Cape Council of Policy
395
1669-03-15
Minute details
- Entry number
- 395
- Date
- 1669-03-15
- Year
- 1669
English translation
Also to the Lord Joan Thijsen Raat of India, by Her Honor. in Batavia the Command of this returning fleet stationed at sea has been delegated, and as the Commissioner of this Residence authorizes, a petition from Lidia de Paap, wife of the deported Hendrik Lakus, former sub-merchant and bookkeeper of the fortress, has been handed over to His E. in the ordinary evening meeting, in which she humbly begs the petitioner, together with her two children, to be released from her detention on the Robben Island (as she has been condemned, pursuant to a resolution of March 7, 1668, to remain in arrest with her husband until the funds stolen from him and embezzled from the E. Company have been brought to light), as she is innocent of the fraud, and slingse gale with her husband, in the aforementioned quality committed, So it is that His E. has presented the petitioner's request to E. Commander Borghorst and the respective Council, that according to style of law one could not refuse her (as not punishable for offences committed with her husband) to come here, provided that she is outside the charge of E. Compe. and the deacons of this Colony, having to support them with their children, to which she, as a diligent, energetic, and dexterous woman, is judged capable by those who know her hard work, whether it should not be fetched from there by boat on the first available occasion, especially since her husband has previously requested in writing that his wife and two children be fetched from Robben Island, and that she might bring them here with them. The proposal having been carefully considered by E. Borghorst and Council, it was decided unanimously, after both pro and con, to allow her and her children to come here on the first available occasion.
In Fort de Goede Hoope, the aforementioned was done, decided, and arrested.
[Signed:] JOAN THIJSEN
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[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] A. HARTMAN.
[Signed:] R. CARPENTIER.
In Fort de Goede Hoope, the aforementioned was done, decided, and arrested.
[Signed:] JOAN THIJSEN
66
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] A. HARTMAN.
[Signed:] R. CARPENTIER.
Original Dutch transcription
Alsoo aan d’ Heer Joan Thijsen Raat van India, door Haar Edle. in Batavia ‘t Commando deser ter rheede leggende retourvloot is gedefereert, en als Commissaris deser Residentie g’authoriseert, soo is in de gewoone avontsvergaderinge, Sijn E. een supplicatie van Lidia de Paap, huijsvrouw van den gedeporteerden Hendrik Lakus, gewese ondercoopman en negotieboeckhouder deser fortresse, inhandicht, waarinne sij suppliante ootmoedelijck smeect metter 2 kinderen van haar detentie op ‘t Robbeneijlant , (daar se achtervolgens resolutie van den 7en Maart 1668, gecondemneert is, nevens haar man in arrest te moeten blijven, totter tijt de bij hem gestolen, en verduijsterde middelen van d’ E. Compe. te voorschijn sal gebracht hebbe) te moge geslaackt worden, dewijle sij innocent is aan de fraudes, en slingse gange bij haar man, in qualite voorsz gecommitteert, Soo is ‘t dat Sijn E. ‘t billick versoeck van de suppliante den E. Commandr. Borghorst, en respective Raat heeft voorgehouden, men na stijl van rechten haar niet conde weijgeren (als niet strafbaar over delicten bij haar man begaan) hier te comen, mits haar buijten lasten van d’ E. Compe. en diakonie deser Colonie, metter kinderen te moeten sustenteren, waar toe sij als een neerstige, wackere, en handige vrouw, van degene die haar arbeijtsaamheijt bekent sijn, bestant g’oordeelt wort, off men over sulcx haar per eerste off rescerende occagie, niet behoorde met een vaartuijgh van daar te halen, te meer haar man voor dese schrifftelijck versocht heeft, sijn vrouw en 2 kinderen, van ‘t Robbeneijlant mochten gehaalt, en sij haar hier met deselve erneren mocht, ‘t geproponeerde bij den E. Borghorst en Raat aandachtelijck overwogen sijnde, is na pro et contra was g’ageert, met eenparige stemme besloten, haar metter kinderen per primo occagie hier te laten come.
In ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope adij voorsz gedaan, besloten, en g’arresteert.
[Signed:] JOAN THIJSEN
66
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] A. HARTMAN.
[Signed:] R. CARPENTIER.
In ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope adij voorsz gedaan, besloten, en g’arresteert.
[Signed:] JOAN THIJSEN
66
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] A. HARTMAN.
[Signed:] R. CARPENTIER.