Cape Council of Policy
17
1652-12-09
Minute details
- Entry number
- 17
- Date
- 1652-12-09
- Year
- 1652
English translation
Although Martyn de Haes from Lier was a midshipman in the service of d’ E. Compe. here, he did not hesitate nor hesitate, above our frequently issued iterative warnings and issued placards, between the 4th and 5th of this month, to walk from his sentry post into Comps. gardens at night,37 and steal a great many turnips there. Likewise, the next morning (apparently from fear of well-deserved punishment) he went into the woods: and moreover, during the night after that, he climbed into the carpenter's house just outside the fort, where 3 or 4 carpenters' chests were broken open by force, and most of the goods were stolen from them: as well as this, several times in various diversions, about which, in view of the Even his pious parents were corrected each time with very civil punishment, and were present again in the fort, being put to examination: also, his crimes having been brought before him, all of them openly and without any contradiction confessed, out of sheer desperation, and because every day at work he had been reprimanded for a thief,38 which, however, all resulted in very bad consequences, which should not be endured, but punished rigorously and without simulation, as a deterrent to others. This, however, has been approved and understood because our Council here (because the hunting departure to the Bay of Saldanha) is very weak, and the same It is a serious matter to handle for us alone, to keep it in the ice until the arrival of the respective return fleet from India in 8 or 9 weeks, apparently to be parried, and then to deliver it into the hands of the Commander of the same and the accompanying Council.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1652.
[Signed:] PAULUS PETKAUW.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1652.
[Signed:] PAULUS PETKAUW.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Alhoewel Martyn de Haes uijt de Lier adelborst in dienst van d’ E. Compe. alhier bescheijden, sich niet ontsien noch geschroomt heeft boven onse meenichmael gedane iterative waerschouwinge ende g’emaneerde placcaten, tusschen 4 ende 5en deser36 des nachts van sijn schiltwacht aff in Comps.tuijnen37 te lopen ende aldaer menichte rapen te stelen, Insgelijckx ‘s anderen-daeghs smorgens (apparent uijt vrese van wel verdiende straffe) ‘t bosswaert in: ende daerenboven noch snachts daer nae geclommen in ‘t timmerhuijs even buijten ‘t fort staende, alwaer 3 a 4 timmerluijdens kisten met gewelt opgebroocken, ende meest alles ‘t goet daer uijt gestolen: mitsgaders voordesen meermalen in diverse diverijen sigh verlopen heeft, waer over ten aensien van des selffs vrome ouders telckens met seer civile straffe is gecorrigeert, ende jegenwoordigh wederom in ‘t fort gecomen wesende ter examinatie gestelt: mitsgaders sijne misdaden voorgeleijt sijnde, alle deselve opentlijck ende sonder eenigh tegenspreecken bekent, uijt puijre disperaetheijt, ende omdat dagelix op ‘t werck voor een dieff gescholden wiert gedaen had,38 ‘t welcke echter altemalen saecken sijnde van seer quaden gevolge, die niet behoren geleden maer ten affschricke van anderen op ‘t rigoreuste sonder simulatie gestraft te worden, Soo is echter goetgevonden ende verstaen dewijl onsen Raet alhier (vermits ‘t jachts vertreck na de baij van Saldanha ) seer onsterck is, ende ‘t selve een sware saecke sij om voor ons alleen aff te handelen, denselven in d’ ijsers te houden tot d’ aencomste der respective retourvloote uijt India over 8 a 9 weecken apparent te paresseren omme hen als dan in handen van den Commandeur der selver en de bij hebbenden Raedt over te leveren.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1652.
[Signed:] PAULUS PETKAUW.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1652.
[Signed:] PAULUS PETKAUW.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.