Cape Council of Policy
616
1679-04-23
Minute details
- Entry number
- 616
- Date
- 1679-04-23
- Year
- 1679
English translation
At 11 o'clock in the afternoon.
In accordance with the above-mentioned resolution adopted yesterday: It has also been taken into consideration in Council that the Noble Directors, at the meeting of the Seventeenth, dated 11 November 1678, kindly wrote to us,50 since, as before, by God's grace, we are experiencing peaceful times, it will be necessary for the garrison at the Cape to be reduced and curtailed as much as possible or practicable; and furthermore, it has also been deliberated that, since the apparent rupture with the King of Bantam will require the people in India as much as possible: therefore, for the aforementioned reasons, and to the satisfaction of their Noble. order at the service of the E.Compa., with common advice it has been deemed necessary to reduce the Cape garrison for the first time to the number of 60 military officers and to send them to Batavia at the first opportunity.
In accordance with the above-mentioned resolution adopted yesterday: It has also been taken into consideration in Council that the Noble Directors, at the meeting of the Seventeenth, dated 11 November 1678, kindly wrote to us,50 since, as before, by God's grace, we are experiencing peaceful times, it will be necessary for the garrison at the Cape to be reduced and curtailed as much as possible or practicable; and furthermore, it has also been deliberated that, since the apparent rupture with the King of Bantam will require the people in India as much as possible: therefore, for the aforementioned reasons, and to the satisfaction of their Noble. order at the service of the E.Compa., with common advice it has been deemed necessary to reduce the Cape garrison for the first time to the number of 60 military officers and to send them to Batavia at the first opportunity.
Original Dutch transcription
’s middags te 11 uiren.
Naar gedane resumptie van d’ op gisteren bovenstaande genomen resolutie: Soo is in Rade mede in consideratie genomen dat d’ Edle. Heeren Bewindhebberen ter vergaderinge van de Seventiene onder dato pmo. November 1678 ons hebben gelieven aan te schrijven,50 vermits nu als vooren door Godes genade een vreedige tijdt beleven, het noodich sal wesen dat ‘t guarnisoen aan de Caap soodanich werde gereduceert en besnoeijt als enichsints mogelijck off practicabel wesen sal; en daar nevens ooc in deliberatie geleijt sijnde dat vermits de apparente rupture met d’ Coninck van Bantam ‘t volck in India ten hoogsten noodich sal requireren: weshalven om d’ vooren g’allegeerde redenen, en in voldoening van haar Edle. ordre ten dienst van d’ E.Compa., met gemeen advis is noodich g’oordeelt ‘t Caapse guarnisoen voor eerst ten getalle van 60 militaire coppen te verminderen en d’ selve met d’ eerste gelegentheijt na Batavia te versenden.
Naar gedane resumptie van d’ op gisteren bovenstaande genomen resolutie: Soo is in Rade mede in consideratie genomen dat d’ Edle. Heeren Bewindhebberen ter vergaderinge van de Seventiene onder dato pmo. November 1678 ons hebben gelieven aan te schrijven,50 vermits nu als vooren door Godes genade een vreedige tijdt beleven, het noodich sal wesen dat ‘t guarnisoen aan de Caap soodanich werde gereduceert en besnoeijt als enichsints mogelijck off practicabel wesen sal; en daar nevens ooc in deliberatie geleijt sijnde dat vermits de apparente rupture met d’ Coninck van Bantam ‘t volck in India ten hoogsten noodich sal requireren: weshalven om d’ vooren g’allegeerde redenen, en in voldoening van haar Edle. ordre ten dienst van d’ E.Compa., met gemeen advis is noodich g’oordeelt ‘t Caapse guarnisoen voor eerst ten getalle van 60 militaire coppen te verminderen en d’ selve met d’ eerste gelegentheijt na Batavia te versenden.