Cape Council of Policy
950
1692-11-27
Minute details
- Entry number
- 950
- Date
- 1692-11-27
- Year
- 1692
English translation
Various statements and interrogatories against Pieter Claasz Snel, skipper in the service of the E.Comp., on the ship IJtersheim anchored here at the wharf, submitted and read by Mr. C.J. Simons, fiscal nomine officij, at the meeting. After due deliberation, it has been understood and unanimously approved that the aforementioned ship shall lay sail, and that it shall sail without prejudice to the E.Comp. cannot be held up, nor could the said case be dealt with at a moment's notice and while running, at the defendant's request for a copy of the said documents, in his indictment, to be allowed to lie, not to enter, and to permit him only to take a look at the said documents at the home of Melchior Kemels, Secretary of the Councils of Justice, and to debate the matter here tomorrow at the meeting.
Thus arrested and decided at the Castle of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Present, J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secretary.
Original Dutch transcription
Verscheide verklaringen en interrogatorien ten laste van Pieter Claasz Snel, schipper in dienst der E.Comp., op ‘t hier ter rhede geankerde schip IJtersheim bescheiden, door mr. C. J. Simons, fiscâl nomine officij, ter vergadering overlegt en gelesen zijnde, So is na rijpe deliberatie verstaan en eenpariger stemme goedgevonden, gemerkt opgemelte schip seil-ree legt, en dat ‘t selve sonder nadeel van d’ E.Comp. niet kan opgehouden, nog geseide saak op een sprong en ter loop afgedaan werden, in des gedaagdens versoek van copie der geseide stukken t’ synen laste leggende, te mogen ligten, niet te treden en hem enelijk te vergunnen van geseide stukken ten huijse van Melchior Kemels, Secretaris van Raden van Justitie, visie te nemen en op morgen daar tegens hier ter vergadering debat te doen.
Aldus geärresteerd en besloten in ‘t Casteel de Goede Hoop ten dage en jare als boven.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] ANDS. DE MAN.
[Signed:] C. J. SIMONS.
[Signed:] W. PADT.
[Signed:] ADRIAEN VAN REEDE.
[Signed:] Me praesente J. G. DE GREVENBROEK, Secrts.