Cape Council of Policy
186
1658-11-30
Minute details
- Entry number
- 186
- Date
- 1658-11-30
- Year
- 1658
English translation
By the supervisor of Comps. sheep, on the Robben Island Rijcq Overhagen, it being reported that in the past year more than 120 sheep had been killed by the rain and the cold due to a lack of stables, due to the stormy weather during the rainy season, etc., and that at present, 474 good-sized sheep, as large as calves, were thriving very well. And to keep them in such a condition and for good breeding, very necessary for the rainy season, suitable stables had to be made. Therefore, considering the importance of that, approved by the Council, it was firstly ordered to the forest people: to have the following timbers made, for a sheep shed 100 feet long, and 18 feet wide, so that the sheep on Robben Island may be under the roof at night during the rainy season, since they cannot stand under the roof in the present weather, and because of the wet, cold weather, as mentioned above, they are often subject to death, etc., namely:
After completing this, which has also been resolved and all-inclusively ordered, wood should be made ready for a large cairn at Comp's corn scourer to be used there (the best pastures being) for Comp's grain. to keep the beastiality at night, and to graze it by and around it during the day, up to the forest hill included, and sometimes also on the large plain over the Liesbeecq river, outside the freemen's cornlands, which were very necessary also for the protection and preservation of these freemen's beastiality, etc., as well as in consideration of exchange of pastures, since the majority of our beastiality was particularly necessary; because in one place one grazes, in another there is room for some growth, as here in the Taeffel Valley and behind the Leeuwenbergh (which was given to the Commander by the Lord of Goens as arable land) it has already been largely eaten away, and in addition to which, near Harman Remajennes' residence (a bridge has been built), a wide road will also have to be cleared to provide a suitable passage for Comps. land from the crael of Comps. The corn mill was also approved, as the aforementioned overland meadow was finally finished.613
This also proved to be acceptable, as the aforementioned structure was finished in the forest.614 The carpenters here at the fort were to keep an eye on the stables (with corn silos above them) for the sheep and draught animals, etc., behind the fort on either side of the crael, to be finished. This crael will also have to be renovated soon, and the timberwork must also be finished, because the ground parapet, due to erosion caused by the animals butting their horns, is always a work in progress. If the wall is generally open, it is necessary to better protect the animals, as it should be constructed around it like a palisade, since the aforementioned earthen walls also create a weak barrier for the fort.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope, date uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
After completing this, which has also been resolved and all-inclusively ordered, wood should be made ready for a large cairn at Comp's corn scourer to be used there (the best pastures being) for Comp's grain. to keep the beastiality at night, and to graze it by and around it during the day, up to the forest hill included, and sometimes also on the large plain over the Liesbeecq river, outside the freemen's cornlands, which were very necessary also for the protection and preservation of these freemen's beastiality, etc., as well as in consideration of exchange of pastures, since the majority of our beastiality was particularly necessary; because in one place one grazes, in another there is room for some growth, as here in the Taeffel Valley and behind the Leeuwenbergh (which was given to the Commander by the Lord of Goens as arable land) it has already been largely eaten away, and in addition to which, near Harman Remajennes' residence (a bridge has been built), a wide road will also have to be cleared to provide a suitable passage for Comps. land from the crael of Comps. The corn mill was also approved, as the aforementioned overland meadow was finally finished.613
This also proved to be acceptable, as the aforementioned structure was finished in the forest.614 The carpenters here at the fort were to keep an eye on the stables (with corn silos above them) for the sheep and draught animals, etc., behind the fort on either side of the crael, to be finished. This crael will also have to be renovated soon, and the timberwork must also be finished, because the ground parapet, due to erosion caused by the animals butting their horns, is always a work in progress. If the wall is generally open, it is necessary to better protect the animals, as it should be constructed around it like a palisade, since the aforementioned earthen walls also create a weak barrier for the fort.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope, date uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Original Dutch transcription
Door den opsiender van Comps. schapen, op ‘t Robbeneijlandt Rijcq Overhagen, voorgedragen sijnde, dat anno passado meer als 120 schapen, door den regen en de coude waren om den hals geraeckt mits manquement van stallingh, voor ‘t onstuijmigh weer in de regentijt &a., ende datter jegenwoordigh, 474 treffelijcke schapen, soo groot als calven seer wel tierende waren,Ende612 om deselve soodanigh, ende tot goede aenteelinge te houden, heel nodigh voor ‘t regenmoussen, bequame stallinge diende gemaeckt, Soo is ingesien de emportantie van dien, bij den Raedt goetgevonden, ten eersten aen ‘t bosvolcq ordre te geven: om de navolgenden houtwercken, gereet te laten maecken, tot een schapestal van 100 voet langte, ende 18 voet breedte, ten eijnde de schapen op ‘t Robbeneijlandt , in den regentijt ‘s nachts onder ‘t dacq mogen wesen, vermits deselve in ‘t jegenwoordige niet cunnen staen, ende door ‘t natte coude weer, gelijck voorsz anders seer comen te sterven &a. te weten:
Na volbrengingh van ‘t welcke oocq geresolveert, ende met eenen al g’ordonneert is, hout gereet te maecken tot een groote crael aen Comps. corenschuijr omme aldaer (de beste weijden wesende) des Comps. bestiael des snachts te bewaren, ende daegs bij ende omtrent deselve te weijden, tot aen den bosheuvel incluijs ende oocq somtijts op de groote vlacte over de revier Liesbeecq , buijten de over vrijeluijden hare corenlanden seer nodigh oocq tot deffentie ende bewaringe van deselve vrijeluijden haer bestiael &a. als mede uijt consideratie van verwisselinge der weijden vermits de meenichte onses bestiaels bijsonder nodigh sijnde; om dewijl men op d’ eene plaetse weijdt, d’ ander weder wat aengroeiijen mach, alsoo ‘t hier in de Taeffelvaleij ende achter den Leeuwenbergh (dat den Commandeur bij d’ E. heer van Goens tot bouwlandt gegeven was) al heel cael affgegeten is, Ende ten welcken fine tegen Harman Remajennes wooninge (een brugh gemaeckt) oocq een breede wegh sal moeten affgerooijt worden, tot een bequaeme passagie voor Comps. bestiael uijt de crael van Comps. corenschuijr ten fine gemelt na de voorsz overlants weijde heen ende weer te passeeren.613
Sijnde oocq goetgevonden dewijl ‘t houdt ten eijnde voorsz in ‘t bos gereetwort614 gemaect de timmerluijden hier aen ‘t fort besigh te houden om de stallingen (met corensolders daerboven) voor de schapen en de treckbeesten &a., hier achter ‘t fort aen wedersijden van ‘t crael voorts aff te laten maecken, welcq crael eerstdaegs mede vernieuwt sal moeten wesen, ende waer toe de houtwercken oocq al gereet leggen, omdat aen de aerde borstweer, door ‘t affcalven, mits ‘t stooten van de beesten met hare hoorens, t’ elckens ende altijt wercq is, oocq do. crael dan doorgaens open leijt, sulcx het nodigh sij: om de beesten te beter te cunnen bewaren, als sullende romts om,615 gelijck een staketsel gemaeckt worden, vermits voorsz aerdewalleken oocq maer onsterckte voor ‘t fort is causeerende.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Na volbrengingh van ‘t welcke oocq geresolveert, ende met eenen al g’ordonneert is, hout gereet te maecken tot een groote crael aen Comps. corenschuijr omme aldaer (de beste weijden wesende) des Comps. bestiael des snachts te bewaren, ende daegs bij ende omtrent deselve te weijden, tot aen den bosheuvel incluijs ende oocq somtijts op de groote vlacte over de revier Liesbeecq , buijten de over vrijeluijden hare corenlanden seer nodigh oocq tot deffentie ende bewaringe van deselve vrijeluijden haer bestiael &a. als mede uijt consideratie van verwisselinge der weijden vermits de meenichte onses bestiaels bijsonder nodigh sijnde; om dewijl men op d’ eene plaetse weijdt, d’ ander weder wat aengroeiijen mach, alsoo ‘t hier in de Taeffelvaleij ende achter den Leeuwenbergh (dat den Commandeur bij d’ E. heer van Goens tot bouwlandt gegeven was) al heel cael affgegeten is, Ende ten welcken fine tegen Harman Remajennes wooninge (een brugh gemaeckt) oocq een breede wegh sal moeten affgerooijt worden, tot een bequaeme passagie voor Comps. bestiael uijt de crael van Comps. corenschuijr ten fine gemelt na de voorsz overlants weijde heen ende weer te passeeren.613
Sijnde oocq goetgevonden dewijl ‘t houdt ten eijnde voorsz in ‘t bos gereetwort614 gemaect de timmerluijden hier aen ‘t fort besigh te houden om de stallingen (met corensolders daerboven) voor de schapen en de treckbeesten &a., hier achter ‘t fort aen wedersijden van ‘t crael voorts aff te laten maecken, welcq crael eerstdaegs mede vernieuwt sal moeten wesen, ende waer toe de houtwercken oocq al gereet leggen, omdat aen de aerde borstweer, door ‘t affcalven, mits ‘t stooten van de beesten met hare hoorens, t’ elckens ende altijt wercq is, oocq do. crael dan doorgaens open leijt, sulcx het nodigh sij: om de beesten te beter te cunnen bewaren, als sullende romts om,615 gelijck een staketsel gemaeckt worden, vermits voorsz aerdewalleken oocq maer onsterckte voor ‘t fort is causeerende.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.