Cape Council of Policy
405
1669-07-15
Minute details
- Entry number
- 405
- Date
- 1669-07-15
- Year
- 1669
English translation
The Commander and Council of this fortress, assembled in Council to deliberate about the possession of the island of Mauritius, and the care of the inhabitants there; noting that the boat Lepelaar, guided on this journey with all due diligence, has been abandoned by some traitorous scoundrels and has frustrated us in our good intentions, we are also concerned about this: that the aforementioned that traitors with the name Lepelaartie might have set their course (as being inclined to more evil) to the island of Mauritius, and made themselves masters of it either by cunning or by force, has been considered with mature advice in Rade, whether our yacht the Voerman might also be deemed fit for such sending in order to do so more than once. island and to secure ourselves with it, considering that the ships which are constantly expected from here from the fatherland continue to delay for so long, and we thereby would be able to protect ourselves from the thriving and settlements there, from a certain course, due to the passing of the monsoon, but as there is still a difficulty regarding the Voerman's shipments towards the west on both sides, and nevertheless the matter regarding the monsoon cannot suffer any further delay, so after the matter has been thoroughly considered and the sea experienced people have been examined on it, we have finally concluded that after 6 to 8 days' waiting for fatherland ships and the same not appearing here, the urgent request of the Voerman, which has been made several times, is to have it cleared and sent to Mauritius to save our own state and the inhabitants there from harm, with confidence that we will be so entrusted here as the true service of the E. Comp. will require.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
[Signed:] WILLEBOORT BOSSEE.
[Signed:] JAN BRETTAL.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
[Signed:] WILLEBOORT BOSSEE.
[Signed:] JAN BRETTAL.
Original Dutch transcription
Den Commandeur, ende Raet deser fortresse, in Rade bijeen vergadert, om over ‘t besenden van ‘t eijlant Mauritius , en ‘t besorgen der besettelingen aldaar, te delibereren; gemerct ‘t bootie de Lepelaar tot die reijse in alles volvaerdigt aangeleijt, door eenige verradersse schelmen affgelopen, en ons in ons goet voornemen gefrustreert hebben, wij oock daar over beducht sijn: dat de voorn. verraders met ‘t gesijde Lepelaartie haeren coers (als tot meerder quaat genegen) naer ‘t eijlant Mauritius mochten geset, en haar off door list off door gewelt meester van ‘et selve gemaect hebben, is in Rade met rijp advijs geconsidereert, off oock ons jachtie de Voerman tot die besendingh bequaam mochte g’ oordeelt werden om ‘et voor meermaals gen. eijlant en ons selve daarmede te versekeren, gemerckt de hier uijt ‘et vaderlant gedurigh verwachtede102 scheepen soo lange blijven tarderen, en wij ons selven daardoor van de derwaerts besendingh, ende besettelingen aldaar, van secoers, door ‘t verlopen van de mousson soude comen te ontbloten, maar alsoo noch swarigheijt, aangaande de Voerman in ‘t derwerts ve[r]senden aan d’ een en d’ ander sijde gemaact wert, en evenwel de saack ten aansien va[n] de mousson geen langer uijtstel is lijdende, soo hebben nadat de saeck rijpelijck overwo[gen] en de zee ervarene luijden daarover g’examin[eert], eijndelijck geconcludeert, dat na 6 a 8 dagen wagtens op vaderlantse scheepen en de selv[e] hier niet verschijnende, ‘t voor meermaals gen. jachtie de Voerman uijt hooghdringen[de] noot, claer te laten maeken, en tot de Mauritius besendinge om onse conschentie als[o] en de besettelingen aldaar voor ongeval te bevrijden, te gebruijcken, met vertrouwen ons sodanich hier in gequeten als den ware dienst van de E. Comp. sal comen te vereijsc[hen].
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaare voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
[Signed:] WILLEBOORT BOSSEE.
[Signed:] JAN BRETTAL.
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaare voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
[Signed:] WILLEBOORT BOSSEE.
[Signed:] JAN BRETTAL.