Cape Council of Policy
377
1668-04-25
Minute details
- Entry number
- 377
- Date
- 1668-04-25
- Year
- 1668
English translation
Also, in order to prevent all the extortionate usury (which was common practice among freemen when selling bread to passing ships as a garrison), an act was instituted on 8 February. and June 21, 1664, by resolutions it was understood and established to nominate and appoint a freeman here, who alone and no one else would be able to bake the bread that would come from the grains (which would be provided to him by the Company) at the appointed price and weight, to peddle and sell, and noting that the appointed freeman Thomas Christoffel Muller left for the homeland on the most recent return trip, as a result of which the aforementioned bakery and its associated accommodation came to be ceded and ceased, so that the freeman Matthijs Coeijmans, (who was a baker of his handicraft and by the E. The Company, previously employed in this service, will nominate him for this purpose at his submissive request and grant him the aforementioned benefit, whereby the same (as the pound of wheat will cost two guilders more at the E. Company after this) will have to sell the same bread at the following weights and prices, on the grounds that any bread weighing too little or too much will be subject to an amendment of 12 ra. each time, and this benefit will be immediately withdrawn and given to another, namely:
Rye bread.
Wheat bread.
Finely baked white bread.
With the express stipulation that Coeijmans will not be allowed to sell any of his aforementioned bread to any free inhabitants here unless our garrison and the present ship's friends are provided with and satisfied, and that these freemen will be accommodated monthly by the E. Company with grain for their household, he also remains strictly prohibited from purchasing any grain from the freemen, except on a license obtained from the Commander. Likewise, no freemen will be permitted to sell any bread to the ships or elsewhere, or to give it away under this cover, as he also authorizes Coeijmans to take care of, and is hereby granted, on penalty of the aforementioned penalty.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on Cabo d'Boa Esperance on the date and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] CORN. VAN QUAELBERGH.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM SCHUT.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
Rye bread.
Wheat bread.
Finely baked white bread.
With the express stipulation that Coeijmans will not be allowed to sell any of his aforementioned bread to any free inhabitants here unless our garrison and the present ship's friends are provided with and satisfied, and that these freemen will be accommodated monthly by the E. Company with grain for their household, he also remains strictly prohibited from purchasing any grain from the freemen, except on a license obtained from the Commander. Likewise, no freemen will be permitted to sell any bread to the ships or elsewhere, or to give it away under this cover, as he also authorizes Coeijmans to take care of, and is hereby granted, on penalty of the aforementioned penalty.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on Cabo d'Boa Esperance on the date and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] CORN. VAN QUAELBERGH.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM SCHUT.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
Original Dutch transcription
Also om alle schraepachtige woekerije, (die door de vrijelieden over ‘t vercopen van broot, soo aen de passerende schepen, als guarnisoen, in swang ging) voor te komen, is op den 8en Febr. en 21en Junij 1664 bij resolutien verstaan en vastgestelt, eenen vrijbacker alhier te nomineren en stellen, dewelcke eenlijk en niemant10 anders, ‘t broot dat van de graenen (die hem van de Compe. souden gelevent worden) quaem te backen tot de beraemde prijse, en gewichten, souden vermogens wesen wt te venten, en te vercopen, en gemerct den gestelden vrijbacker Thomas Christoffel Muller per d’ jongste vertrockene retourvloot naer ‘t vaderlant is vertrocken waer door voorsz backerije, en gevolgelijke accomodatie, is comen te cesseren, en op te houden, soo hebben goet gevonden om voorsz grouwelijke schraperije niet meer te laten inwortelen, den vrijborger Matthijs Coeijmans, (die een backer van sijn hantwerck en bij d’ E. Compe. bevorens daer voor, in dienst gebruijct is) op sijn submissive versoeck de novo daer toe te nomineren, en met voorsz benifitie te begunstigen, sullende denselven (aengesien ‘t mudde taruw na desen twee guld. bij d’ E. Compe meer sal komen te gelden) ‘t selve broot met navolgende gewichte en prijsen hebben te verkopen, op pene van te weijnich wegende, off te veel afnemens daer voor telckens in een amende van 12 Ra. vervallen, en dese sijne benifitie datelijk weder afgenomen, en aen een ander gegeven worden, te weten:
Roggen-brooth.
Tarruwen Brooth.
Fijn gebuijlt Wittenbrooth.
Met welke expresse beding dat hij Coeijmans van sijn voorsz te backen broot aen geene vrije-inwoonders alhier sal mogen vercopen tenzij ons guarnisoen, en de presente scheepsvrienden, daer van versien en vergenoegt sullen wesen, also deselve vrijelieden maandelijcx van d’ E. Compe. met cooren voor hare huijshoudinge worden geaccommodeert, blijvende hij Coeijmans oock mits desen op groote pene verboden, eenig cooren van de vrijelieden in te kopen als op bekomen lecentie van d’ heer Commandr. Soo sullen oock geene vrijelieden niet vermogens wesen, eenig broot aen de schepen off elders te verkopen, off onder dien deckmantel wegh te schencken, daar hij Coeijmans ook authoriteijt van op te letten, bij desen toegegeven wort, op poene voorsz.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope aen Cabo d’ Boa Esperance ten dage ende jare voorsz.
[Signed:] CORN. VAN QUAELBERGH.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM SCHUT.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
Roggen-brooth.
Tarruwen Brooth.
Fijn gebuijlt Wittenbrooth.
Met welke expresse beding dat hij Coeijmans van sijn voorsz te backen broot aen geene vrije-inwoonders alhier sal mogen vercopen tenzij ons guarnisoen, en de presente scheepsvrienden, daer van versien en vergenoegt sullen wesen, also deselve vrijelieden maandelijcx van d’ E. Compe. met cooren voor hare huijshoudinge worden geaccommodeert, blijvende hij Coeijmans oock mits desen op groote pene verboden, eenig cooren van de vrijelieden in te kopen als op bekomen lecentie van d’ heer Commandr. Soo sullen oock geene vrijelieden niet vermogens wesen, eenig broot aen de schepen off elders te verkopen, off onder dien deckmantel wegh te schencken, daar hij Coeijmans ook authoriteijt van op te letten, bij desen toegegeven wort, op poene voorsz.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope aen Cabo d’ Boa Esperance ten dage ende jare voorsz.
[Signed:] CORN. VAN QUAELBERGH.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM SCHUT.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.