Cape Council of Policy
474
1672-10-10
Minute details
- Entry number
- 474
- Date
- 1672-10-10
- Year
- 1672
English translation
Having been deliberated, it is resolved, the order of the Lords Majores, contained in a seeker77 deed, dated in The Hague, 19th April of this year, by the said Her Nobility, the Councillor Extraordinary78 and Governor Isbrant Goske79 herewith given, to open here: containing, among other things, to have the ship Zuijt Polsbroeck stay here until further order, and to ship from the cargo to the flute vessels Saxenburg and Cattenburg the cash and all other goods, as these ships could suitably carry to Batavia: Her said Ede. Order to execute as soon as possible, with the aim of forcing Saxenburg to resume its journey the following Saturday. However, since no provision can be made for the arrival of Cattenburg, nor will any vacant space be available, and Saxenburg has little or no goods, as well as sufficient cargo from Zuijt Polsbroex, to ship it in its entirety to Saxenburg, so that Her Honor in Batavia might be served all the sooner.
Also to send there the gold consisting of 250 pistols, projected from the homeland for the slave trade to Angola, as it is inaccessible here and is useful for the Indian trade; in addition to ten tons of olive oil from our remaining supplies and a certain chest of copper, accidentally landed from the ship Middelburgh instead of a chest of shovels and spades; and that the 50 marc silver, or 908 1/2 Spanish reals, received from the fluyt marcs, will be retained for use from time to time for any other occasion. As per the previous mature deliberation, they understand that in three years no medicines, other than a small chest of extraordinary size, have been supplied, as a result of which the present are so destitute that the sick, with which 'hospital80 besides that of the garrison, from the passing ships, usually loaded in large numbers, could not be helped, besides which (God forbid) they also have at least some time to be prepared and equipped against the enemy's arrival: they also have no knowledge, nor can they make the slightest assumption, when the medicines will be sent from the homeland to South Polsbroek. Batavia is designated to raise as much as it needs at a later date.
Thus resolved in the Fortress of Good Hope on the day and year mentioned above.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] CONRAD VON BREITENBACH.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. and Scr.
Also to send there the gold consisting of 250 pistols, projected from the homeland for the slave trade to Angola, as it is inaccessible here and is useful for the Indian trade; in addition to ten tons of olive oil from our remaining supplies and a certain chest of copper, accidentally landed from the ship Middelburgh instead of a chest of shovels and spades; and that the 50 marc silver, or 908 1/2 Spanish reals, received from the fluyt marcs, will be retained for use from time to time for any other occasion. As per the previous mature deliberation, they understand that in three years no medicines, other than a small chest of extraordinary size, have been supplied, as a result of which the present are so destitute that the sick, with which 'hospital80 besides that of the garrison, from the passing ships, usually loaded in large numbers, could not be helped, besides which (God forbid) they also have at least some time to be prepared and equipped against the enemy's arrival: they also have no knowledge, nor can they make the slightest assumption, when the medicines will be sent from the homeland to South Polsbroek. Batavia is designated to raise as much as it needs at a later date.
Thus resolved in the Fortress of Good Hope on the day and year mentioned above.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] CONRAD VON BREITENBACH.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. and Scr.
Original Dutch transcription
Gedelibereert sijnde, is geresolveert, d’ ordre van d’ Heeren Majores, vervat bij seeker77 acte, gedateert in ‘s Gravenhage 19en April deses jaers, door gemelte Haer Edle. den Raadt Extraordinari78 en Gouverneur Isbrant Goske79 versegelt mede gegeven, om alhier gecomen ‘t openen: inhoudende onder anderen van het schip Zuijt Polsbroeck alhier te doen vertoeven tot naeder ordre, en uijt d’ ladinge in d’ fluijtscheepen Saxenburg en Cattenburg over te scheepen d’ contanten en al sodanige verdere goederen, als dese bodems bequaemelijck souden cunnen medevoeren naer Batavia: Haer Welgemelte Ede. bevel ten spoedigsten t’ executeren, ten dien eijnde alles daerop aengeleijt sall werden, Saxenburg aenstaende Saturdag te doen reijs vorderen, doch terwijl op d’ comste van Cattenburg geen staet is te maeken, noch oock off enige leedige ruijmte overigh hebben sal, en Saxenburgh geen off immers weijnig goederen inheeft, mitsgaders Zuijt Polsbroex cargasoen genoegsaem bergen kan, ‘t selve in ‘t geheel aan Saxenburgh over te scheepen, op dat also Haer Edle. tot Batavia des te eer daeraff souden mogen gedient wesen.
Soo oock te laten derwaerts gaen het gout bestaende uijt 250 pistoletten, uijt het vaderlant geprojecteert geweest tot den slavenhandel naer Angola , mits alhier onganckbae[r] en tot den handel van India dienstig zijnde; beneven thien aemen olijvenolij van onsen overigen voor[r]aad ende zeekere kist met coperwerck, bij abuijs in plaats van een kist schoppen en spaden uijt ‘t schip Middelburgh aen landt gecomen, ende dat d’ 50 marc silver ofte 908 1/2 Spaensche realen, benevens d’ voorseijde pistoletten uijt d’ fluijt Marcken ontvangen, sullen aenhouden om in tijdt en wijle tot d’ een off ander voorvallende besendinge te gebruijcken.
Gelijck mede naer voorgaande rijpe deliberatie verstaen sij, ten aensien in drie jaeren geen medicamenten dan alleen een cleijn kistgen extraordinari[e] gepetioneert hebben becomen, waerdoor present soo destituijt zijn, dat d’ sieken met d’welcke ‘thospitael80 buijten die van ‘t guarnisoen, uijt de passerende scheepen, doorgaens in groot getall beladen is, niet connen werden geholpen, daer besijden oock (Godt beter ‘t) althans een tijdt beleven, omme tegens d’ overcomste van den vijant geprepareert en versien te wesen: desgelijx geen kennisse hebben, noch d’ minste staet cunnen maeken, wanneer uijt het vaderlant sullen werden gesecondeert, uijt d’ medicamenten met Zuijt Polsbroeck naer Batavia gedestineert, soo veel te lichten, als enelijck tot naeder ontseth van noden hebben.
Aldus geresolveert in d’ Fortresse d’ Goede Hoop ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] CONRAD VON BREITENBACH.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. en Scr.
Soo oock te laten derwaerts gaen het gout bestaende uijt 250 pistoletten, uijt het vaderlant geprojecteert geweest tot den slavenhandel naer Angola , mits alhier onganckbae[r] en tot den handel van India dienstig zijnde; beneven thien aemen olijvenolij van onsen overigen voor[r]aad ende zeekere kist met coperwerck, bij abuijs in plaats van een kist schoppen en spaden uijt ‘t schip Middelburgh aen landt gecomen, ende dat d’ 50 marc silver ofte 908 1/2 Spaensche realen, benevens d’ voorseijde pistoletten uijt d’ fluijt Marcken ontvangen, sullen aenhouden om in tijdt en wijle tot d’ een off ander voorvallende besendinge te gebruijcken.
Gelijck mede naer voorgaande rijpe deliberatie verstaen sij, ten aensien in drie jaeren geen medicamenten dan alleen een cleijn kistgen extraordinari[e] gepetioneert hebben becomen, waerdoor present soo destituijt zijn, dat d’ sieken met d’welcke ‘thospitael80 buijten die van ‘t guarnisoen, uijt de passerende scheepen, doorgaens in groot getall beladen is, niet connen werden geholpen, daer besijden oock (Godt beter ‘t) althans een tijdt beleven, omme tegens d’ overcomste van den vijant geprepareert en versien te wesen: desgelijx geen kennisse hebben, noch d’ minste staet cunnen maeken, wanneer uijt het vaderlant sullen werden gesecondeert, uijt d’ medicamenten met Zuijt Polsbroeck naer Batavia gedestineert, soo veel te lichten, als enelijck tot naeder ontseth van noden hebben.
Aldus geresolveert in d’ Fortresse d’ Goede Hoop ten dage en jare voors.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] CONRAD VON BREITENBACH.
[Signed:] J. COON.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. en Scr.