Cape Council of Policy
583
1678-06-07
Minute details
- Entry number
- 583
- Date
- 1678-06-07
- Year
- 1678
English translation
Given that the ships Prince Willem Hendrick III and Tidoor, still moored here, have been fully prepared, and that their impotent patients have been reconvalesced in the hospital, it is generally agreed that the ship's service should be immediately discharged. Rumors have surfaced that a quantity of private goods (besides those already removed by the fiscal authorities of this residence) may still be present on the ship Prince Willem III, and that the high government of the Indies had previously been notified of this by the ship Den Briel. They presume that the Company's valuable ship will no longer be held up, as the service of the Dutch East Indies has been concerned.
The Hoecker de Bode has been projected towards the island of Mauritius to bring us a cargo of lime and timber from there, and considering that the season for undertaking this voyage is daily drawing nearer, it has been unanimously agreed that the said ship should be delivered by the middle of this month, also considering that the present chief there, Sr. Isaac Joannes Lamotius, has neglected to send a petition with the Hoecker de Bode to Batavia of what was needed there, and as a result they will be deprived of food and other necessities there. It has been arrested to keep them there out of embarrassment, to send the said Hoecker thither 2 loads of rice and 1 load of bread, and any other goods we deem necessary there, with a strong recommendation to the aforementioned chief that this will be the last time they will be provided with any grain or bread from here, but that, on the contrary, they must diligently endeavor to obtain their own bread by propagating grains, potatoes, beans, etc., for which this renowned fertile island will not lack resources, as it is by no means the intention of our Majors to continue supporting such expenses.
A Zeecker sergeant in garrison here, named Eldrich Laurens, was assigned the oversight of the people who had been forced to work in the forest here from the Dutch ships ashore. He was not afraid to deprive the people of their property under these and unsolicited threats, and to make them guilty of ugly, filthy sleaze. The Governor and Council saw fit to handle this matter politically and to suspend him from his office, position, and salary for the period of 6/10.
Furthermore, it was agreed upon in honor of the newly elected Noble. The Governor General has placed some bandits on Robben Island from the preceding period to increase their banishment.
Thus resolved at Fort de Goede Hoop, date above.
[Signed:] J. BAX, g.v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
The Hoecker de Bode has been projected towards the island of Mauritius to bring us a cargo of lime and timber from there, and considering that the season for undertaking this voyage is daily drawing nearer, it has been unanimously agreed that the said ship should be delivered by the middle of this month, also considering that the present chief there, Sr. Isaac Joannes Lamotius, has neglected to send a petition with the Hoecker de Bode to Batavia of what was needed there, and as a result they will be deprived of food and other necessities there. It has been arrested to keep them there out of embarrassment, to send the said Hoecker thither 2 loads of rice and 1 load of bread, and any other goods we deem necessary there, with a strong recommendation to the aforementioned chief that this will be the last time they will be provided with any grain or bread from here, but that, on the contrary, they must diligently endeavor to obtain their own bread by propagating grains, potatoes, beans, etc., for which this renowned fertile island will not lack resources, as it is by no means the intention of our Majors to continue supporting such expenses.
A Zeecker sergeant in garrison here, named Eldrich Laurens, was assigned the oversight of the people who had been forced to work in the forest here from the Dutch ships ashore. He was not afraid to deprive the people of their property under these and unsolicited threats, and to make them guilty of ugly, filthy sleaze. The Governor and Council saw fit to handle this matter politically and to suspend him from his office, position, and salary for the period of 6/10.
Furthermore, it was agreed upon in honor of the newly elected Noble. The Governor General has placed some bandits on Robben Island from the preceding period to increase their banishment.
Thus resolved at Fort de Goede Hoop, date above.
[Signed:] J. BAX, g.v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Original Dutch transcription
Aangesien de noch hier ter rheede leggende schepen Prins Willem Hendrick de derde en Tidoor t’ eenemael in gereetheijt sijn gebragt, mitsgaders haare aangebrachte impotenten in ‘t hospitael gereconvaliseert, Soo is ten meesten dienst der E.Compa. verstaan die bodem per eersten haar depesche te geven, werdende gerucht dat in ‘t schip Prins Willem noch een quantiteijt particuliere goederen (buijten de geene die reets door den fiscael deser residentie daar sijn uijtgehaelt) soude sijn verbleven en dewijle de hooge Indische regeringh daar vooraf met schip23 Den Briel is kennisse gedaan, Soo vermeenen om ‘s Comps. costelijcken bodem niet langer op te houden, daar omtrent den dienst van de E.Compa. te sijn betragt.
Den hoecker de Bode geprojecteert naer ‘t eijlandt Mauritius om ons van daar toe te brengen een ladingh calcq en timmerhout, en gemerct ‘t saijsoen om die vojagie t’ onderneemen dagelijcx seer begint te naderen, Soo is eenparigh verstaan gemelte bodemtje tegens medio deser maandt sijn depesche te geven insgelijcx geconsidereert dewijle door ‘t presente opperhooft aldaar Sr.Isaac Joannes Lamotius is versuijmt met de hoecker de Bode een petitie van ‘t geen aldaar benodigt was na Batavia te senden, en waardoor sij gevolglijck aldaar van vivres en andere nootsakelijckheden sullen wesen ontbloot, Soo is g’arresteert om haar aldaar uijt verlegentheijt te houden, met den gemelten hoecker derwaerts af te senden 2 lasten rijs en 1 last broot, en noch eenige andere goederen die wij oordeelen aldaar te vereijssen, met ernstige recommandat[ie] aan ‘t gemelte opperhooft dat dit de laaste mael sal wesen dat sij met eenige granen off broot van hier sullen werden geprovideert, maar dat sij in tegendeel met alle naarstigheijt sullen moeten tragten haar met het voortplanten van granen, patattes, boontjes &a haar eijgen brootcooren te connen winnen, waer toe op dat gerenomeerde vruchtbare eijlant geen middelen komen te gebreecken, alsoo de intentie van onse Heeren Majoores geensints is om noch langer soodanige onkosten te suporteeren.
Zeecker sargeant alhier in guarnisoen bescheijden, genaamt Eldrich Laurens, den welcken d[e] opsicht over ‘t volcq die van de vaderlantse scheepen alhier aan landt in ‘t bos hebben moeten arbeijden was aanbevoolen, hem niet ontsiende ‘t volcq onder dese en geene dreijgementen ‘t haare af te neemen, en aan leelijcke vuijle morsserijen schuldigh te maecken, sijnde bij den Gouverneur en Raadt goet gevonden dese saak politijcq af te handelen, en denselven voor den tijt van 6/m van sijn ampt, qualiteijt en gagie te suspendeeren.
Vorders is noch verstaan ter eeren van den nieuw gekooren Edle. Heer Gouverneur generael eenige banditen op ‘t Robbeneijlant geplaatst van den vorderen tijt, haarder bannissement te largeeren.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoop datum ut supra.
[Signed:] J. BAX g.v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Den hoecker de Bode geprojecteert naer ‘t eijlandt Mauritius om ons van daar toe te brengen een ladingh calcq en timmerhout, en gemerct ‘t saijsoen om die vojagie t’ onderneemen dagelijcx seer begint te naderen, Soo is eenparigh verstaan gemelte bodemtje tegens medio deser maandt sijn depesche te geven insgelijcx geconsidereert dewijle door ‘t presente opperhooft aldaar Sr.Isaac Joannes Lamotius is versuijmt met de hoecker de Bode een petitie van ‘t geen aldaar benodigt was na Batavia te senden, en waardoor sij gevolglijck aldaar van vivres en andere nootsakelijckheden sullen wesen ontbloot, Soo is g’arresteert om haar aldaar uijt verlegentheijt te houden, met den gemelten hoecker derwaerts af te senden 2 lasten rijs en 1 last broot, en noch eenige andere goederen die wij oordeelen aldaar te vereijssen, met ernstige recommandat[ie] aan ‘t gemelte opperhooft dat dit de laaste mael sal wesen dat sij met eenige granen off broot van hier sullen werden geprovideert, maar dat sij in tegendeel met alle naarstigheijt sullen moeten tragten haar met het voortplanten van granen, patattes, boontjes &a haar eijgen brootcooren te connen winnen, waer toe op dat gerenomeerde vruchtbare eijlant geen middelen komen te gebreecken, alsoo de intentie van onse Heeren Majoores geensints is om noch langer soodanige onkosten te suporteeren.
Zeecker sargeant alhier in guarnisoen bescheijden, genaamt Eldrich Laurens, den welcken d[e] opsicht over ‘t volcq die van de vaderlantse scheepen alhier aan landt in ‘t bos hebben moeten arbeijden was aanbevoolen, hem niet ontsiende ‘t volcq onder dese en geene dreijgementen ‘t haare af te neemen, en aan leelijcke vuijle morsserijen schuldigh te maecken, sijnde bij den Gouverneur en Raadt goet gevonden dese saak politijcq af te handelen, en denselven voor den tijt van 6/m van sijn ampt, qualiteijt en gagie te suspendeeren.
Vorders is noch verstaan ter eeren van den nieuw gekooren Edle. Heer Gouverneur generael eenige banditen op ‘t Robbeneijlant geplaatst van den vorderen tijt, haarder bannissement te largeeren.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoop datum ut supra.
[Signed:] J. BAX g.v. HERENTALS.
[Signed:] CRUDOP.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] Ms. VAN BANCHEM.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.