Cape Council of Policy
764
1685-09-12
Minute details
- Entry number
- 764
- Date
- 1685-09-12
- Year
- 1685
English translation
To the designated and now already appointed fiscal of this Commandment, Mr. Joannes van Ceulen95, after the ordinary evening prayer in Rade, to make a proposal how he, in the said capacity, had been accepted by the Honorable Gentlemen Majores at the meeting of the 17th and arrived in this country as a follower and had already begun to establish his ministry, with the request that his Honorable Gentlemen be shown a suitable residence for him and his family, such as his predecessors of the Company had enjoyed; to which he was first replied, both inside and outside the Castle of the Company. no residence was available, to which he added in his previous request that he had been informed that the sick visitor and schoolmaster of this location was planning to leave for Batavia with his family within a few days, and that the residence, if not absolutely, could be provisionally made available to him until the arrival of the Commander, or until a more suitable location could be assigned to him; but consider that the aforementioned residence, designated by the High Honorable Hendrick Adriaen van Reede, Lord of Mijdrecht & Co., representing the meeting of the 17th as Commissioner, has been appointed as a residence for the schoolmaster to hold the school there, and we do not consider ourselves qualified to do so. to dispense with the order, but on the contrary, they are obligated to comply with it in full to the best of their ability. However, on his E.'s great authority, and that in private matters no residence can be obtained, and that it must nevertheless be under cover, to accommodate him as much as possible, and on the other hand to remain outside reproach, it has been approved by his E. to vacate half of the residence, without prejudice to the fact that the schoolmaster, who will be placed there in place of the one about to depart, will enjoy the other half for himself and for the running of the school, and all this until further approval by the Commander when his E. returns.
Thus done and resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] ANDS. THE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
Thus done and resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] ANDS. THE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
Original Dutch transcription
Den gedesigneerde en nu reets aangestelde fiscaal dezes Commandements Mr. Joannes van Ceulen95 na ‘t ordinarij avontgebet in Rade comende voorstel te doen, hoe hij in gemelte qualiteijt bij de Ed. Heeren Majores ter vergaderingh van de 17e was aangenomen en gevolghlijck hier te lande gekomen en reets aanvanck van sijn bedieningh hadde beginnen te maken, met versoeck dat sijn E. een bequaam woonhuijs voor hem en sijn familie, gelijck als sijn praedecesseurs van de Comp. hadden genooten, moghte werden aangewesen; waar op hem voor eerst wiert gerepliceert, soo binnen als buijten ‘t Casteel van de Comp. geen woonhuijs open te staan, waar op hij verders bij sijn voorigh versoeck voegde dat hij was g’informeert den kranckbesoecker en schoolmeester deser plaatse binne weijnige dagen met sijn familie van hier na Batavia stont te vertrecken, en dat hem die wooningh, was ‘t niet absoluijt, provisioneel moght werden ingeruijmt tot d’ komste van d’ Hr. Commandeur, tot datter nader occasie moghte aan de handt komen om hem een bequamer plaats aan te wijsen; maar geconsidereert ‘t voorn. woonhuijs door den Hoog Ed. Heer Hendrick Adriaen van Reede, Heer van Mijdrecht &a., representeerende de vergaderinge van de 17 als Commissaris, is aangestelt tot een woonhuijs voor den schoolmeester om daar de school te houden, en wij ons niet kennen gequalificeert om van sijn Hoog Ede. ordres te dispenseeren, maar in tegendeel verobligeert sijn die in ‘t geheel na vermogen na te komen, Soo is eghter op sijn E. groote instantie en dat bij particuliere mede geen wooningh can obtineren en egter onder dack dient te wesen, om hem soo veel te accommoderen als doenlijck is, en aan de andere kant mede buijten reproche te blijven, goetgevonden sijn E. de helft van ‘t woonhuijs voornt. in te ruijmen, onvermindert noghtans dat den schoolmeester, die in plaats van den te vertrecken staande, daar in sal werden geplaast, d’ wederhelft voor hem en tot het houden der school sal genieten en dat alles tot nader approbatie van den Heer Commandeur wanneer sijn E. weder sal te rugh gecomen wesen.
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.
Aldus gedaan en geresolveert in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] J. H. BLUM.