Cape Council of Policy
778
1686-05-08
Minute details
- Entry number
- 778
- Date
- 1686-05-08
- Year
- 1686
English translation
Praesentibus omnibus.
The tragic accident, which some Portuguese who arrived here today brought to the attention of the Honourable Commander, having befallen her on April 16th of last year, when their ship ran aground between Capes d'Agullas and Falso, has obliged his Honour, with his innate compassion and customary vigilance, to make the same known in Council, and to recommend to her Honourable Ho. the surest and most appropriate means to assist her Honourable Ho. in this matter. Eight, to free her from all dispute and disputing, and to protect the King of Portugal from harm to the best of her ability, and to keep his E. beyond all questionable backbiting and thoughts of mischief, and to escape such troubles as the stranding of the English ship Johanna in the year 1682 caused: It has been unanimously decided and approved, through Christian compassion, to despise the disasters of a pitiful shipwreck and the endured discomfort of this man, and to grant her, to the best of her ability and to the extent permitted by the orders of the Lords Masters, a helping hand during her stay here, and until such time as she may have found an opportunity to depart: in the meantime granting her the E. Comps. The sickhouse, now empty by God's grace and burdened with no patients, has been converted into lodgings and provided with necessary food and provisions on account. The residents here were strictly forbidden to sell anything to or trade with the sickhouse before the arrival of its captain and other officers, in order to prevent any crimes that might have been committed by its subjects regarding His Highness May's salvaged property. Furthermore, the fiscal and landdrost were to be seriously ordered to take strict care, and to have taken care, that no one of these residents should attempt to approach the wreck or the salvaged property under severe punishment.
Furthermore, the Hon. Commander in Council made known, how, upon the retrenching of his household4 and the reduction of his servants, three Comps. bondsmen or slaves were, upon request, set free, which was favorably granted to them in view of their faithful services since the presence of the aforementioned Mr. Commander and his E., proven, and all the more so, since all three were begotten of German fathers5 and received the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, and one of them is a willing member of the Reformed Church, and that the other is able to follow her in this, and that not without the utmost danger of their destruction by these wretched people again after Comps. slave house and among those rough and pagan nations.
And since the position of Secretary of the Commissioners of Small Affairs became vacant due to the departure of the former dispensary, Joh. Blesius, it was assigned to his replacement, Christian Freser.
And finally, sailor Jan Laurenz of Amsterdam, who deliberately allowed the return ship Goudenstein, while he was on his guard, to be unsailed and moored here in the countryside, was sentenced to work for six months without pay at the Royal Engineers' works here.
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope, for the year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. COLOGNE.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] My praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROECK, Secret.
[Signed:] SATURNI.
The tragic accident, which some Portuguese who arrived here today brought to the attention of the Honourable Commander, having befallen her on April 16th of last year, when their ship ran aground between Capes d'Agullas and Falso, has obliged his Honour, with his innate compassion and customary vigilance, to make the same known in Council, and to recommend to her Honourable Ho. the surest and most appropriate means to assist her Honourable Ho. in this matter. Eight, to free her from all dispute and disputing, and to protect the King of Portugal from harm to the best of her ability, and to keep his E. beyond all questionable backbiting and thoughts of mischief, and to escape such troubles as the stranding of the English ship Johanna in the year 1682 caused: It has been unanimously decided and approved, through Christian compassion, to despise the disasters of a pitiful shipwreck and the endured discomfort of this man, and to grant her, to the best of her ability and to the extent permitted by the orders of the Lords Masters, a helping hand during her stay here, and until such time as she may have found an opportunity to depart: in the meantime granting her the E. Comps. The sickhouse, now empty by God's grace and burdened with no patients, has been converted into lodgings and provided with necessary food and provisions on account. The residents here were strictly forbidden to sell anything to or trade with the sickhouse before the arrival of its captain and other officers, in order to prevent any crimes that might have been committed by its subjects regarding His Highness May's salvaged property. Furthermore, the fiscal and landdrost were to be seriously ordered to take strict care, and to have taken care, that no one of these residents should attempt to approach the wreck or the salvaged property under severe punishment.
Furthermore, the Hon. Commander in Council made known, how, upon the retrenching of his household4 and the reduction of his servants, three Comps. bondsmen or slaves were, upon request, set free, which was favorably granted to them in view of their faithful services since the presence of the aforementioned Mr. Commander and his E., proven, and all the more so, since all three were begotten of German fathers5 and received the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, and one of them is a willing member of the Reformed Church, and that the other is able to follow her in this, and that not without the utmost danger of their destruction by these wretched people again after Comps. slave house and among those rough and pagan nations.
And since the position of Secretary of the Commissioners of Small Affairs became vacant due to the departure of the former dispensary, Joh. Blesius, it was assigned to his replacement, Christian Freser.
And finally, sailor Jan Laurenz of Amsterdam, who deliberately allowed the return ship Goudenstein, while he was on his guard, to be unsailed and moored here in the countryside, was sentenced to work for six months without pay at the Royal Engineers' works here.
Thus arrested and confined in the Castle of Good Hope, for the year and day as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. COLOGNE.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] My praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROECK, Secret.
[Signed:] SATURNI.
Original Dutch transcription
Praesentibus omnibus.
‘t Deerlijk ongeval, dat enige heden alhier gearriveerde Portugesen den E.Hr. Commandeur bekendt gemaackt hebben, haar op den 16 April jongst, door ‘t stranden van derselver schip, tusschen de Capen d’ Agullas en Falso overkomen te zijn, heeft sijn E. verplight ‘t selve volgens an geboren mededogentheid en gewoonlijke vigilantie in Raade bekendt te maken, en haar Achtb. voor te dragen de sekerste en bekwaamste middelen om in dit voorval haar Edle. Ho. Acht, van alle an en naspraak te bevrijden, en des Konings van Portugal schade na vermogen te verhoeden, en sijn E. buijten alle bedencklijke aghterklap en gedaghten van wandevoir te houden, en om t’ ontgaan alsulcke moeijelij[k]heden als ‘t stranden van ‘t Engelsch schip de Johanna in den jaare 1682 veroorsaack[t] heeft: So is met eenparige stemmen besloten en goedgevonden door een Christelijk medelijden de rampen van een beklaaghlijke schipbreuk en gelede ongemacken deser menschen te versagten, en haar na vermogen en voor so veel d’ ordres van de Heeren Meestren komen toe te laten, de behulpsame hand ten tijde hares verblijfs alhier, en tot dat gelegentheid om te vertrecken sullen gevonden hebben, an te bieden: sullende haar middelerwijl der E.Comps. sieckenhuijs, thans door Gods genade ledig en met egeen patienten beladen, tot logis ingeruijmt en van nodig onderhoud en levensmiddelen op rekening verstreckt, en an d’ ingeseten alhier scharpelijk verboden werden iets voor d’ ankomst van haar capitain en verdere officieren an deselve te verkopen, of met haar te handelen, om daar door voor te komen alle misdrijven die omtrent sijn Hooggemte. Maijts. geborge goederen door desselfs ondersaten mogten gepleeght zijn, mitsgs. om den fiscaal en landdrost wel ernstlyk te bevelen nauwkeurig aght te nemen en te laten nemen, dat niemand deser ingeseten sig ondersta ‘t wrack of de geborge goederen onder sware straffe te naderen.
Verders heeft d’ E.Hr. Commandeur in Raade bekent gemaackt, hoe bij ‘t retrencheeren van sijn huijshouding4 en ‘t verminderen syner dienstboden, drie Comps. lijfeijgene of slavinnen bij requeste versogten in vrijdom gesteld te mogen werden, ‘t welcke haar gunstelijk ten ansien harer trouwe diensten zederd ‘t anwesen van den welgemelte Hr. Commandeur an sijn E. bewesen, is toegestaan, en dies te mee[r], dewijl alle drievan Duijtsche vaders gegenereerd en5 ‘t Heilige Sacrament des Doops ontfangen hebben, en een derselver bereids lidmaat der Gereformeerde Gemeente is, en dat d’ andere haar hier in staa[n] te volgen, en dat niet sonder ‘t uijterste gevaar hares verdervs dese rampsalige menschen wederom na Comps. slavenhuijs en onder die ruijge en heidensche natien konnen gebraght werden.
En nademaal door ‘t vertreck des gewesen dispensiers, Joh. Blesius, de plaats van Secretaris der Commissarissen van kleine saken is komen te vaceren, is die plaats an sijn vervanger Christian Freser opgedragen.
En eindelijk is de matroos Jan Laurenz van Amsterdam, die moedwillig ‘t retourschip Goudenstein , daar hij op bescheide[n] was, sig heeft laten ontseilen en alhier ten platten lande aangehaald, is6 gecondemneerd een halv jaar buijten gagie an d’ E.Comps. wercken alhier t’ arbeiden.
Aldus gearresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROECK, Secrt.
[Signed:] SATURNI.
‘t Deerlijk ongeval, dat enige heden alhier gearriveerde Portugesen den E.Hr. Commandeur bekendt gemaackt hebben, haar op den 16 April jongst, door ‘t stranden van derselver schip, tusschen de Capen d’ Agullas en Falso overkomen te zijn, heeft sijn E. verplight ‘t selve volgens an geboren mededogentheid en gewoonlijke vigilantie in Raade bekendt te maken, en haar Achtb. voor te dragen de sekerste en bekwaamste middelen om in dit voorval haar Edle. Ho. Acht, van alle an en naspraak te bevrijden, en des Konings van Portugal schade na vermogen te verhoeden, en sijn E. buijten alle bedencklijke aghterklap en gedaghten van wandevoir te houden, en om t’ ontgaan alsulcke moeijelij[k]heden als ‘t stranden van ‘t Engelsch schip de Johanna in den jaare 1682 veroorsaack[t] heeft: So is met eenparige stemmen besloten en goedgevonden door een Christelijk medelijden de rampen van een beklaaghlijke schipbreuk en gelede ongemacken deser menschen te versagten, en haar na vermogen en voor so veel d’ ordres van de Heeren Meestren komen toe te laten, de behulpsame hand ten tijde hares verblijfs alhier, en tot dat gelegentheid om te vertrecken sullen gevonden hebben, an te bieden: sullende haar middelerwijl der E.Comps. sieckenhuijs, thans door Gods genade ledig en met egeen patienten beladen, tot logis ingeruijmt en van nodig onderhoud en levensmiddelen op rekening verstreckt, en an d’ ingeseten alhier scharpelijk verboden werden iets voor d’ ankomst van haar capitain en verdere officieren an deselve te verkopen, of met haar te handelen, om daar door voor te komen alle misdrijven die omtrent sijn Hooggemte. Maijts. geborge goederen door desselfs ondersaten mogten gepleeght zijn, mitsgs. om den fiscaal en landdrost wel ernstlyk te bevelen nauwkeurig aght te nemen en te laten nemen, dat niemand deser ingeseten sig ondersta ‘t wrack of de geborge goederen onder sware straffe te naderen.
Verders heeft d’ E.Hr. Commandeur in Raade bekent gemaackt, hoe bij ‘t retrencheeren van sijn huijshouding4 en ‘t verminderen syner dienstboden, drie Comps. lijfeijgene of slavinnen bij requeste versogten in vrijdom gesteld te mogen werden, ‘t welcke haar gunstelijk ten ansien harer trouwe diensten zederd ‘t anwesen van den welgemelte Hr. Commandeur an sijn E. bewesen, is toegestaan, en dies te mee[r], dewijl alle drievan Duijtsche vaders gegenereerd en5 ‘t Heilige Sacrament des Doops ontfangen hebben, en een derselver bereids lidmaat der Gereformeerde Gemeente is, en dat d’ andere haar hier in staa[n] te volgen, en dat niet sonder ‘t uijterste gevaar hares verdervs dese rampsalige menschen wederom na Comps. slavenhuijs en onder die ruijge en heidensche natien konnen gebraght werden.
En nademaal door ‘t vertreck des gewesen dispensiers, Joh. Blesius, de plaats van Secretaris der Commissarissen van kleine saken is komen te vaceren, is die plaats an sijn vervanger Christian Freser opgedragen.
En eindelijk is de matroos Jan Laurenz van Amsterdam, die moedwillig ‘t retourschip Goudenstein , daar hij op bescheide[n] was, sig heeft laten ontseilen en alhier ten platten lande aangehaald, is6 gecondemneerd een halv jaar buijten gagie an d’ E.Comps. wercken alhier t’ arbeiden.
Aldus gearresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop, jaar en dag als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] J. v. KEULEN.
[Signed:] O. BERGH.
[Signed:] A. V. BREUGEL.
[Signed:] L. v. STEL.
[Signed:] CORNLS. LINNES.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROECK, Secrt.
[Signed:] SATURNI.