Cape Council of Policy
403
1669-06-25
Minute details
- Entry number
- 403
- Date
- 1669-06-25
- Year
- 1669
English translation
As to our great sorrow and heartbreak the corner boat Leepelaer, by three bandits who had forgotten Oath and God, ran off on the 23rd of this month and left this bay and got into the sea, causing us great consternation and dismay, as we feared that these bandits might cruise here on this coast with the aforementioned Leepelaertie, plunder the islands and thus make the boundaries of liberty unsafe; therefore it is to prevent and prevent such a thing and to strive with the utmost diligence to ensure that the aforementioned. The ship was again captured and recovered in our vault, the corporal Hans Cock ordered the Bridegroom and 5 soldiers to his assistance, after navigating the Dasseneijlant for himself and s' Comps. to secure the cattle with all diligence, and also to use all diligence to encounter the same deceased Lepelaertie, should it come to pass there, to see that it is overwhelmed, and to bring us back again, being a bounty to animate them, to the ship six hundred Rijcxdaelders, and to the bull-man Dirck Cornelisz Veen (being the principal rogue) receiving, alive or dead, one hundred of the same pieces, and to be afraid that the said rogues might have set their course for the island of Maurit[i]us with the deceased Lepelaertje, and there appearing as friends, the occupants (as of that betrayal (unsuspecting) might come to surprise them, kill them and thus make them masters of the entire island, or failing that, by cunning and practice to extract the ebony wood and with that choose another place. Furthermore, in order to properly secure the island of Mauritius, to free the settlers from all nuisance and hardship and to show our vigilance and diligent zeal everywhere, after due deliberation one of the first ships arriving here from home, which was looked for daily with great longing, and our Voermantje 96 being a gaff sail that was ordered to be unsuitable for this, was detained here, in order to get to it as quickly as possible to sail to Mauritius if possible, and from there depart for Batavia in the confidence that this will be accepted as being for the greatest benefit and prosperity of the Holy Company, as well as for the satisfaction of our conscience.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Original Dutch transcription
Alsoo tot ons groot leetwesen en hartseer ‘t hoeckerbootge de Leepelaer door drie Eedt en Godt vergeetene94 bandieten op 23en deser affgeloopen en dese baeij uijt, en in zee geraeckt is, in ons een groote onsteltenisse en verslagenheijt baerende, sijnde beducht dat deselve bandieten met ‘t voorn. Leepelaertie hier op dese cust soude mogen cruijsen, d’ eijlanden beroven en alsoo de paelen der vrijheijt onveyligh maecken; Soo is ‘t om sulckx voor te comen en te beletten ende met uijterste neerstigheijt daer nae te trachten dat ‘et voorn. scheepje wederom moghte geattrappeert en in ons gewelt herstelt werden, den corporael Hans Cock geordonneert per de chialoup de Bruijdegom en 5 soldaeten tot sijn adsistentie, nae ‘t Dasseneijlant te navigeren om ‘t selve en s’ Comps. vee met alle diligentie te verseekeren, en oock alle neerstigheijt om ‘t selve affgeloopene Leepelaertie bij aldien ‘et daer moghten comen te rescontreren aenwendende, sien t’ overrompelen, en ons weder toe te brengen, zijnde tot een premie om haer te animeren, op ‘t schip seshondert Rijcxdaelders, en op den stierman Dirck Cornelisz Veen (sijnde den principaelsten schelm) levendigh off doot bekomende hondert diergelijcke stucken gestelt, ende alsoo bedught sijn dat voorsz schelmen met ‘et affgeloopene Lepelaertje haeren cours naer ‘t eijlant Maurit[i]us soude mogen gestelt hebben, en aldaer in schijn als vrinden verschijnende de besettelingen (als van dat verraet ontweetende) moghten comen te overrompelen, doot te slaen en haer alsoo meester van ‘t geheele eijlant te maecken off bij gebreck van dien door list en pratijcquen ‘t ebbenhout soecken te ontfutselen en daermede een ander plaetse kiesen, Soo is wijders om ‘t eijlant Mauritius wel te verseekeren, de besettelingen voor alle noot en swarigheijt te bevrijden en ons wakend d’ oogh en neerstigen ijver over al te doen blijcken, nae rijp overlegh gedelibereert een van de eerste hier uijt ‘et vaderlant aencomende scheepen daer met groote verlangen95 dagelijcx nae wert uijtges[ien] en ons Voermantje 96 zijnde een gaffel zeijl d[aer]toe onbequaem geordeelt wert, hier aen [te] houden, om ‘et selve soo haest mogelijck nae Mauritius aff te vaerdigen, cunnende ‘t selve van daer nae Batavia vertrecken onder vertrouwendat97 sulcx als ten meesten nutte en welvaeren van d’ E. Compe. als oock tot gerusheijt van onse concientiegedaen98 sal aengenomen werden.
Aldus gedaen en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Aldus gedaen en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.