Cape Council of Policy
50
1654-07-16
Minute details
- Entry number
- 50
- Date
- 1654-07-16
- Year
- 1654
English translation
Today, well and rightfully, by the Council of the fortress of Good Hope, one Jan Pietersz Soenwater, a sailor here on the spot, has been condemned by sentence to be severely flogged with rods and banished in chains for a year, because the hall where sermons and prayers are said, and a chest inside it, belonging to Pieter Borghers, the sheepkeeper on Robbeneijlandt, had been broken up, and from it much and various goods had been stolen. It is understood that. Sentence to be executed tomorrow, and the condemned to earn wages to secure the arraigned man's release, for which purpose it was also agreed to charge the aforementioned Soenwaeter to Pieter Borghers, the aforementioned man's account.
It has also been observed that the powder cellar on the Duijnhoop redoubt broke open on Sunday, and approximately 1/2 anchor of brandy belonging to the captain was stolen from it. of poor Jan van Harwaerden, who was given command of the aforementioned redoubt, and had his brandy stored in it to be safely preserved, and that at the same time no one other than one Willem Huijtjens had been on the aforementioned redoubt, who also became quite drunk that evening, from which it is justified that he must have committed the aforementioned theft, especially since the aforementioned Harwarden had replied that some damage had been done to his property that day, that he wanted to pay for everything, without, however, wanting to confess to the fault. So it is because no full proof could be obtained of it, and he has seen it himself. Presentation in compensation for the damages, that it has been agreed that the aforementioned Huijtjens, who had run away this day and was a reckless thief, had been executed with a hundred blows by stealing Compos' cattle and sheep, aka passado, by the tyrant, and that the damage to the brandy be charged to him on his account to the aforementioned Van Harwaarden.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.
[Signed:] PIETER MARTENSZ ABEK[E]RK.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.
It has also been observed that the powder cellar on the Duijnhoop redoubt broke open on Sunday, and approximately 1/2 anchor of brandy belonging to the captain was stolen from it. of poor Jan van Harwaerden, who was given command of the aforementioned redoubt, and had his brandy stored in it to be safely preserved, and that at the same time no one other than one Willem Huijtjens had been on the aforementioned redoubt, who also became quite drunk that evening, from which it is justified that he must have committed the aforementioned theft, especially since the aforementioned Harwarden had replied that some damage had been done to his property that day, that he wanted to pay for everything, without, however, wanting to confess to the fault. So it is because no full proof could be obtained of it, and he has seen it himself. Presentation in compensation for the damages, that it has been agreed that the aforementioned Huijtjens, who had run away this day and was a reckless thief, had been executed with a hundred blows by stealing Compos' cattle and sheep, aka passado, by the tyrant, and that the damage to the brandy be charged to him on his account to the aforementioned Van Harwaarden.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.
[Signed:] PIETER MARTENSZ ABEK[E]RK.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.
Original Dutch transcription
Heden wel ende ten rechten by den Raedt deser fortresse de Goede Hoope by sententie gecondemneert synde eenen Jan Pietersz Soenwater, matroos hier ter plaetse bescheyden, omme met roeden wel strengelijck gegeesselt ende voor een jaer langh in de kettingh gebannen te worden, over dat de zael daer ‘t sermoen ende gebedt gedaen wort, ende een kist daerin staende, toebehoorende den schaepenwachter op ‘t Robbeneijlandt , Pieter Borghers, opgebroocken, ende daer uijt veele ende verscheijden goet gestoolen had, Soo is verstaen do. Sententie op morghen ter executie te stellen, ende den gecondemneerden echter gagie te laeten winnen, omme den bestoolen tot syn guarandt daeruijt te doen comen, ten welcken eynde oock goetgevonden is voor ‘t bedragen van dien den voorsz Soenwaeter op syn reecqe. aen Pieter Borghers voorsz te belasten.
Wyders gesien dat de cruijtkelder op de redout Duijnhoop verganghen Sondach opgebroocken, ende daer uijt gestoolen is omtrent 1/2 ancker brandewijn, toebehoorende den capn. des armes Jan van Harwaerden die ‘t commando over de gemelte redout bevolen is, ende sijn brandewijn daerinne om welbewaert te wesen geborghen had, ende dat te selver tyt niemant anders als eenen Willem Huijtjens op de gemelte redout is geweest, die oock ‘s avonts heel beschoncken is geworden, waer uijt gesustineert wort hy de gemelte dieverye moet hebben gepleecht, te meer dewyle daer over van gemelten Harwarden aengesproocken wesende geantwoort hadde, soo hem dien dach eenighe schade aen syn goet was geschiet, dat het alles betalen wilde, sonder dat hy nochtans wil tot bekentenisse comen van ‘t faut, Soo is ‘t dewyle tot deselve geen volcomen preuve cunnen becomen, ende gesien desselffs presentatie tot vergoedinghe van de schade, dat goetgevonden is, den voorsz Huijtjens voor desen dach wechgeloopen ende genouchsame dieff geweest, met steelen van Comps. koebeesten ende schaepen ao. passado, met hondert slaeghen door den geweldigher te doen laerssen, ende voor de schade van de brandewyn hem op syn reecqe. aen de voorn. van Harwaerden te doen belasten.
Aldus gedaen, ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.
[Signed:] PIETER MARTENSZ ABEK[E]RK.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.
Wyders gesien dat de cruijtkelder op de redout Duijnhoop verganghen Sondach opgebroocken, ende daer uijt gestoolen is omtrent 1/2 ancker brandewijn, toebehoorende den capn. des armes Jan van Harwaerden die ‘t commando over de gemelte redout bevolen is, ende sijn brandewijn daerinne om welbewaert te wesen geborghen had, ende dat te selver tyt niemant anders als eenen Willem Huijtjens op de gemelte redout is geweest, die oock ‘s avonts heel beschoncken is geworden, waer uijt gesustineert wort hy de gemelte dieverye moet hebben gepleecht, te meer dewyle daer over van gemelten Harwarden aengesproocken wesende geantwoort hadde, soo hem dien dach eenighe schade aen syn goet was geschiet, dat het alles betalen wilde, sonder dat hy nochtans wil tot bekentenisse comen van ‘t faut, Soo is ‘t dewyle tot deselve geen volcomen preuve cunnen becomen, ende gesien desselffs presentatie tot vergoedinghe van de schade, dat goetgevonden is, den voorsz Huijtjens voor desen dach wechgeloopen ende genouchsame dieff geweest, met steelen van Comps. koebeesten ende schaepen ao. passado, met hondert slaeghen door den geweldigher te doen laerssen, ende voor de schade van de brandewyn hem op syn reecqe. aen de voorn. van Harwaerden te doen belasten.
Aldus gedaen, ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.
[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.
[Signed:] PIETER MARTENSZ ABEK[E]RK.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HARDENBERCH. 1654.
[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.