Cape Council of Policy
35
1653-12-03
Minute details
- Entry number
- 35
- Date
- 1653-12-03
- Year
- 1653
English translation
Today107, at the court of this fortress of Goede Hoope, being well and rightfully condemned, namely Cornelis Ulricxs,108 assistant barber on the galley De Roode Vos, to be ordered to suspend his conduct for six months and to be punished with 50 lashes: as well as to ask forgiveness from the Justice Department as well as from the skipper and steersman and to restore his honor, because among the people many vile and false gossips had been spread by the same skipper and steersman, their respective chiefs, to a great injury and harm to his good name and reputation, which had caused some unrest among the people and the principles of disobedience began to travel etc.
Item to the butler Roeloff Dirckxs. to be punished with 50 lashes, along with restoration of honor and a plea for forgiveness as mentioned above, because such lying gossip (heard from the aforementioned barber) had not only spread among the people, but also did not hesitate, in a fit of rage, to reproach the skipper for considering him a ring thief, which was more likely to be a source of reproach and disrespect to his aforementioned superiors. Therefore, after careful deliberation and proper consultation, it was unanimously decided to have the aforementioned sentence pronounced and executed tomorrow, so that everything would be preserved in good order and everyone would remain under proper discipline and obedience to their respective superiors.
Thus done and resolved in 't Fort de Goede Hoope date aforesaid.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1653.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1653.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secret.
Item to the butler Roeloff Dirckxs. to be punished with 50 lashes, along with restoration of honor and a plea for forgiveness as mentioned above, because such lying gossip (heard from the aforementioned barber) had not only spread among the people, but also did not hesitate, in a fit of rage, to reproach the skipper for considering him a ring thief, which was more likely to be a source of reproach and disrespect to his aforementioned superiors. Therefore, after careful deliberation and proper consultation, it was unanimously decided to have the aforementioned sentence pronounced and executed tomorrow, so that everything would be preserved in good order and everyone would remain under proper discipline and obedience to their respective superiors.
Thus done and resolved in 't Fort de Goede Hoope date aforesaid.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1653.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1653.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secret.
Original Dutch transcription
Op heden107 bij den gerechte deser fortresse de Goede Hoope wel ende ten rechten gecondemneert sijnde namentlijck Cornelis Ulricxs.108 onderbarbier op ‘t galijot de Roode Vos , bescheijden tot suspence in desselffs qualiteijt voor ses maenden ende met 50 slagen gelaerst te worden: mitsgaders oock omme de Justitie als oock den schipper ende stuijrman om vergiffenisse te bidden ende der selver eere te repareren, over dat onder ‘t volcq veele vuijle logenachtige achterclapperijen hadden gevoert van den selven schipper ende stuijrman sijne respective opperhooffden tot vrij groote quetsinge ende krenckinge in derselver goede naem ende faeme waer door al eenige oproer onder ‘t volcq ende beginselen van ongehoorsaemheijt begonden te reijsen &a.
Item den bottelier Roeloff Dirckxs. met 50 slagen mede gelaerst te worden nevens reparatie van eere ende biddinge om vergiffenisse als voren, over dat sulcke logenachtige achterclapperijen (van gemelten barbier gehoort), niet alleen onder den volcque hadde gedivulgeert: maer oock sigh niet geschroomt in hevigen moede den schipper te verwijten datter waren die hem voor een ringen dieff hielden, ende wes meer tot vilipendie ende cleijnachtinge sijner gemelten opperhooffden streckende, Soo is na wel genomen deliberatie ende goet overlegh eenstemmigh verstaen gemelte sententie op morgen te doen pronuncheren ende executeren, op dat alles in goede ordre geconserveert ende ijder onder behoorlijcke dissipline ende gehoorsaemheijt van sijne respective opperhooffden gehouden mochte blijven.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum ut ante.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1653.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1653.
[Signed:] FR. V.BURGH, Secrt.
Item den bottelier Roeloff Dirckxs. met 50 slagen mede gelaerst te worden nevens reparatie van eere ende biddinge om vergiffenisse als voren, over dat sulcke logenachtige achterclapperijen (van gemelten barbier gehoort), niet alleen onder den volcque hadde gedivulgeert: maer oock sigh niet geschroomt in hevigen moede den schipper te verwijten datter waren die hem voor een ringen dieff hielden, ende wes meer tot vilipendie ende cleijnachtinge sijner gemelten opperhooffden streckende, Soo is na wel genomen deliberatie ende goet overlegh eenstemmigh verstaen gemelte sententie op morgen te doen pronuncheren ende executeren, op dat alles in goede ordre geconserveert ende ijder onder behoorlijcke dissipline ende gehoorsaemheijt van sijne respective opperhooffden gehouden mochte blijven.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum ut ante.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1653.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1653.
[Signed:] FR. V.BURGH, Secrt.