Cape Council of Policy
398
1669-05-01
Minute details
- Entry number
- 398
- Date
- 1669-05-01
- Year
- 1669
English translation
Insofar as Their Noble Superiors, in their letter of the 19th of December in the year Passado, command us that we should have the Saldanha Bay occupied with a party of people, in order to prevent any European potentates from usurping our possession there, as they speculate mainly on the French Compe., which Compe. according to a certain extract (sent by the Lord Secretary Romff81 from Paris on the 23rd of November, passed to Her Most High for advice) it would be of the opinion to leave the island of Madagascar and to have one's eye set on this Cape or elsewhere, and in such case, and for the same, a person is required who, before making any pilgrimages with Comps. coat of arms erected all around the corners, there some land seeded with thuja, as well as the islands with some sheep and a man and two, having the above-mentioned France, at her paresce there, in kindness presents itself, especially when they try to put them down there, and thus to secure the same, that we have long ago the82 Cabo de Boa Esperance and consequently also the aforementioned. Saldanhiabaeij, as well as the islands lying there, have been possessed and sailed over, and are not entitled to settle there or choose their domicile, much less to usurp our rightful possession, and yet, under the same, then to protest injustice in the name of our high authority. We have therefore nominated the person of Sr. Georgh Frederick Wreeden, sub-merchant, (the youngest to land here by the Grundel), to sail there with our yacht, the Voerman, (as soon as the wind permits), having moreover all for 10 to 12 days under the watchful eye of Sergiant Jeronimus Croese in 2, 83 and 14 men over. sent there, choosing his person for this purpose on principle, because none of our Council can be present, and with the sending to Mauritius (where the aforementioned Sr. Wreede, as chief, apparently intends to depart), we will have to wait another six weeks before the opportunity presents itself, or if we will have him replaced by another, and let him take his further voyage.
Meendagh.
Thus it was also decided unanimously on the 6th of May to transfer skipper Leendert Leendertsz (who appeared here from the yacht 't Wapen van der Goes) and about a deposition (which he, according to the stated attestation and interrogatories, allegedly committed and perpetrated by his person to a soldier, Sir Maturijn Puto, on board ship, by striking him on the head) as well as other complaints of bad salaries and accusations moreover here in detention, on the flute ship Loosduijnen outside seen and service, to be transferred there upon arrival in Batavia, there to be brought to trial before the honorable Council of Justice; To this end, we will also transfer to Her Honor all the pieces that have been declared in reserve by the fiscal, since we cannot safely detain Comp.'s precious ship here afterward, much less can it remain vacant for longer due to its multiple occupations. And in order for Comp.'s aforementioned precious ship to sail to this one more securely, it has also been decided that Cornelis Cornelisz Blanckeroot (who recently arrived from Batavia as skipper of the Leepelaer) will transfer to her as commanding skipper, as he is a man of good experience who has commanded Comp. in this case, having rendered service for many years, albeit of lesser quality, and in his place again, on the Leepelaer, as provisional skipper, the chief skipper of the aforementioned ship, the Wapen van der Goes, called Willebordt Bosse, will be appointed. Subsequently, the pilots will, on provisional appointment and upon approval of the Noble Lord Governor General and the Honourable Lords Councillors of India, have to fill and manage the vacancies arising in succession.
Thus done and arrested, (sic.) at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] ABM. ZEEUW.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
Meendagh.
Thus it was also decided unanimously on the 6th of May to transfer skipper Leendert Leendertsz (who appeared here from the yacht 't Wapen van der Goes) and about a deposition (which he, according to the stated attestation and interrogatories, allegedly committed and perpetrated by his person to a soldier, Sir Maturijn Puto, on board ship, by striking him on the head) as well as other complaints of bad salaries and accusations moreover here in detention, on the flute ship Loosduijnen outside seen and service, to be transferred there upon arrival in Batavia, there to be brought to trial before the honorable Council of Justice; To this end, we will also transfer to Her Honor all the pieces that have been declared in reserve by the fiscal, since we cannot safely detain Comp.'s precious ship here afterward, much less can it remain vacant for longer due to its multiple occupations. And in order for Comp.'s aforementioned precious ship to sail to this one more securely, it has also been decided that Cornelis Cornelisz Blanckeroot (who recently arrived from Batavia as skipper of the Leepelaer) will transfer to her as commanding skipper, as he is a man of good experience who has commanded Comp. in this case, having rendered service for many years, albeit of lesser quality, and in his place again, on the Leepelaer, as provisional skipper, the chief skipper of the aforementioned ship, the Wapen van der Goes, called Willebordt Bosse, will be appointed. Subsequently, the pilots will, on provisional appointment and upon approval of the Noble Lord Governor General and the Honourable Lords Councillors of India, have to fill and manage the vacancies arising in succession.
Thus done and arrested, (sic.) at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] ABM. ZEEUW.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
Original Dutch transcription
Aengesien Haer Edle. onse Superioren bij haere missive van den 19en December anno passado ons komen te bevelen, dat wij de Saldanhiabaeij met een partije volck soude doen besetten, omme daer door te beletten, dat geenige Europianse potentaten dese onse possessie aldaer niet moghte komen te usurperen, als speculerende merendeels op de France Compe., welcke Compe. naer luijt van seekere extract (bij den Heere Secretaris Romff81 uijt Parijs den 23en November ao. passado aan Haer Welgemelte Edle. voor advijs overgesonden) van meninge soude wesen, ‘t eylant Madagascar te verlaaten, ende ‘t oogh op dese Cabo ofte elders geslagen te hebben, Ende in sulcken gevalle, en voor desselffs comste, costij wel een persoon vereijst, die alvorens eenige paalen met Comps. wapen al omme de hoecken opgereght, aldaer eenigh lant met thuijnsaaden besaeijt, mitsgaders d’ eijlanden met eenige schaapen ende een man a twee beset hebbende bovengenoemde France , bij haere paresce aldaer, in vrindelijckheijt voordraaght, insonderheijt wanneer haer daer traghten neer te slaen, ende alsoo ‘t selve te possideren, dat wij al voorlange de82 Cabo de Boa Esperance ende bij gevolge mede voorn. Saldanhiabaeij als de daer in leggende eijlanden, gepossideert en bevaren hebben, en over sulcx niet gerechtight sijn aldaer hun neder te setten ofte domecilie te kiesen, veel min onse rechtmatige possessie te usurperen, ende eghter ‘t selve noghtans onderstaende, als dan uijt den naem van onse hooge overicheijt van onreght te protesteren, Soo hebben wij den persoon van sr. Georgh Frederick Wreeden, ondercoopman, (jongst per de Grundel hier aangelant) daer toe genomineert, om met ons jachtje, de Voerman , (soo haest de wint sulcx toelaet) derwaerts te zeijlen, hebbende bovendien all voor 10 a 12 dagen onder ‘t gesagh van den sergiantJeronimus Croese in2 reijsen 83 nogh 14 man over lant derwaerts gesonden, principaelijck sijn persoon daer toe uijtkiesende, om dat geen uijt onsen Raedt voor tegenwoordigh missen cunnen, en met ‘et versenden naer Mauritius , (daer genoemde sr. Wreede voor opperhooft apparent naer toe staet te vertrecken) nogh wel 6 weecken sullen moeten waghten, al eer de occasie daer toe sal presenteren, als wanneer wij denselven door een ander sullenlaeten84 vervangen, ende sijne vordere voijagie onder nemen laeten.
Meendagh.
Soo is dato den 6en Maij bij eenparigheijt van stemmen oock beslooten, den schipper Leendert Leendertsz (per ‘t jaght ‘t Wapen van der Goes alhier verscheenen) en over een neerslagh (diehij85 aghter volgens beleijde attestatie en interragatorien door sijn persoon aan een soldaet, gent. Maturijn Puto, binnen scheepsboort, door toebrengen van een slagh op sijn hooft, soude begaen ende geperpetreert wesen) als andere klachten van quade tractementen ende beschuldingen meer alhier in detentie sittende, op ‘t fluijtschip Loosduijnen buijten gesagh en bedieningh, te doen overgaen, om daermede op Batavia arriverende, aldaer voor den achtbaren Raat van Justitie te reghte gestelt te worden; tot dien eijnde sullen wij alle de stucken, die ten dien reguarde door den fiscael in loco bennen beleijt, mede aan Haar Edle. oversenden, ten aansien wij Comps. costelijcke schip daer nae alhier niet wel ophouden, veel min dat door de veelvoudige occupatien, langer daermede vaceren kunnen. Ende op dat Comps. voorsz costelijcke schip te segourder naa desen mocht varen, is mede beslooten, dat Cornelis Cornelisz Blanckeroot (voor schipper met den Leepelaer jonghst van Batavia hier gecomen) daer voor commanderent schipper op overgaen sal, als sijnde een man van goede experientie die de Compe. in dese als mindere qualitijten lange jaeren dienst beweesen heeft, ende in sijn plaetse wederom op de Leepelaer voor provisionele schipper den opperstierman van ‘t genoemde schip ‘t Wapen van der Goes genaamt Willebordt Bosse, sullende vervolgens de stuijrluijden bij provisie ende op approbatie van d’ Edle. Heer Gouverneur Generael en d’ EE. Heeren Raaden van India, opgaende vacante plaetsen bij successie waer te nemen ende te bedienen hebben.
Aldus gedaen en gearesteert,(sic.)in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] ABM. ZEEUW.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
Meendagh.
Soo is dato den 6en Maij bij eenparigheijt van stemmen oock beslooten, den schipper Leendert Leendertsz (per ‘t jaght ‘t Wapen van der Goes alhier verscheenen) en over een neerslagh (diehij85 aghter volgens beleijde attestatie en interragatorien door sijn persoon aan een soldaet, gent. Maturijn Puto, binnen scheepsboort, door toebrengen van een slagh op sijn hooft, soude begaen ende geperpetreert wesen) als andere klachten van quade tractementen ende beschuldingen meer alhier in detentie sittende, op ‘t fluijtschip Loosduijnen buijten gesagh en bedieningh, te doen overgaen, om daermede op Batavia arriverende, aldaer voor den achtbaren Raat van Justitie te reghte gestelt te worden; tot dien eijnde sullen wij alle de stucken, die ten dien reguarde door den fiscael in loco bennen beleijt, mede aan Haar Edle. oversenden, ten aansien wij Comps. costelijcke schip daer nae alhier niet wel ophouden, veel min dat door de veelvoudige occupatien, langer daermede vaceren kunnen. Ende op dat Comps. voorsz costelijcke schip te segourder naa desen mocht varen, is mede beslooten, dat Cornelis Cornelisz Blanckeroot (voor schipper met den Leepelaer jonghst van Batavia hier gecomen) daer voor commanderent schipper op overgaen sal, als sijnde een man van goede experientie die de Compe. in dese als mindere qualitijten lange jaeren dienst beweesen heeft, ende in sijn plaetse wederom op de Leepelaer voor provisionele schipper den opperstierman van ‘t genoemde schip ‘t Wapen van der Goes genaamt Willebordt Bosse, sullende vervolgens de stuijrluijden bij provisie ende op approbatie van d’ Edle. Heer Gouverneur Generael en d’ EE. Heeren Raaden van India, opgaende vacante plaetsen bij successie waer te nemen ende te bedienen hebben.
Aldus gedaen en gearesteert,(sic.)in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] ABM. ZEEUW.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.