Dissertation_A Bick_May 25 - DataSpace at Princeton University
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thereafter. 49 His appeal presumably stemmed from this service, and perhaps also from<br />
Groningen's rel<strong>at</strong>ively neutral st<strong>at</strong>us in the long-running feud between the Amsterdam and<br />
Zeeland chambers of the company.<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong>ever the Company saw in him, however, was not reciproc<strong>at</strong>ed. Julsinck refused the<br />
position outright, on the r<strong>at</strong>her flimsy grounds th<strong>at</strong> he was bound by o<strong>at</strong>h to serve out the<br />
remainder of his term as Burgemeester of Groningen. 50 By this time it was already l<strong>at</strong>e June and<br />
the company's directors, along with the St<strong>at</strong>es General, were getting anxious. The selection<br />
process had taken far too long, and little more had been achieved in the intervening months; with<br />
winter approaching, it would soon be too l<strong>at</strong>e to disp<strong>at</strong>ch the new council to Brazil. In April the<br />
directors had raised the President's salary from 1,000 to 1,<strong>25</strong>0 guilders per month—a<br />
considerable sum, against which the directors of the North Holland chamber vigorously<br />
protested—in the hope of <strong>at</strong>tracting qualified candid<strong>at</strong>es. 51 Their first two choices had refused<br />
even this. No records remain for the discussions with candid<strong>at</strong>es three and four: Albert Ruyl,<br />
Stadspensionaris (Pensionary) of the city of Haarlem, and Nanning de Keyser, Secretaris of the<br />
city of Hoorn. 52 But presumably they refused also, perhaps priv<strong>at</strong>ely, for Hendrick van der<br />
Capellen reported to the St<strong>at</strong>es General in l<strong>at</strong>e July th<strong>at</strong> no candid<strong>at</strong>e had yet agreed to the<br />
position and th<strong>at</strong> the m<strong>at</strong>ter would have to await resolution <strong>at</strong> the next meeting of the Heren XIX,<br />
scheduled to take place in Middelburg in September. 53<br />
<br />
49<br />
Groninger Archief 1700 inv.nr. 16, Lijst van Gezagdragers vermeld in het Regeringsboek afkomstig uit het<br />
Gemeente-Archief Groningen, 1594-ca. 1811, 81.<br />
50<br />
NA 1.01.07 inv.nr. 1<strong>25</strong>64.17, Extract van de vergadering van de Heren XIX, 27 Juny 1645.<br />
51<br />
Ibid., Extract wt die secrete notulen der vergaderinge der Negentien t' Amsterdam gehouden zeder de 22 April<br />
1645. Boxer st<strong>at</strong>es th<strong>at</strong> Maurits' salary had been 1500 guilders per month, plus expenses, though proposals drafted in<br />
1636 list the astonishing sum of 50,000 guilders per year. See NA 1.01.07, inv.nr. 1<strong>25</strong>64.20; Boxer, The Dutch in<br />
Brazil, 1624-1654, 69.<br />
52<br />
Ibid.<br />
53<br />
NA 1.01.07 inv.nr. 1<strong>25</strong>64.17, Rapport Sommierlyck gedaen by die Heeren vander Cappelen toe-Ryssel, Herbers,<br />
en Nykerck van di principaelste Poincten inde besoignes van die vergaderinge der Negentien t'Amsterdam<br />
voorgevallen zeder Martio 1645.<br />
149