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1674-05-18

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Entry number
493
Date
1674-05-18
Year
1674

English translation

Also Haer Edle. our Lordships Majores at our general missive dated 15 October 7 ao. passo. please order the return fleet this year, after leaving for the Fatherland, to again provide some small ship or other, or 'hoeker', here at the works, to serve them when they come to sea from there, and such that the 'hoeker' d' Swemmer, who recently appeared from Ceylon and was also expressly destined for the Fatherland, was expected to be sufficient, but later reported as being badly sailed, the said fleet should have been out of service, but to the contrary, the small 'hoeker' d' Baars, present here with provisions from Batavia, is known to be a speedy ship. So, with the advice of the Rev. Hr. Councillor Extraordinary Sijbrant Abbema and the E. Commander Nicolaes d’Roij, primarily in the service of the E. Company, understand that the aforementioned hooker d’Baars above the aforementioned Swemmer will be added to the fleet and its cargo will be withheld to avoid spillage and other inconveniences, especially since the time and conditions of the ship do not permit transshipment. However, with the understanding that, having reached sea and having experienced the hooker, the Swemmer can be brought to the required service, in that case the Baars will be diverted back here, but if not, the same will be retained and taken along. Similarly, in accordance with the report of the aforementioned E. Commander de Rooij and other friends of Batavia who had come over, that the artillery, through the construction of many small ships, is very useful and necessary both in the same place and elsewhere in India, indeed almost ineligible, it has been approved and resolved that a good portion of the cannon, which, given the demolition of the old fort, will no longer be necessary, instead of allowing the fatherland to go to India at the first opportunity.

Thus done and resolved on the day and year of the aforesaid.

[Signed:] ISBRAND Goske.

[Signed:] SIBRT. ABBEMA.

[Signed:] NICOLAES DE ROIJ.

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[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.

[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.

[Signed:] H. CRUDOP, Secrets.

Original Dutch transcription

Alsoo Haer Edle. onse Heeren Majores bij derselver generale missive dato 15 October7 ao. passo. gelieven t’ordonneren de retourvloot desen jaare na ‘t Patria vertreckende weder ‘t een of ander cleijn scheepje off hoecker hier bij de werken zijnde mede te geven omme haer daer van in zee gecomen, te dienen ende sulcx d’hoecker d’ Swemmer nu jongst van Ceijlon verscheenen en mede expres na ‘t vaderlant gedestineert, was aengesien daer toe genoeg te wesen, doch naderhant gerapporteert werdende als slegt beseylt zijnde, de gemelte vloot maer ondienst daer aff soude hebben te verwagten maer ter contrarie ‘t aanwesende hoekertje d’ Baars met provisie van Batavia hier aengelant voor een vaerdig scheepje bekent staat, Soo is met advis van d E. Hr. Raad Extraordinaris Sijbrant Abbema en den E. Commandeur Nicolaes d’Roij ten meesten dienste van d’E. Compe. verstaan de geseijde hoeker d’ Baars boven d’ voors. de Swemmer de vloot sal werden bygevoegt en desselfs cargasoen inhouden om de spillagie en andere inconvenienten te mijden, te meer den tijt en den toestant van dien d’overschepinge niet toelaten can, met dien verstande nogtans dat in zee gecomen sijnde en ervarende van den hoecker de Swemmer den vereijsten dienst kan getrocken werden, in dat geval de Baars weder herwaarts te dimitteren, maer des neen, denselven aan te houden en voorts mede nemen.

Gelijc ooc op t rapport van voorgemelte E. .Commandeur de Rooij en andere overgecomen vrunden van Batavia dat het geschut door ‘t aantimmeren van veel cleyne scheepjes soo wel ter selver plaats als elders in India seer dienstig en van noden zij, ja bijna daer om verlegen vallen, goetgevonden en geresolveert is dat goet gedeelte van t canon, ‘t welck mits de demoliatie van t oude fort niet langer te pas comen sal, in plaats van ‘t vaderlant met d’eerste occasie naer India te laten overgaen.

Aldus gedaen en geresolveert ten dage en jaare voors.

[Signed:] ISBRAND Goske.

[Signed:] SIBRT. ABBEMA.

[Signed:] NICOLAES DE ROIJ.

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[Signed:] ALBERT VAN BREUGEL.

[Signed:] DIRCQ JANSZ SMIENDT.

[Signed:] H. CRUDOP, Secrets.