Cape Council of Policy
431
1670-08-12
Minute details
- Entry number
- 431
- Date
- 1670-08-12
- Year
- 1670
English translation
Unexpectedly, we had hoped from time to time that the dispenser Sr. Anthoni de Raaff would somehow recover from his long-standing illness and that consequently he would once again be able to take over his administration. However, we, God forbid, experience the opposite, such that his indisposition and impotence not only continues for the time being, but increases more and more from time to time, and because the visibility and accessibility of the Comps. warehouses, since his illness, have been entrusted to his butler, who for some time now has also fallen into a rather irregular and disorderly life, this does not seem to be without great difficulty, if an important136 manages, to the aforementioned de Raaff's responsibility, to entrust him with it any longer. In consideration of this, it has been resolved by the Council, in order to avert as much as possible all worries and difficulties that might be feared in his regard, on the presentation of the merchant Sr. de Cretser, therefore, ordered here in Rade to collect the same, and that the keys of all the warehouses, including the aforementioned de Raaff, be handed over to the aforementioned Sr. de Cretser, who, during the aforementioned Raaff's indisposition, or if otherwise resolved by the Council in due time, will oversee and direct the matter, and consequently establish proper order for everything.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforementioned.
[Signed:] PIETER HACKIUS. 1670.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] Present to me. H. CRUDOP. Secrts.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hoope on the day and year aforementioned.
[Signed:] PIETER HACKIUS. 1670.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] Present to me. H. CRUDOP. Secrts.
Original Dutch transcription
Onaangesien van tijt tot tijt hadden verhoopt, dat den dispencier Sr. Anthoni de Raaff eeniger wijs van sijne langduijrige siekte soude gereconvalesceert ende sulx bij gevolg het waernemen van sijn administratie wederom magtigh geworden sijn, Soo is ‘t nogtans dat ons, Godt beter ‘t, het contrarie ervaert, zulx dat desselfs indispositie ende impotentheijd, niet alleenig voor alsnog blijft continueren, maer van tijt tot tijt meer en meer toeneemt, ende vermits d’ opsigt en toegank van ‘s Comps. pakhuijsen, sedert desselffs siekte, aan sijn bottelier is toevertrout geweest, d’welke nu eenigen tijt herwaerts mede al vrij wat in een ongeregelt ende gedeboucheert leven is comen te vervallen, sulx niet sonder groote diffidentie schijnt te wesen, soo een inportant136 bewint, tot voornoemde de Raaffs verandwoordinge, deselve langer toe te vertrouwen, Soo is in consideratie van dien bij den Raat, om so veel doenlik sij voor te coomen alle becommeringe ende swaerigheden, die ten reguarde van dien soude mogen te beduchten staan, geresolveert, op de presentatie van den coopman Sr. de Cretser, deshalven alhier in Rade gedaan, deselv[e] te amplecteren, ende dat de sleutels van alle de pak-huijsen onder meergemelte de Raaff sorterende, aan voors. Sr. de Cretser, sullen werden overgelevert, die, geduijrende voors. sijne Raaffs indispositie, ofte dat anders in der tijt bij den Raat soude mogen werden geresolveert, d’ opsigt en directie daerover sal voeren, ende sulx gevolgelik op alles behoorlijke ordre stellen.
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] PIETER HACKIUS. 1670.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] Mij present. H. CRUDOP. Secrts.
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] PIETER HACKIUS. 1670.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] J. GRANAAT.
[Signed:] Mij present. H. CRUDOP. Secrts.