Cape Council of Policy
93
1656-09-07
Minute details
- Entry number
- 93
- Date
- 1656-09-07
- Year
- 1656
English translation
Considering that nowadays the people here are rather sparsely provided with shirts, and that there is little left in stock at the E. Compe., the Commander and Council have seen fit not to leave the people in any distress, to have some shirts made from Guinean linen at the last minute, namely from each piece 12 men's shirts of 3/8 and 3 boys' shirts of 3 ells long, and to pay 6 stuivers for the sewing of each shirt, so that they will be nice wide and long full shirts, and the people can be provided on account for 1/2 Ra. of 51 stuivers each, by which then for the Compe. that linen also yields a greater profit than if it were issued whole pieces at face value. Moreover, such shirts are also much better and more pleasant for the people than the Dutch ones, which, due to their narrowness, coarseness, and curtness, are almost unusable for the people. Besides, they also suffer more from their burden, and by sewing these shirts, some diligent married women will also find it an opportunity to earn a penny outside of the loss or interest from the E. Compe., although everyone is still complaining and groaning about this place just as much. And as the wife of the sub-merchant Fredrick Verburch, the first to have requested the aforementioned benefit of the shirts,292 she was granted this, and for that purpose a consignment of limes293 was obtained by the salvage clerk: in order to deliver, as mentioned above, 15 such shirts from each piece of Guinean bodycloth, in good faith;
However, this benefit is also open to all married women residing here who will apply for it, and for that purpose this resolution is also shared and made available to them: to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity or benefit, to prevent grievances that one would be favored or favored more than another.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, Secrets.
However, this benefit is also open to all married women residing here who will apply for it, and for that purpose this resolution is also shared and made available to them: to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity or benefit, to prevent grievances that one would be favored or favored more than another.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
Gesien jegenwoordich alhier ‘t volcq vrij sober versien sijn van hemden, Item bij d’ E. Compe. oock weijnich meer op voorraet, soo is bij den Commandeur ende Raedt goet gevonden om de luijden in geen verlegentheijt te laten, eenige hemden met den alder eersten van Guinees linnen te doen maecken, namentlijcq uijt elck stucq 12 mans van 3/8 ende 3 jongens hemden van 3 ellen langh ende voor ‘t naijen van elck hemt te betalen 6 stuijvers, dat dan fraije breede ende lange volslagen hemden wesen sullen, ende ‘t volcq op reeckening cunnen verstreckt worden tot 1/2 Ra. van 51 stuijvers ijder, waer door als dan voor de Compe. op dat linnen oock noch al eenige meerder winst is, dan off het met de geheele stucken op reecqe. wert uijtgegeven, Item sulcke hemden oock vry beter ende aengenamer voor ‘t volcq als de vaderlantse die vermits hare smalte, groffte ende corticheijt bijna onbruijckbaer voor ‘t volcq sijn, Behalven dat deselve t’ haerder beswaernisse oock duijrder vallen ende aen ‘t naijen van dese hemden sommige naerstige getroude huijsgesinnen mede gelegentheijt vinden sullen om een stuijver buijten schade offte interest van d’ E. Compe. te verdienen, daer doch elck even seer aen dese plaetse noch over is clagende ende kreunende.
Ende alsoo de huijsvrouw van den ondercoopman Fredrick Verburch, d’ eerste sij die versocht heefft om die gemelte benefitie van de hemden temogennaijen,292 soo is haer sulcx toegestaen, ende ten dien eijnde partije linden293 door den soldijebouchouder in handen gelanght: omme gelijck versz uijt elck stuck Guinees lijwaet 15 soodanige hemden wel genaijt wederom te leveren;
Doch deselve benefitie oock opengestelt voor alle de hier woonende getroude vrouwen die daerom sullen versoecken ende ten dien eijnde dese resolutie aen deselve mede gedivulgeert ende cundich gemaeckt: om elck die gelegentheijt offte benefitie even schoon te setten, tot voorcominghe van clachtredenen dat d’ een meer als d’ ander soude gebeneficeert offte gefavoriseert worden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, Secrets.
Ende alsoo de huijsvrouw van den ondercoopman Fredrick Verburch, d’ eerste sij die versocht heefft om die gemelte benefitie van de hemden temogennaijen,292 soo is haer sulcx toegestaen, ende ten dien eijnde partije linden293 door den soldijebouchouder in handen gelanght: omme gelijck versz uijt elck stuck Guinees lijwaet 15 soodanige hemden wel genaijt wederom te leveren;
Doch deselve benefitie oock opengestelt voor alle de hier woonende getroude vrouwen die daerom sullen versoecken ende ten dien eijnde dese resolutie aen deselve mede gedivulgeert ende cundich gemaeckt: om elck die gelegentheijt offte benefitie even schoon te setten, tot voorcominghe van clachtredenen dat d’ een meer als d’ ander soude gebeneficeert offte gefavoriseert worden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1656.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1656.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN, Secrets.