Cape Council of Policy
487
1673-04-17
Minute details
- Entry number
- 487
- Date
- 1673-04-17
- Year
- 1673
English translation
Having been demonstrated by the Lord Governor at the meeting, how His E., during his presence at this location, had spent many and several times exhorting each of the ushers to perform their respective duties, and seriously recommended that they should properly perform these duties under penalty of great indignation, yet that, without the counter-appeal from the sub-merchant Willem van Dieden, (who had previously held the position and function of dispensary in addition to keeping the pay books), all good admonitions and threats of appeal had been contemptuously disregarded and rendered illusory, and he was still daily forced to debauchery and in the inns instead refraining from looking after his duties, and leaving everything to his clerical authority, as a result of which not only has the dispensary's administration continued in a completely sloppy and disorderly manner, but also the pay books of the past year have deteriorated to such an extent that they could not, without great difficulty, be brought so far as to be sent with the return fleet to the fatherland.
And since the aforementioned Van Dieden is related in manners, who shows so little regard for his duties, His E.R. inquires whether it would be best to release him. Having deliberated on this, His E.R.'s proposal is fully supported, and in accordance with the understanding, the E.R. Compe. to relieve such a servant,139 and to have him released without charge.
Thus arrested in the Fort of Goede Hoope,140 date uts.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ. SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. and Scrts.
And since the aforementioned Van Dieden is related in manners, who shows so little regard for his duties, His E.R. inquires whether it would be best to release him. Having deliberated on this, His E.R.'s proposal is fully supported, and in accordance with the understanding, the E.R. Compe. to relieve such a servant,139 and to have him released without charge.
Thus arrested in the Fort of Goede Hoope,140 date uts.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ. SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. and Scrts.
Original Dutch transcription
Door den Heere Gouverneur ter vergaederinge gedemonstreert zijnde, hoe Zijn E. geduirende desselfs aanwesen te deser plaatse, sigh veel en verscheijde maelen hadde verledigt, een ijeder der suppoosten tot het waernemen van haere respective diensten aan te manen, en op ‘t serieuste gerecommandeert, deselve wel en nae behoren te behertigen op pene van groote indignatie, dogh dat des niet jegenstaende bij den ondercoopman Willem van Dieden, (voor dato de plaets en bedieningh van dispensier nevens ‘t houden der soldijeboeken waergenomen hebbende) niet min als zulx naergecomen zijnde, alle goede vermaningen en dreijgementen van cassatie, veragtender wijs waeren in de wind geslaegen en illusoir gemaeckt, hem nogh daegelijx met debaucheren en in de herbergen in plaats van op zijn dienst te passen onthoudende, en alles op desselfs clercquen latende aancomen, waerdoor dan niet alleenigh ‘t bewind van dispensier gants slordigh en onordentelijc is voortgestaen, maer ooc d’ soldijboeken van den gepasseerden jare sodanigh verachtert, dat deselve niet sonder groote moeijten nu eens so verre sijn gebracht, om met de retour-vloot nae ‘t vaederlant versonden te connen werden:
Ende mitsdien genoemde Van Dieden in manieren verhaelt, sigh so weijnigh aen zijn dienst laat gelegen zijn, Soo geeft Zijn E. in omvraege, of niet best soude wesen denselven in vrijdom te stellen. Waerover dan gedelibereert zynde, is Zijn E. propositie in allen deelen g’advoijeert, en ingevolge verstaen, d’ E. Compe. van alsulcken dienaer te ontlasten,139 en buijten derselver costen in vrijdom t’ laten erneren.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Fort de GoedeHoope140 datum uts.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ. SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. ende Scrts.
Ende mitsdien genoemde Van Dieden in manieren verhaelt, sigh so weijnigh aen zijn dienst laat gelegen zijn, Soo geeft Zijn E. in omvraege, of niet best soude wesen denselven in vrijdom te stellen. Waerover dan gedelibereert zynde, is Zijn E. propositie in allen deelen g’advoijeert, en ingevolge verstaen, d’ E. Compe. van alsulcken dienaer te ontlasten,139 en buijten derselver costen in vrijdom t’ laten erneren.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Fort de GoedeHoope140 datum uts.
[Signed:] ISBRAND GOSKE.
[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.
[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ. SMIENDT.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP. In R. ende Scrts.