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Explanatory notes 1780-90:
In the amounts from 1780 on the followingdispatches to the Cape of Good Hope are included:
1782- 83:
1783- 84:
1784-85:
f l 600,000
1,200,000
f l 1,200,000
-
not specified.
not specified.
400,000 in drieguldens,
fl
-
1785-86: fl 600,000
-150,000indrieguldens, 300,000inguilders,75,000inhalfguilders,25,000indubbeltjesand50,000inreals.
-inreals.
1787-88:
Explanatory
fl 50,000
notes 1790-95:
-
600,000 in single guilders, 150,000 in half g u i l d e r s ^
stuivers (these in the table under double stuivers).
According to the res. Heren 17 of 24.4.1790 the chambers were on this date in arrears of fl 6,551,777 in shipments, fl 2,961,083 of this
amount on account of the Zeeland chamber. After 1790 it became more and more difficult to meet the demands, and several times the
Heren 17 decided that the chambers would not have to pay their full share. The following amounts were therefore not shipped: fl 1,322,136
in silver bars destined for Bengal, fl 700,000 in gold bars destined for Ceylon and fl 285,332 destined for the Cape of Good Hope. In
1793-94thechambersweretoldtogetridofthearrearsofcircafl2,000,000intheirshipmentstoBatavia.InNovember1794the Heren
17 estimated the necessary currency shipments at fl 3,500,000. By then however no money was available.
On several occasions the Amsterdam chamber was authorized, instead of shipping silver to Bengal and gold to Coromandel, to accept
draftsattheseoffices (e.g.in1780,1785and1786).ThegoldwasdestinedforCoromandelorCeylon,tobesentontothesouthcoastof
India for conversion into pagodas. The markrealen were destined for Canton. The schellingen were always from Zeeland, the dubbeltjes
from the Holland and Westfrisian mints.
After 1790 no more moneys were allocated for shipment to the Cape.
Sources:
VOC 188, res. Heren 17, 1.11.1780; V O C 189, id. 29.11.1781, 18.4 and 10.7.1782; V O C 190, id. 29.11.1782; V O C 192, id. 13.11.1783;
VOC 192, id. 14.5 and 20.11.1784; V O C 193, id. 2.5 and 16.11.1785; V O C 194, id. 6 and 25.4.1786; V O C 195, id. 19.12.1986; V O C 196,
id. 16.5 and 6.12.1787; V O C 197, id. 5.1 and 22.12.1788; V O C 199, id. 20.4, 29.10 and 20.11.1789; V O C 201, id. 4 and 12.12.1790; V O C
201, id.21 and 24.11 and 12.12.1791; VOC 203, id. 19.11 and 10.12.1792; VOC 205, id. 21.11.1793; VOC 207, id. 28.3 and 23.8.1794;
VOC4504,Haags Verbaal, 23.7.1787,2.7.1788,29.7.1789,18.8.1790;VOC4505,id.7.9.1792;VOC4552,ChinaCommitteetoG.G.and
R., 6.11.1780, 5.12.1782, id. to the Supercargo at Canton, 24.11.1783, id. to G.G. en R., 10.9.1784, 17.9.1785; V O C 4553, id. 8.7 and
19.11.1786, 17.12.1787, 8.11.1790, 25.10.1791,id.toSupercargo atCanton,6.11.1788, 10.11.1789; VOC4554, ChinaCommittee toG.G.
en R., 24.8.1792, 30.10.1793.