Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA A139
Title
Court of Justice (Cape of Good Hope) records
Date(s)
- 1800 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
manuscriptExtent193 pages
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Criminal claim and conclusion made and demanded by the fiscal versus Marthinus Prinsloo and his accomplices. 1800 August 29. Document signed by W.S. van Ryneveld.
Contains pronouncement of sentence on 3 September 1800 against Marthinus Prinsloo, Adriaan van Jaarsveld and 16 others for their part in the armed rebellion in the Graaff Reinet district and inventory of documents used. Prinsloo and van Jaarsveld were sentenced to death but the sentences were not carried out.