Cape Council of Policy
635
1679-12-23
Minute details
- Entry number
- 635
- Date
- 1679-12-23
- Year
- 1679
English translation
At 8 o'clock in the evening.
The Council, summoned by the Honourable Commander of this residence, was presented and proposed by His Honour, how His Honour had learned of the malicious scheme of the shopkeeper Martinus van Banchem. According to the charges and information already obtained by the taxman in this matter, he had neither failed to notice nor hesitated to use various fraudulent acts and roguery, in addition to the people more in demand, in order to collect wages for the common soldiers and sailors. to charge as effectively as they had already enjoyed, several persons here in garrison have already been admitted and charged him for what they had deemed too much, and satisfaction has also been received from him, from which it is concluded that she is sufficiently guilty of these offenses, wherefore she has proposed E.116 as aforesaid117 that one should not, the sooner the better, resort to the best and most expedient means; whereupon a joint resolution was reached to secure him and his residence from the inside and outside with sentries, as well as this evening by commissioners and the Secretary in the presence of the fiscal of the Comps. To place the cash register and winckell under his direction, along with all the books and papers related thereto, and furthermore to seal his private chests and boxes with the Company's seal, in order to deprive him of any further misconduct that might arise in this regard and to release the Company from any damage, to be subsequently recorded and inventoried, and further to instruct him not to leave his residence without special permission from the authorities, and to deprive him of all private claims from this and that person,118 and to take such care in this regard as may be deemed necessary for the benefit of the Company and the satisfaction of justice.119
Thus agreed in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
The Council, summoned by the Honourable Commander of this residence, was presented and proposed by His Honour, how His Honour had learned of the malicious scheme of the shopkeeper Martinus van Banchem. According to the charges and information already obtained by the taxman in this matter, he had neither failed to notice nor hesitated to use various fraudulent acts and roguery, in addition to the people more in demand, in order to collect wages for the common soldiers and sailors. to charge as effectively as they had already enjoyed, several persons here in garrison have already been admitted and charged him for what they had deemed too much, and satisfaction has also been received from him, from which it is concluded that she is sufficiently guilty of these offenses, wherefore she has proposed E.116 as aforesaid117 that one should not, the sooner the better, resort to the best and most expedient means; whereupon a joint resolution was reached to secure him and his residence from the inside and outside with sentries, as well as this evening by commissioners and the Secretary in the presence of the fiscal of the Comps. To place the cash register and winckell under his direction, along with all the books and papers related thereto, and furthermore to seal his private chests and boxes with the Company's seal, in order to deprive him of any further misconduct that might arise in this regard and to release the Company from any damage, to be subsequently recorded and inventoried, and further to instruct him not to leave his residence without special permission from the authorities, and to deprive him of all private claims from this and that person,118 and to take such care in this regard as may be deemed necessary for the benefit of the Company and the satisfaction of justice.119
Thus agreed in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] I present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Original Dutch transcription
’s Avonts ten 8 ueren.
Door den E.Hr.Commandeur deser residentie den Raadt geconvoceert ende daerin door sijn E. voorgedragen en geproponeert sijnde, hoe sijn E. van tersijden was ter kennisse gecomen het quade comportement van den winckelier Martinus van Banchem, dewelcke volgens de aenklachten en de informatien door den fiscaell reets in die saeck becomen hem niet ontsien noch geschroomt hadt in verstreckingh op reeckeninge van soldij aen de gemeene soldaten en matroosen verscheijde fraudeleuse actien en schelmstucken te gebruijcken met de luijden meerder op reecke. te belasten als effectivelijck hadden genooten, invoegen reets verscheijde persoonen alhier in guarnisoen bescheijden en hem voor ‘t geen daer haer te veell voor belast aengesproocken, en oock voldoeningh van dien becomen, waer uijt consteert dat sich genoeghsaem aen dese delicten schuldich kent, weshalven sy E.116 voornt. voorgesteltheeft117 off men niet behoorde hoe eer hoe liever daer in te versien op de beste en gevoeglijckste middelen; waer op dan eenparich is geresolveert verseeckeringh van desselffs persoon te nemen en sijn woningh van binnen en buijten met schiltwachten te verseeckeren, mitsgaders noch desen avont door gecommitteerdens en den Secretaris ten overstaen van den fiscaell ‘s Comps. cassa en winckell onder sijn directie staende met alle boecken en papieren daer aen dependerende en wijders sijn particuliere kisten en cassen met ‘s Comps. signet te versegelen, omme hem alle vordere quade handelinge die daer ontrent soude konnen in ‘t werck stellen, te beneemen en de Compa. van schade te bevrijden, om naderhant opgenomen en g’inventariseert te werden en hem wijders te injungeren niet sonder speciale last van de Overigheijt uijt sijn wooningh te gaen en hem vorders alle particuliere aenspraeck van dese en gene te benemen118 en daer ontrent soodanig[e] sorgh te dragen als men ten dienst van de Compa. en voldoeningh van de justitie sall bevinden nodigh te wesen.119
Aldus beraemt in ‘t Casteell de Goede Hoope, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.
Door den E.Hr.Commandeur deser residentie den Raadt geconvoceert ende daerin door sijn E. voorgedragen en geproponeert sijnde, hoe sijn E. van tersijden was ter kennisse gecomen het quade comportement van den winckelier Martinus van Banchem, dewelcke volgens de aenklachten en de informatien door den fiscaell reets in die saeck becomen hem niet ontsien noch geschroomt hadt in verstreckingh op reeckeninge van soldij aen de gemeene soldaten en matroosen verscheijde fraudeleuse actien en schelmstucken te gebruijcken met de luijden meerder op reecke. te belasten als effectivelijck hadden genooten, invoegen reets verscheijde persoonen alhier in guarnisoen bescheijden en hem voor ‘t geen daer haer te veell voor belast aengesproocken, en oock voldoeningh van dien becomen, waer uijt consteert dat sich genoeghsaem aen dese delicten schuldich kent, weshalven sy E.116 voornt. voorgesteltheeft117 off men niet behoorde hoe eer hoe liever daer in te versien op de beste en gevoeglijckste middelen; waer op dan eenparich is geresolveert verseeckeringh van desselffs persoon te nemen en sijn woningh van binnen en buijten met schiltwachten te verseeckeren, mitsgaders noch desen avont door gecommitteerdens en den Secretaris ten overstaen van den fiscaell ‘s Comps. cassa en winckell onder sijn directie staende met alle boecken en papieren daer aen dependerende en wijders sijn particuliere kisten en cassen met ‘s Comps. signet te versegelen, omme hem alle vordere quade handelinge die daer ontrent soude konnen in ‘t werck stellen, te beneemen en de Compa. van schade te bevrijden, om naderhant opgenomen en g’inventariseert te werden en hem wijders te injungeren niet sonder speciale last van de Overigheijt uijt sijn wooningh te gaen en hem vorders alle particuliere aenspraeck van dese en gene te benemen118 en daer ontrent soodanig[e] sorgh te dragen als men ten dienst van de Compa. en voldoeningh van de justitie sall bevinden nodigh te wesen.119
Aldus beraemt in ‘t Casteell de Goede Hoope, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] H. CRUDOP.
[Signed:] SMIENDT.
[Signed:] TOBIAS VLASVAT.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
[Signed:] Mij present A. DE MAN, Secrts.