Cape Council of Policy
40
1654-01-16
Minute details
- Entry number
- 40
- Date
- 1654-01-16
- Year
- 1654
English translation
Not having resolved yesterday not to enter into interrogatories: but to let the commissioners117 ask the parties what else they had to say against each other or what excuses they had to make, as happened, and the same commissioners experienced that no one wanted to give an unjust account of this, one standing free against the other, and some excusing themselves from all the documents handed over118 etc. Also the sick comforter was similarly asked, because of the difficulties personally concerning him and the sub-merchant, he had not wanted to answer anything other than that he wanted to deliberate more wisely in Batavia, thereby acknowledging that the Council here did not know enough to do such a thing here. to defer, to insert, as far as it may be deemed necessary, that the matters here are concluded, the guilty punished, and the innocent, as well as those who deserve to be seen, be maintained in their sight. Therefore, after careful deliberation, it was decided to summon all the ship's officers ashore immediately to examine them under oath before the Council of this fortress on every article of its kept memorial or daily record and delivered statement, which refers to it, and which is particularly and principally intended to be the responsibility of the skipper than of the sub-merchant, as can be seen in the introduction and principles of the same. Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] ELBERT CORNELESZ KES. 1654.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] JANN SIJMESEN.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secrets.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] ELBERT CORNELESZ KES. 1654.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] JANN SIJMESEN.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Niet jegenstaende op gister hadden geresolveert tot geen interrogatorien te treden: maer eenlijckdoor gecommitteerdens117 partijen te laten vragen wat noch meer tot elckanders laste offte verschooningen in te brengen hadden, gelijck geschiet is, ende door de selve gecommitteerde ondervonden sij, dat niemant qualijck ter degen bescheijt heefft willen geven, d’ een vrij tegen d’ ander staende, ende sommige hun excuserende van alle de overgegeven schrifften geen kennissete hebben118 &a., Item oock den sieckentrooster insgelijcx gevraeght sijnde, wegen de moeijten particulierlijck hem ende den ondercoopman concernerende, niets anders hadde willen antwoorden, als dat sigh op Batavia met wijser wilde beraden, daer mede bethonende den Raet alhier niet suffichant genoegh te kennen omme sulckx hier te decerneren, Invoegen langhs soo meer bevinden nodigh te wesen de saecken hier affgehandelt, de schuldige gestrafft, ende d’ onschuldige mitsgaders die ‘t behoort in haer gesagh gemainteneert worden; Soo is na goet overlegh goetgevonden alle de scheeps-officieren terstont aen lant te laten comen: omme deselve voor den Raet deser fortresse onder eede te verhooren op ijder articul van haer gehouden memoriael offte dagelijxe aenteijckeninge ende overgelevert verthoogh, dat sigh daer aen refereert, ende tot laste van den schipper bijsonderlijck ende ten principaelen meer als den ondercoopman is streckende, als bij de inleijdinge ende beginselen van de selve insonderheijt is te bespeuren.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jaere als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] ELBERT CORNELESZ KES. 1654.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] JANN SIJMESEN.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secrets.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jaere als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] JACOB REYNIERSZ.
[Signed:] ELBERT CORNELESZ KES. 1654.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] JANN SIJMESEN.
[Signed:] FR. V. BURGH, Secrets.