandeurs kocq, die doch voor de siecken koocken moet, ende dit voor de gemelte 4 borsten van de pen sonder verleth met eenen mede wel sal cunnen waernemen.
Ende om haer boter, kaes, olij, asijn ende tafelgoet &a. te bergen ende af te sluijten sal hun een bequaem cas off kisjen beschickt mitsgaders oock eens partinente reecke. gehouden worden offer van ‘t costgelt beneffens boter en kaes &a. tot naspijs over tafel somtijts mede een dronck wijn sal cunnen overschieten tot soulaes ende behulp van ‘t welcke deselve (mede volgens de Bataviase costuijme als vooren) sal toegevought worden, vrij hard broot, gort, erten ende stockvis, omme alsoo een fraije, eerlijcke taeffel ende maeltijt te mogen houden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] CASPAR VAN WEEDE, Secrets. 1657.
‘Aen d’ Ed. Heer Mijn Heer Joan van Riebeeck Commandeur van ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope &a. aen d’ Caep de Boa Esperance:’
‘Verthoonen met alle behoorlijcke reverentie, ende schuldige eerbiedigheijt Abraham Gabbema ende Gerrit Ralant hoe dat sij supplianten door ordre van U Ed. aen lant g’ordonneert sijn, haer diensten ter soldijecomptoire waer te nemen, doch alsoo in India gebruijckelijck is, dat de geene, die ter penne gebruijckt worden, costgelt genieten, vertrouwende ‘t selve Sijne Ed. wel bewust te sijn, ende alsoo de supplianten aen ‘t selve niet cunnen geraecken ten sij alvooren U Ed. consent daer toe te hebben, alhoewel sij supplianten als noch geene diensten hebben gedaen, diens waerdigh, maer hopende (bij aldien haer Godt de Heere gesontheijt ende leven geefft ‘t selve te verdienen), Soo is dat de supplianten haer keeren aen UEd., U. Ed. oitmoedighlijck versoeckende ende biddende dat UEd. gelieffte sij, haer te favoriseeren ende te begunstigen met ‘t voorsz costgelt toe te leggen op beloffte dat de supplianten haer soodanigh sullen comporteren, als eerlijcke personen behooren ende schuldigh sijn te doen, ‘t welck doende &a., was geteijkent, ABRAHAM GABBEMA ende GERRIT RALANT.316 ‘
Op ‘t welcke ingesien der selver redelijceke ogde hant van schrijven &a., ende dat sijluijden door mancquement van schrijvers offte copieerders van de Princes Roijael ende Vogelsangh gelicht wesende, sedert dien tijt alhier ter soldijecomptoire als andersints sijn gebruijckt ende bevonden van goede naersticheijt &a., soo is verstaen de supplianten haer versoeck toe te staen, ende van primo Februarij toecomende volgens ‘t Indise gebruijck317 mede te laten genieten het ordinaire adsistents-costgelt ende subsidie op vertrouwen de selve haer als eerlijcke borsten te naerstiger in hunnen dienst voor d’ E. Compe. sullen dragen.
Ende op dat niet d’ eene hier d’ ander op sijn selven ende sommige bij andere souden behoeven haer cost te soecken maer wat beter ende in fraijer ordre als tot dato noch wel is cunnen vallen voor haer costgelt mogen werden getracteert, soo is oocq goetgevonden deselve onder opsicht van den boeckhouder Roeloff de Man beneffens hem ende den adsistent Caspar van Weede na de Bataviase maniere aen een generale tafel te laten eeten, ten eijnde alles ordentelijck moge toegaen, des hun oocq tot dienst van de tafel ende keucken &a., na ‘t Indische gebruijck sal toegevought worden een van Comps. jongens en taefelgoet als nae behooren, mitsgaders al haer eeten gekoockt ende gebraden worden, van des Commandeurs kocq, die doch voor de siecken koocken moet, ende dit voor de gemelte 4 borsten van de pen sonder verleth met eenen mede wel sal cunnen waernemen.
Ende om haer boter, kaes, olij, asijn ende tafelgoet &a. te bergen ende af te sluijten sal hun een bequaem cas off kisjen beschickt mitsgaders oock eens partinente reecke. gehouden worden offer van ‘t costgelt beneffens boter en kaes &a. tot naspijs over tafel somtijts mede een dronck wijn sal cunnen overschieten tot soulaes ende behulp van ‘t welcke deselve (mede volgens de Bataviase costuijme als vooren) sal toegevought worden, vrij hard broot, gort, erten ende stockvis, omme alsoo een fraije, eerlijcke taeffel ende maeltijt te mogen houden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1657.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1657.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] CASPAR VAN WEEDE, Secrets. 1657.