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Record #565	Date
1255-10-11
Location		Type of Document
OAR13, 15v-a		Brief
Text
Willhelmus dei gratia Romanorum rex, semper augustus, univers. present. litteras inspecturis sou auditur gratiam suam et omne bonum. Utilitatem et comodum nostrorum fidelium plurimum affectantes, pro com. utilitate ipsorum sic duximus statuendum, tenore presentium protestantes et firmitur promittentes quod nullum mea[tum] aquarum sive transitum qui spoya vulgariter nuncupatur, apud Sparendam fieri faciemus nec vel aliquid et iam immutabimus vel faciemus circa Sparendam, Zijdewinde et Aggerem Marinum qui Zedijc vulgariter nuncupatur, ende Zuademburgdam absque communi consilio eorum consiliariorum nuncupantur, videlicet eorum qui nunc sunt et qui pro tempore sunt futuri. Ad cuius rei testimonium et memoriam evidentem, ut prenissa omnia firma et illibata permaneant, presentes literas exinde conscribi et sigillo maiestatis nostre jussimus communiri. Datem Leyde V id. octobris, indictione xiiii, anno domini m cc lv.
English Summary
Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Keywords
willem ii, count; spaarndam; zeedijk; spaarndammerdijk; zwammerdam; zijdwinde; jurisdiction; heemraden
Notes
Original in OAR854. Published in OHZ, II, no. 1067; van Mieris, I, p. 293, among many others. See van Amstel-Horßk and Lombarts), p. 1.
Keyword Threads			Seq / Count	First	Prev	Next
heemraden			1 / 13			1255
jurisdiction			1 / 11			1255
spaarndam			2 / 55	1253	1253	1255
spaarndammerdijk			1 / 36			1255
willem ii, count			2 / 3	1253	1253	1255
zijdwinde			1 / 9			1255
zwammerdam			1 / 7			1255

 

Record #568	Date
1255-10-11
Location		Type of Document
OAR13, 17r-a		Brief
Text
Willem bider ghenaden goidt der Romeynen [..................................] die desen sullen sien of horen lesen sijn genad [...........................] onser lande ghetouwer om horen ghemenen oerbair heb[........................] brieve ende vastelic to lovende datmen ghenre waterganc die spo[............] sullen laten maken noch wi en sullen oec niet verwandelen of de [.......Zijd] wijnde, Zee dijc ende Zwamerdam sonder ghemenen raet der ghe[...............] sijn of namaels wesen sullen. Tot welkertuge ende ghemeenre den [..........] dinghen vast ende gestade bliven hebben si dese brieff doen scriven ende [..] moghentheyt doen vestigen, ghegheven te Leyden in jaer ons heren m [cc xxv]
English Summary
Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Keywords
willem ii, count; spaarndam; hoge zeedijk; spaarndammerdijk; zwammerdam; zijdwinde; jurisdiction; heemraden
Notes
Original in OAR854.
Keyword Threads			Seq / Count	First	Prev	Next
heemraden			2 / 13	1255	1255	1394
hoge zeedijk			1 / 34			1286
jurisdiction			2 / 11	1255	1255	1394
spaarndam			3 / 55	1253	1255	1286
spaarndammerdijk			2 / 36	1255	1255	1405
willem ii, count			3 / 3	1253	1255
zijdwinde			2 / 9	1255	1255	1286
zwammerdam			2 / 7	1255	1255	1286

 

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Record #569	Date
1253-04-09
Location		Type of Document
OAR13, 17r-b		Brief
Text
Wij willem grave van Henegouwen, van Hollant, van zeelant ende [here van Vrieslant doen condt] allen lude dat wi een hantveste vanden ------ onse vordere -- [............] sprekende van woerde te woerde als hier na gescreven staet. 'Wij [bi der ghenade God coni]ic der Romeynen altoes denkende al den ghenen die desen brief s[ullen zien zine grascie ende] all goet. Totte kennesse uwer gemenlicheden willen wi dat comme dat [wi oerconden slechts] mitter hebbinge deser lettere also da wi van ghemenen rade onser [dienst liede, edel ende onedel] in Hollant ende bi rade anders goeder luden die den stat des landts begheren goed te[wesene, zulln] ordineren ende doen maken enen waterganc die men heet een watering of spoye [of] een gat hebbende inder voide xxiiii voete daer die mereste scepen met horen lasten [lichteleke moghen] doer liden tot Sparendam of daer bi soe waer dat wijs te worden ende willen dat alle die scepe die desen waterganc doer liden sculdich sijn weder te gelden den cost diemen leit an dus danighen wateringen [also] lange hout die cost volcomen si betailt, ende aldus elc scip datmen hiet elfscute of des ghelike gelden [sal] xii d., elc scip dat turf voert of riet viii d., een scip mit een hangende roeder vi d., mit een [hand] roeder iii d.,ende ander scepekijns ene d. om tlijden ende weder comen som wijl. Ende als die [cost ] des wateringe volcomelic is betailt, so sullen onse lude van Holland vrij ende quijt bliven van [dusdanich] gelt als te voren is gescit ende also lange alst ons ende onsen rade oerbair dunket wesen. In o[r]conde des dinges so hebben wi doen segelen des letteren. Ghevgeven te Leyden des viften ides van aprille op die elfte indictie in ons heren haer m cc ende liii.' Welke hantvesten voiringesien wi Willem, grave van Henegouwen ende van Hollant voirs. sullen houden ende doen houden vast ende stade inder manieren dat voirs. is sonder argelist, in oerconden desen brieve besegelt mit onse segel, ghegheven inden Hage des woensdachs voor paesdach in jaer ons here m ccc ende xvi.
English Summary
Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
Keywords
willem ii, count; willem iii, count; spaarndam; ship lock; sluices; ships; boats; tolls
Notes
Original of the 1316 confirmation, containing the 1253 document, in OAR7287. See OHZ, II, no. 964, pp. 643-48 for details and complete text of the original charter. Also published in van Mieris, I, p. 276. See van Amstel-Horßk and Lombarts, p. 1.
Keyword Threads			Seq / Count	First	Prev	Next
boats			1 / 13			1434
ship lock			1 / 4			1407
ships			1 / 15			1430
sluices			1 / 68			1284
spaarndam			1 / 55			1255
willem ii, count			1 / 3			1255
willem iii, count			1 / 2			1310

 

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Keywords "Z"...	Count	Record Summaries	Record Details First  -  Last
zanden, willem van	1		1417
zandhorst, hofstede van	1		1472
zandweg	1		1448
zanen, pieter van	7		1416	1438
zanen, vranck van	10		1415	1447
zanen, vrancken kinder van	1		1447
zanen, willem van	1		1430
zanen, willems weduwe van	2		1438	1447
zeedijk	1		1255
zeger staeszoon	1		1458
zegwaard	28		1330	1473
zevenhuizen	1		1472
zijburch dirck ysbrantszoons wijff	1		1431
zijdwinde	9		1255	1473
zijl	3		1446	1483
zijl, gerijt van	24		1415	1453
zijlbrug	7		1310	1452
zijlpoort	1		1410
zijlsluis	2		1444	1445
zijpe	1		1388
zijvert winzoon	1		1528
zoetermeer	16		1330	1457
zoeterwoude	37		1330	1527
zoeterwoude, kerk van	1		1449
zuidwijk	4		1330	1469
zuidwijk splinters ambacht	1		1525
zuutbroeck	1		1436
zuytzijde vanden rijn	1		1447
zwammerdam	7		1255	1448
zwammerdammerbrugge	1		1429
zwet	3		1434	1448
zwiet	2		1441	1448
zwieten, adriaen van	2		1481	1486
zwieten, aernt van	1		1470
zwieten, boudijn van	37		1430	1448
zwieten, dirc boudwijnszoon van	1		1448
zwieten, dirc van	12		1399	1482
zwieten, hughe hugenzoon van	1		1495
zwieten, hughe van	4		1469	1481
zwieten, jan van	1		1461
zwieten, symon vrederic van	7		1438	1465
zwieten, symon vrederick van	15		1446	1459

 

	Keyword
	zanden, willem van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.ca	List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.

 

	Keyword
	zandhorst, hofstede van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.06.30	Permission to Wassenaar to place a stone bridge in the Papenwech over the watering near Zandhorst Manor in the same manner as the bridge approved recently for Voorschoten (5 May 1472)

 

	Keyword
	zandweg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.

 

	Keyword
	zanen, pieter van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.01.08	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.21	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	zanen, vranck van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note: heemraden owe Robbrecht Claesz. of Haarlem 172 lb. 5 sc. for food and/or drink.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.01.08	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.09.26	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	zanen, vrancken kinder van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	zanen, willem van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.

 

	Keyword
	zanen, willems weduwe van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	zeedijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	zeger staeszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.

 

	Keyword
	zegwaard
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.02.29	Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Permission for Zegwaard and Zoetermeer to use a ditch as long as its kade is maintained at two spades high.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Hoogheemraden inform the village officials of Zegwaard that they have begun a process against the hoogheemraden of Schieland because the latter, despite the prohibitions of Rijnland as well as previous agreements, convened oversight sessions in Zegwaard (which spanned the two hoogheemraadschappen) and, as a result, the Rijnland residents of Zegwaard now refuse to pay Rijnland's assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Ordering the removal of woods along the Schinkelweg in Zegwaard to a distance of 2 rods from the road, because the shade from the woods leaves about 30 rods of the road in bad shape for parts of the year.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Permission for the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard to inspect the the section of the new canal built by Rotterdammers that runs through Zegwaard between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and Eggertsland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Decision regarding Hogeveen which had long refused to assume its responsibilities in Rijnland's common works and, as a consequence, had been threatened with having its drainage route dammed off. In February 1449 (OAR14, 38v-a) it had been delayed until Easter. Now, a group from Hogeveen has petitioned to have it further delayed while some sort of agreement is worked out. The heemraden, with this keur, agree that the damming will be put off until St. Peter's schouw (24 February 1450) if the Hogeveeners agree to pay morgengeld at the same rate as do their neighboring ambachten and also abide by peat digging regulations such as posting bond, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for Jongvrouw of Egmond to leave two parcels of good land in Zegwaard un-dug until a ground rent as bond (waarborg) can be established as the heemraden have requested from her. The matter was continued until 4 May 1451.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.12.17	Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.17	Permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to schouw a canal in Zegwaard (runs through middle of the land and empties into another watering near the Hoefweg), with their schouw beginning at the land of Egghert Vranckenszoon to that of Meeuw Pieterszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	A number of people oppose the permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for a canal in Zegwaard; the latter two respond that many others support them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Despite some opposition, Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon may continue schouw of a canal in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for residents of Zegwaard who live along the Dwars Nieuwevaart to construct bridges over the canal so they can do their sowing and planting for 14 days beginning with St. Servaas Day [13 May] and again for 14 days in August beginning on St. Lawrence Day [10 August].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for 5 or 6 residents of Zegwaard to decide the levy needed for payment to hoogheemraadschap of Schieland for turf digging.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.06.29	Permission for Zegwaard to use and maintain a piece of the Banwetering lying near the road in the Ruckenveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.01	Permission for Zegwaard to inspect and maintain roads and canals in that same manner as Hazerswoude does.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Order the heemraad's bode to go to Zegwaard to settle the matter of who is responsible for maintaining a certain canal that, according to some, is not being contributed to by the very ones who benefit the most from it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.05.06	Permission for Zegwaard to pump with windmills into the Schieland drainage level even though the windmills were located in Rijnland territory where windmill use was limited by Rijnland's regulations.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.10.09	A few months earlier, permission had been granted to residents of the Blocklanden in Benthuizen to dig a new canal on the end of the Blocklanden, beginning on the Gelderswoudse canal through Allart Meeszoons dam and continuing to the road near Benthuizerhorn -- 8 feet wide, with specifications for any bridges, etc. But, because some now opposed it, two heemraden of Rijnland, Jacob van Woude and Jan van Poelgeest, went to have a look. and ordered, in the name of entire college of hoogheemraden, that Allart Meeszoon's dam be raised and provisioned with two hoofden 7 roeden feet apart at the expense of the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard, and the latter shall schouw the canal and road ditch. The old canal belonging to the Blocklanden shall be left un-schouwed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.05.03	For any land changing hands in Zegwaard, the seller must notify the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard who will note the names of buyer and seller in a book which they must keep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.10.05	Prohibit running of wagons on the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) that extends from the Zijdwinde to the end of Zegwaard ambacht, to be regularly inspected by the schout and kroosheemraden of Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	zevenhuizen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Katwijk aan de Rijn to put a fence on the road in Zevenhuizen, in the bend near Luttickgeest. The fence must be made so it can be opened and closed but remain unlocked.

 

	Keyword
	zijburch dirck ysbrantszoons wijff
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.00.00	List of individuals banished in 1431

 

	Keyword
	zijdwinde
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1255.10.11	Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1286.02.18	Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
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1392.07.11	Limits on peat digging: dig no more than two days worth of peat on either the west or east side of the road between Riedwijker Nuwenwech and Kercklaen; no digging within 40 roeden of the Haarlemmermeer; no transport of peat outside the ambacht of Nieuwerkerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.03.04	Permission to residents of Zoetermeer to dig peat in the Groenen Erve section as long as they discharge all perform all prescribed maintenance work and pay all morgengeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	Permission for Ter Aar to give the vruchtgebruik of border embankment (zijdwinde), located in Langeraar, to the church at Ter Aar.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.09.28	Copy of a charter from Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland concerning the need to prosecute those digging peat too closely to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) . The heemraden should not allow digging within 4 roeden; an old charter set at least a buffer of 10 roeden which must be maintained and the landscheiding itself is to be 10 feet wide.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.10.05	Prohibit running of wagons on the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) that extends from the Zijdwinde to the end of Zegwaard ambacht, to be regularly inspected by the schout and kroosheemraden of Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	zijl
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Order that the sluice on the end of the Schinkeldijk remain closed so no water can enter Rijnland through it
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	In light of keur of 26 February 1460 prohibiting establishment of pumping mills without the consent of hoogheermaden, permission is now granted to pump with horse mills into the Oude Rijn, the Zijl, or into ones own canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.

 

	Keyword
	zijl, gerijt van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note: heemraden owe Robbrecht Claesz. of Haarlem 172 lb. 5 sc. for food and/or drink.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.09.05	Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.06.29	Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	The dijkgraaf had accused Willem Kuser of Boshuizen for fishing with eel traps in Rijnland. The latter claimed he did so just as the rentmeester of Noordholland did, referring to old customs. Further he claimed that he should be judged by an offical of the Court of Holland, not of the Hoogheemraadschap. After looking into the matter, the hoogheemraaden claimed jurisdiction and decided that the dijkgraaf should proceed according to old charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Decision to block the drainage from Hogeveen into the Oude Rijn because Hogeveen, even after 3 warnings, has refused accept its apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or to pay its share in the drainage costs of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday

 

	Keyword
	zijlbrug
Date	Summary	Rec details
1310.12.27	Copy (partially unreadable) of an original document issued by Count Willem III as arbiter in a dispute between Hendrik, burggraaf of Leiden and the heemraden of Rijnland concerding the fishery in the Wendeldijk; after payment of 400 lb. Hollands to the burggraaf, the right to fish there or anywhere else in Rijnland's territory now belongs exclusively to the heemraden, except for the fisheries of the Zijlbrug and Marebrug.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.16	Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Does, Zijl, and Klein bridges
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Zijlsluis and the Zijlbrug, both in bad condition, to be completed by the middle of May.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Specifications for reconstruction of the Kleine Zijlbrug
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Leiderdorp to construct a bridge over the Oude Rijn on condition that it be as high as the Zijlbrug and as wide as necessary.

 

	Keyword
	zijlpoort
Date	Summary	Rec details
1410.00.00	Finding in favor of Trude Baven and Jan van Leiden and associates who hold land outside the Zijlpoort at Leiden -- they may use the bridge and canal as in the past.

 

	Keyword
	zijlsluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Zijlsluis and the Zijlbrug, both in bad condition, to be completed by the middle of May.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Specifications for reconstruction of the Kleine Zijlbrug

 

	Keyword
	zijpe
Date	Summary	Rec details
1388.08.18	Copy of a charter issued by Duke Aelbrecht in which those within Rijnland who had previously paid morgengeld to build and/or maintain a section of a dike of the Zijpe, between Petten and Oghe, and of the Schagerdijk near Oghe, will now be free of this obligation.

 

	Keyword
	zijvert winzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	zoetermeer
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.02.29	Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Permission for Zoetermeer to combine two canals into one.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	For Zoeterwoude to recover unpaid morgengeld by seizing property of those in arrears.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.03.04	Permission to residents of Zoetermeer to dig peat in the Groenen Erve section as long as they discharge all perform all prescribed maintenance work and pay all morgengeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Permission to Zoetermeer to build and inspect a canal (maintain to 8 feet wide) above the Groenenwech stretching from the Clootstael westward to the wetering.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Permission for Zegwaard and Zoetermeer to use a ditch as long as its kade is maintained at two spades high.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Zoetermeer has set an example of how the apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) should be done.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Forbid the removal of the road near Floertgen along Zoetermeer lake.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Zoetermeer to carry out inspections in same manner as does Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.

 

	Keyword
	zoeterwoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1384.00.00	Apparently information concerning the handling (or mishandling) of certain properties in Katwijk, Leiden, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude held in trust for the benefit of the heirs of Aven Dirc Soytgens
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate how morgengeld is to be levied along the Scafgaende weren in Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Ordered changing the inspection days for Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten from May and St. Martin's Mass to mid-March and the Thursday after St. Bavo's day.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.08.12	Ordered the removal of the sluice behind Claes Stientgens in the Dwarswetering where it flows into the Nieuwewetering and the Rijn. And the kade encircling the polder known as the Barle shall be four feet wide and two feet high above the water.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	Permission for Zoeterwoude to build a road near the St. Nicholas House.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Testimony concerning land against which a lien had been placed because of prescribed maintenance work left undone.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Pieter van Busch is ordered to seize land in Zoeterwoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Order Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten to repair the dike breach at Stompwijk (presumably along the Zoetermeer).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Permission for Katwijk, Oegstgeest, Rietwijk, and Nieuwekerk to carry out inspections in same manner as was allowed for Zoeterwoude in 1435 [actually, 1421].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Zoetermeer to carry out inspections in same manner as does Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Permission for Zoeterwoude to inspect the Nieuwe Wetering and the Ommedijk from the Nieuwe Weterting to Meestgen Vranckenszoon in the same manner as they inspect other canals and roads.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	To schout of Zoeterwoude to henceforth inspect the Zwiet and the Zwette on the Friday instead of the Tuesday after St. John's day (June 24).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for the schout of Zoeterwoude to put his son in charge of keeping livestock off (schutten) the Rijndijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Decision regarding Hogeveen which had long refused to assume its responsibilities in Rijnland's common works and, as a consequence, had been threatened with having its drainage route dammed off. In February 1449 (OAR14, 38v-a) it had been delayed until Easter. Now, a group from Hogeveen has petitioned to have it further delayed while some sort of agreement is worked out. The heemraden, with this keur, agree that the damming will be put off until St. Peter's schouw (24 February 1450) if the Hogeveeners agree to pay morgengeld at the same rate as do their neighboring ambachten and also abide by peat digging regulations such as posting bond, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Vechter Claeszoon, official of Zoeterwoude, to breach a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) near the Zoeterwoude church on the condition that villagers are not harmed by this. Further, he may do so yearly, as necessary, presumably so that he can sail/float to his land.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Leiderdorp to construct a bridge over the Oude Rijn on condition that it be as high as the Zijlbrug and as wide as necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.02.26	Permission for schout of Zoeterwoude with his heemraden to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Kerkweg between the Weipoort and the church of Zoeterwoude, with the size of fines the same as on the other roads in Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.04.06	Permission for Zoeterwoude to construct a dam in the canal that the residents of Stompwijk had made from the Brede weer on the Ommedijk because the residents of Zoeterwoude have suffered from too much water coming through the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.02.28	Permission for a dam in a canal, dug by residents of Stompwijk through Zoeterwoude, to be removed because of the many damaged by it, with the understanding that those damaged by its removal have the right to seek compensation.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.07.06	Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.06.28	Permission for Zoeterwoude to breach the Ommedijk in the piece of land lying between Vranck Meeszoon and Jan Ailwijnszoon and to place a bridge in the gap on condition that they maintain it themselves.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.03.03	Permission for Jan Aelwiunszoon and Gerijt Vechterszoon to place a huel (small bridge or culvert) through the road that runs from the church to the Noordaa in Zoeterwoude. The two are responsible for its maintenance and no one must be damaged by it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Jan Clais Dircxzoon to breach the banweg in the West End of Zoeterwoude, near the Hofweg, put in two bridge heads, and install a bridge deck so no one is hindered or made to pay.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	zoeterwoude, kerk van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.

 

	Keyword
	zuidwijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Permission for Zuidwijk [Wassenaar] to narrow the distance between bridgeheads of a bridge over the Kersch (Kaswetering?) from 10 feet to 8 feet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.10.03	Permission for Dirck Dircxzoon van Beest to encircle his land along the Gouwekade in the ambacht of Zuidwijk known as Splintersambacht (Boskoop) with a dike. Thereafter he may put a culvert or small bridge (heulkijn) through the Gouwekade to let water in and out without damage to anyone else. All damage caused must be compensated via the hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.10.03	Permission for Jan die Backer to do as Dirck Dircxzoon van Beest has done -- to encircle his land along the Gouwekade in the ambacht of Zuidwijk known as Splintersambacht (Boskoop) with a dike. Thereafter he may put a culvert or small bridge (heulkijn) through the Gouwekade to let water in and out without damage to anyone else. All damage caused must be compensated via the hoogheemraden.

 

	Keyword
	zuidwijk splinters ambacht
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	zuutbroeck
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	zuytzijde vanden rijn
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Must plant alder [els] before digging peat.

 

	Keyword
	zwammerdam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1286.02.18	Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.01.04	Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Zwammerdam: the Land of Woerden for one half and Rijnland for the other, with Nieuwkoop doing the earthwork.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..

 

	Keyword
	zwammerdammerbrugge
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Zwammerdam: the Land of Woerden for one half and Rijnland for the other, with Nieuwkoop doing the earthwork.

 

	Keyword
	zwet
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Permission for Noordwijk to close the Zwet with a dam as they did in the past.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	To schout of Zoeterwoude to henceforth inspect the Zwiet and the Zwette on the Friday instead of the Tuesday after St. John's day (June 24).

 

	Keyword
	zwiet
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.27	Allows Dirc van Zwieten to fish on the Noord Aa, but not the Zwiet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	To schout of Zoeterwoude to henceforth inspect the Zwiet and the Zwette on the Friday instead of the Tuesday after St. John's day (June 24).

 

	Keyword
	zwieten, adriaen van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1481.06.26	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Zwieten, in place of Hughe van Zwieten, his nephew.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1486.09.06	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van der Does, in place of the late Adriaen van Zwieten.

 

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	zwieten, aernt van
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1470.02.27	Hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning unauthorized peat digging, too close to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other), by residents of Waddinxveen, with a brief review of what has happened so far, going back to when Jan van Rietvelt was dijkgraaf (1467-1469).

 

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	zwieten, boudijn van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.09.05	Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	The stoeling (assessments, assignment of maintenance responsibilities) for Spaarnwoude shall remain as they are as long as they remain outside the territory of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.05.01	Symon Heinricxzoon and associates can disassociate themselves from Valkenburg in matters of drainage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Schout of Koudekerk to announce and carry inspection of the sluices and culverts in the Hoge Rijndijk in the same manner as consented to for Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.06.29	Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.02.28	Must not harrass officials performing their duty
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	The dijkgraaf had accused Willem Kuser of Boshuizen for fishing with eel traps in Rijnland. The latter claimed he did so just as the rentmeester of Noordholland did, referring to old customs. Further he claimed that he should be judged by an offical of the Court of Holland, not of the Hoogheemraadschap. After looking into the matter, the hoogheemraaden claimed jurisdiction and decided that the dijkgraaf should proceed according to old charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement.

 

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	zwieten, dirc boudwijnszoon van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement.

 

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	zwieten, dirc van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.16	Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1403.10.08	Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1408.06.11	Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.27	Allows Dirc van Zwieten to fish on the Noord Aa, but not the Zwiet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.04.06	Permission for Zoeterwoude to construct a dam in the canal that the residents of Stompwijk had made from the Brede weer on the Ommedijk because the residents of Zoeterwoude have suffered from too much water coming through the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad to replace one who died is made by the surviving hoogheemraden. The person chosen will pay for 32 masses at the monastery in Warmond for the soul of the one who died, as well as other expenses involved in memorializing their late colleague.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.14	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.06.16	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gijsbrecht van Raphorst, in place of Dirc Boudijnszoon van Zwieten.

 

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	zwieten, hughe hugenzoon van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

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	zwieten, hughe van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
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1481.06.26	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Zwieten, in place of Hughe van Zwieten, his nephew.

 

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	zwieten, jan van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Jan van Zwieten to install a turnstile in the Reijnegommerwatering (Zoeterwoude) that can be closed to prevent boat passage through the canal on the condition that he digs a wider and deeper passage next to his manor house, Hofstede Reijnegom.

 

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	zwieten, symon vrederic van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Hoogheemraden agree to the transfer of the sea dike near Amsterdam, known as the Kostverloren, from the heirs of Reijnier Reijnierszoon to Pieter Willemszoon, resident of Sloterdijk. Pieter may not sell nothing up to the last sluice in Kostverloren without permission of the Hoogheemraden. The old act, from which it appeared that the dike belonged to Aernt Vechterszoon, Vechter Aerntszoon, Reyner Reynerszoon and widow Lijsbeth, is hereby cancelled.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.10.09	Simon Vrederick van Zwieten, droosaart of the land of Arkel and bailiuw of the land of Voorne, a member of the hoogheemraadschap since 1446, resigns, citing duties he owes the lord of Charlerois (i.e., Charles the Bold or Karel de Stoute).

 

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	zwieten, symon vrederick van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.08.24	Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	The dijkgraaf had accused Willem Kuser of Boshuizen for fishing with eel traps in Rijnland. The latter claimed he did so just as the rentmeester of Noordholland did, referring to old customs. Further he claimed that he should be judged by an offical of the Court of Holland, not of the Hoogheemraadschap. After looking into the matter, the hoogheemraaden claimed jurisdiction and decided that the dijkgraaf should proceed according to old charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.07.04	Permission for Dirck Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to construct a huel (bridge or culvert) through the road/dike in front of his door.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Decision to block the drainage from Hogeveen into the Oude Rijn because Hogeveen, even after 3 warnings, has refused accept its apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or to pay its share in the drainage costs of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad to replace one who died is made by the surviving hoogheemraden. The person chosen will pay for 32 masses at the monastery in Warmond for the soul of the one who died, as well as other expenses involved in memorializing their late colleague.

 

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ysbout	1		1434
ysbrant claeszoon	1		1528
ysbrant de cuyper	1		1448
ysbrant janszoon	1		1460
ysbrant mertijn	1		1426
ysbrant symonszoon	1		1458

 

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	ysbout
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.

 

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	ysbrant claeszoon
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1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

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	ysbrant de cuyper
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.07.04	Permission for Ysebrant de Cuyper and associates to put a footbridge over the Vliet bij Dirck Yscax's place

 

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	ysbrant janszoon
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1460.05.06	Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.

 

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	ysbrant mertijn
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1426.00.00	Testimony taken in inquest done at Lisse into the matter of water being allowed to drain into Rijnland because several had dug through a dune at the request of the houtvesters -- possibly to relieve flooding.

 

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	ysbrant symonszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.

 

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waddinxveen	27		1356	1533
waddinxveense kade	1		1356
waddinxveensegreppel	1		1451
waddinxveensekade	1		1358
waddinxveensevaart	1		1564
waddinxveensewetering	1		1533
waelkijns herberg	1		1419
wagenweg	1		1443
wagonpad	2		1421	1421
wagons	4		1421	1473
wairsman van gemenen buren	1		1433
walen dichten	21		1405	1478
walich janszoon	1		1434
wangen	1		1450
warfare	2		1422	1450
warmond	8		1443	1495
warmond, dirc van	1		1426
warmond, hofstede van	1		1483
warmond, susteren van	1		1483
wassenaar	8		1330	1472
wassenaarsgeest	2		1447	1452
wassenaer, dirc van	1		1385
wassenaer, phillips van	1		1474
water pollution	4		1435	1453
waterkering	5		1284	1469
waterschap	9		1399	1523
weerstal	1		1438
weesp	1		1477
weiden	1		1439
weijpoort	1		1454
wendeldijk	1		1310
wernbout janszoon	1		1446
westvaerte	1		1469
wijken	1		1469
wijngaerden, goidschalck oem van	1		1495
wijngarden, jan van	1		1527
wijnkoop	3		1443	1457
wild peatland	1		1399
wilderness	8		1417	1452
wildmills	1		1447
wilk	2		1399	1399
willem baertzoon	1		1430
willem bartoen	1		1446
willem benthoern	1		1446
willem bort	2		1437	1437
willem claeszoon	1		1449
willem dobbezoon	1		1419
willem gerijt diemanszoon	1		1461
willem hermanszoon	1		1446
willem heynricxzoon	1		1483
willem ii, count	3		1253	1255
willem iii, count	2		1253	1310
willem jacobs	1		1528
willem jacobszoon	1		1528
willem janszoon	2		1430	1434
willem mathijszoon	1		1440
willem onderwater	1		1468
willem pouwelszoon	1		1401
willem reynerszoon	1		1469
willem reynoutszoon	1		1457
willem soykegens	1		1371
willem spapenzoon	1		1417
willem symonszoon	1		1473
willem v, count	3		1356	1400
willem vi, count	2		1405	1415
willem vossenswijf	1		1371
wilsveen	1		1451
windmills	7		1447	1528
witnesses	3		1434	1457
witte jacob buzenzoon	1		1415
woensdagsche watering	1		1449
woerden	9		1363	1445
woerdersluis	2		1421	1425
wood	2		1460	1472
woods	1		1441
woods, clearing of	1		1449
workers	1		1457
woubrugge	1		1446
woude, jacob van der	1		1462
woude, hofstede van	1		1440
woude, jacob van	1		1474
woude, jacob van der	8		1425	1495
woude, jacob van der woude	1		1460
woude, jan van der	9		1392	1416
wout wech	1		1473
woutambacht	1		1424
wouter geyen	1		1417
wouter jacopszoon	1		1448
wouter janszoon	1		1483

 

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	waddinxveen
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1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
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1358.10.19	After negotiations, Jan of Blois, lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda restores the right of Alphen, Boskoop, Hazwerswoude, and Waddinxveen to have and maintain a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel. Apparently, he had ordered it closed at some time earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.08.30	Establishes a new waterschap, represented by a drainage canal with construction and maintenance duties assigned to it, in the wild peatland lying between Hazerswoude and Benthorn which will drain via the Benthuizerwetering through the ambacht of Hazerswoude into the Oude Rijn; the new water board shall have the right to issue keuren, carry out inspections, apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), and levy fines as appropriate to the common good.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.ca	Authorization: to construct and/or maintain the Slingerkade running between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1401.05.19	Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Prohibition: against vletten (transporting dirt for dike repairs in a special barge, a vlet) with horses through the canals of Coenecoop (Zuid-Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.03.19	Dispute settlement between Rijnland and Schieland concerning penninggeld collected in Alphen, Hasertswoude, Waddinxveen, and Boskoop concerning a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that drained via a sluice into the IJssel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Permission to take earth for making or repairing the Heerweg in Waddinxveen that is closest to the site and will cause the least damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Florijs van Boschuijsen declares that he has permission from the dijkgraaf and heemraden to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe. Florijs agrees to maintain it himself according to the requirements specified by the schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.10.03	A clarification that the wetering that Florijs van Boschuijsen had been authorized to restore earlier in the year is to be inspected by the schout and heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Inspection of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) at Waddinxveen with agreement that it meets standards.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Permission for Pieter Willem Hasen to cut a passage through a road in Waddinxveen so that he can transport his peat by water, on condition that he install a bridge over the gap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Settlement of dispute between Gerijt van Heemstede, lord of Benthuizen, and Willem Bort concerning a waterway in Hogeveen that had been authorized by a charter from Duke Albrecht. Those who do not contribute their share of maintenance responsibilities shall have their drainage blocked off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.15	Permission for Hazerswoude to put fences on the Slingerkade, which ran between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Authorization for Dirc Hoochstraet to maintain the Lage brug (Low Bridge) in Waddinxveen with dirt and wood provided at his own expense at sufficient height for peat and other materials to be transported under it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	This document comes from the Hoogheemraadschap van Schieland -- gives the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) permission to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.02.23	Permission for the participants in the Watergang (canal) der Vier Ambachten (Alphen, Waddinxveen, Hazerswoude, and Boskoop) to construct windmills to pump water from their lands into the canal, which drained into the IJssel River.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1470.02.27	Hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning unauthorized peat digging, too close to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other), by residents of Waddinxveen, with a brief review of what has happened so far, going back to when Jan van Rietvelt was dijkgraaf (1467-1469).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.03.17	Dirc van Bosche, apparently the heemraad's assistant, acknowledged that he holds a hundred Rijnsche gulden that his late father, Pieter, also the bode, had collected on behalf of Rijnland. Apparently, he will pay back at the rate of 5 gulden per year. A note at the end says this document was replaced by another because Rijnland sold the obligation (mortgage) to Meeus Pieter Ruyscher
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Permission for Heinric van Naeldwijc to replace the horse mills with windmills to pump water from his lordship in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1523.11.10	Settlement of dispute between residents of Alphen west of the Gouwe and village officials of the south end of Waddinxveen and Coenencoop concerning the Binnenkade and the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) of the Goudkade to the Nesse, alongside the culvert.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.

 

	Keyword
	waddinxveense kade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.

 

	Keyword
	waddinxveensegreppel
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.

 

	Keyword
	waddinxveensekade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1358.10.19	After negotiations, Jan of Blois, lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda restores the right of Alphen, Boskoop, Hazwerswoude, and Waddinxveen to have and maintain a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel. Apparently, he had ordered it closed at some time earlier.

 

	Keyword
	waddinxveensevaart
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	waddinxveensewetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.

 

	Keyword
	waelkijns herberg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.

 

	Keyword
	wagenweg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.

 

	Keyword
	wagonpad
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Requirement that anyone having an overvaart or wagon path over the hoge rijndijk should make it twice as high as the dike itself.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	No one can have wagen path over another's dike without permission; with permission, nevertheless responsible for all damage

 

	Keyword
	wagons
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.10.06	Order the buren of Spaarndam to reconstruct the wangen (wings) of the Grote sluis on behalf of the Capel van Spaarndam so that people can ride along it, along with a turnstile that it can be closed if necessary. The capelmeesters get to collect a quarter of a stuiver for every passing car or wagon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.10.05	Prohibit running of wagons on the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) that extends from the Zijdwinde to the end of Zegwaard ambacht, to be regularly inspected by the schout and kroosheemraden of Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	wairsman van gemenen buren
Date	Summary	Rec details
1433.00.00	An investigation into a dispute between Rijnland and the city of Amsterdam whose merchants had breached the Overtoom (an overtocht or inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) in the Kostverloren wetering on the southwestern side of the city to facilitate the transport of some bags of wool. Both sides claimed to own the dike in question and each appealed to old charters granting them jurisdiction. In the end, the arbitrators sided with Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	walen dichten
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.09.29	Copy (badly damaged) of a charter issued by Margaret of Cleves [Margaretha van Kleef] in which the ambachten of Sloten, Polanen and Osdorp, along with all ambachten between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam responsible for maintenance of the Spaarndammerdijk, must obey the keur calling for the common repair of dike breaks and prevent the formation of walen (deep washouts).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.10.05	Copy of an original charter issued by Duke Willem VI authorizing the bailiff (dijkgraaf) and heemraden of Rijnland to order all responsible for dike maintenance between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam to repair dike breaks to prevent the formation of walen along the Spaarndammerdijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.11.11	Requirement of cooperation: everyone along the Hoge Zeedijk from Amsterdam to Spaarndam must help each other when any of them suffer a dike break and do so according to the requirements spelled out in specific orders.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.00.00	Settled dispute and made a pronouncement concerning it: the dispute was between the village of Spaarnwoude and the village of Hofambacht concening the sleeper (i.e., backup) dike and new dike at Spaarnwoude which is apportioned to Hofambacht -- 140 roeden of the dike lies in Hofambacht and the latter must maintain it in perpetuity according to the keuren that are made concerning it. Further, the heemraden pronounce that the land inside the inlaag should be treated the same as that outside it. And the land within the dike that belongs to Spaarnwoude shall be free of obligation to the dike in question. Should any unforseen things occur, then Spaarnwoude will participate as do the rest of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.04.13	Ordered the village of Aalsmeer to send 100 men with the necessary boats and equipment (including hosen, graven, and forken) to close the dike breach at Spaarnwoude and bring the dike up to such strength as to prevent future flooding. They are ordered to appear on the next Sunday evening (19 April) or Monday morning (April 20) before sunrise at the breach with all their tools and equipment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.06.24	Instructions concerning payments for dirt, where dirt is to be taken, and other matters related to repairing breaches in dikes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.24	Because there were more breaches in the dikes near the Carthusian monastery and on the east side of the city, the hoogheemraden believed it necessary for those having authority for hydraulic mattes there to join Rijnland in common cause to close the breaches. Therefore they requested that the dijkgraaf of Rijnland, Aelbrecht van Raephorst, with the aldermen (schepenen) of Diemen and the schout and of Amstelveen (collectively the predecessors to Amstelland water board) to attend a hearing planned for 15 January 1453 at Haarlem.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	In the presence of the representatives of the villages between Amsterdam and Spaarndam, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dikes along the Spaarndammerdijk, with the costs to be spread over the affected villages in proportion to their areas.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Residents of all villages along the Spaarndammerdijk, between Spaarndam and Amsterdam, must appear at the dike on 8 February to have their prescribed maintenance work in closing the dike breaks assigned to them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission to the Carthusians of Amsterdam to close a breach in the dike near their monastery with dirt from their own lands without help from others. By agreement of the ambachten, the Carthusians are exempt this time from having to contribute to dike work elsewhere. No legal precedent (recht) will be established in this decision.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission for Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, because of their remote location and difficulty for others to get there, to close the waal at Houtrijk by themselves, without the others usually responsible for maintenance there. Sloten and Osdorp allowed the same for walen in their territories. They must not stop work until it is competed. Because it will be difficult for the poor to meet their obligations, the hoogheemraden have generously give 70 gulden (of 10 plaken-worth), half to go to Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, and half to Sloten and Osdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All residents between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are ordered to appear at their sections of the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) on 8 January to receive their assignments in dike repair and remain there until dismissed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	To close the walen, one man will appear for every 20 made of land, and every two men with a schuit, and each shall be properly equipped with spades, barrows, etc. as is necessary. The date to appear is 8 January.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Because the hoogheemraden realize that the poor will have greatest difficulty in performing the repair work needed to close all walen, the former will help pay for excessive costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All expenses that hoogheemraden incur while closing the walen in the Zeedijk will be distributed across the entire territory of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.

 

	Keyword
	walich janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	Permission for Walich Janszoon to carry off and use the turf that Gerijt Boenenzoon bought from him in Vriesekoop until the latter fulfills his morgengeld and prescribed maintenance work responsibilities.

 

	Keyword
	wangen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.10.06	Order the buren of Spaarndam to reconstruct the wangen (wings) of the Grote sluis on behalf of the Capel van Spaarndam so that people can ride along it, along with a turnstile that it can be closed if necessary. The capelmeesters get to collect a quarter of a stuiver for every passing car or wagon.

 

	Keyword
	warfare
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Dijkgraaf and heemraden have inspected the damage to and suffering of the good people of Rijnland with respect to their hydraulic works because of warfare (especially south of the Rijn and along the Goude) and they now appoint special lower heemraden in the named ambachten to oversee the reconstruction and to issue keuren, orders, and commands to that effect as necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.

 

	Keyword
	warmond
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.05.08	Order an inspection of the Mare between the edge of Leiden and Warmond on the first Wednesday after Saint Martin's translatio (8 July) and the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Limits on how close to someone else's land individuals may dig for clay, dirt, etc., without permission of the owner of the edge or bank [sleet] of the water between Vennip and Warmond. Those found guilty must pay fines and repair damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

	Keyword
	warmond, dirc van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.00.00	Testimony taken in inquest done at Lisse into the matter of water being allowed to drain into Rijnland because several had dug through a dune at the request of the houtvesters -- possibly to relieve flooding.

 

	Keyword
	warmond, hofstede van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

	Keyword
	warmond, susteren van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

	Keyword
	wassenaar
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the schout of Voorschoten to carry out the main and followup inspections of the Lage Rijndijk within Valkenburg and Wassenaar on 18 October and 17 March, and all other inspections according to customary practice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Permission for village of Wassenaar to allow Mees Willem Hendricxzoon to build a stone bridge in the Rugelaan and keep it (collect tolls and maintain it) for 36 years, after which it and the road will be turned over to the ambacht in good condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Order the construction of a kade in Wassenaar and Voorschoten from Wassenaarsgeest to the Hoge Rijndijk along the north side of the Dodijnslaan.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	Permission for schout and buren of Wassenaar to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) on a canal beginning at the Papewech and extended eastwards about 100 roeden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.03.12	Permission for Jan Pieterszoon, village official of Wassenaar, and his associates to construct a 4-foot wide stone culvert or bridge in the road in Druijtswael.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.06.30	Permission to Wassenaar to place a stone bridge in the Papenwech over the watering near Zandhorst Manor in the same manner as the bridge approved recently for Voorschoten (5 May 1472)

 

	Keyword
	wassenaarsgeest
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Order the construction of a kade in Wassenaar and Voorschoten from Wassenaarsgeest to the Hoge Rijndijk along the north side of the Dodijnslaan.

 

	Keyword
	wassenaer, dirc van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1385.04.01	A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.

 

	Keyword
	wassenaer, phillips van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.14	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.

 

	Keyword
	water pollution
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	An addendum to another keur stipulating how and where flax and hemp may be rotted along the Oude Rijn trajectory
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Replaces older keuren of 1435 (OAR11, 35v-d and 35v-e) by tightening restrictions on rotting flax or hemp in the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Prohibit water pollution in the form of filth and trash to enter the Oude Rijn

 

	Keyword
	waterkering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1284.11.13	Grant Alphen, Randenburg, Snijdelwijk; Groesnwaard, Splinters Ambacht uten Waard the right to remove the sluice gate in the Gouwesluis at the Oude Rijn in Alphen as well as other rights associated with the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.07.01	Verdict in a long-running dispute between Willem van Oestgeest and his companions and the officials of Oegstgeest concerning morgengeld, penninggeld, and more; the hoogheemraden side with the officials of Oegstgeest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.09.28	Copy of a charter from Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland concerning the need to prosecute those digging peat too closely to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) . The heemraden should not allow digging within 4 roeden; an old charter set at least a buffer of 10 roeden which must be maintained and the landscheiding itself is to be 10 feet wide.

 

	Keyword
	waterschap
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.08.30	Establishes a new waterschap, represented by a drainage canal with construction and maintenance duties assigned to it, in the wild peatland lying between Hazerswoude and Benthorn which will drain via the Benthuizerwetering through the ambacht of Hazerswoude into the Oude Rijn; the new water board shall have the right to issue keuren, carry out inspections, apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), and levy fines as appropriate to the common good.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Authorization for a new canal in Vriesekoop, 12 feet wide, beginning at the Billerdammer weg and running to Heynric Jacopszoons wetering in Rijnsaterswoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Order Spaarnwoude to carry out its responsibilities with respect to the Nieuwersluis or face a fine of 10 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Settlement of dispute between Gerijt van Heemstede, lord of Benthuizen, and Willem Bort concerning a waterway in Hogeveen that had been authorized by a charter from Duke Albrecht. Those who do not contribute their share of maintenance responsibilities shall have their drainage blocked off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.16	Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1523.11.10	Settlement of dispute between residents of Alphen west of the Gouwe and village officials of the south end of Waddinxveen and Coenencoop concerning the Binnenkade and the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) of the Goudkade to the Nesse, alongside the culvert.

 

	Keyword
	weerstal
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.02.25	Order everyone to remove all fishing apparatus and other equipment from the Oude Rijn within 14 days.

 

	Keyword
	weesp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.

 

	Keyword
	weiden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.07.06	Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk

 

	Keyword
	weijpoort
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.02.26	Permission for schout of Zoeterwoude with his heemraden to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Kerkweg between the Weipoort and the church of Zoeterwoude, with the size of fines the same as on the other roads in Zoeterwoude.

 

	Keyword
	wendeldijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1310.12.27	Copy (partially unreadable) of an original document issued by Count Willem III as arbiter in a dispute between Hendrik, burggraaf of Leiden and the heemraden of Rijnland concerding the fishery in the Wendeldijk; after payment of 400 lb. Hollands to the burggraaf, the right to fish there or anywhere else in Rijnland's territory now belongs exclusively to the heemraden, except for the fisheries of the Zijlbrug and Marebrug.

 

	Keyword
	wernbout janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.

 

	Keyword
	westvaerte
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Settlement of dispute between residents of Hogeveen concerning maintenance of the Kijfvairte. The canal must be put in order by all residing between the Westvaart and the geordineerde Oostvaart (Hazerswoude) beginning at the northern streckvaart to the fens (venen) of Florijs van Boschuijsen. All associated costs should be spread over the community members, or at least the majority of them.

 

	Keyword
	wijken
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Because an earlier keur ordering use of a sail or cloth suspended between boats transferring sand or shells was largely ignored, resulting in the Spaarne being filled up with sand and shells, heemraden have now decided to prevent all transfer of such cargoes between ships in the Spaarne because of how seriously it affects all or Rijnland. Such transfers must be done only in bays off the side of the Spaarne at leat 2 rods away from the main channel.

 

	Keyword
	wijngaerden, goidschalck oem van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

	Keyword
	wijngarden, jan van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	wijnkoop
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.

 

	Keyword
	wild peatland
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.08.30	Establishes a new waterschap, represented by a drainage canal with construction and maintenance duties assigned to it, in the wild peatland lying between Hazerswoude and Benthorn which will drain via the Benthuizerwetering through the ambacht of Hazerswoude into the Oude Rijn; the new water board shall have the right to issue keuren, carry out inspections, apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), and levy fines as appropriate to the common good.

 

	Keyword
	wilderness
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.08.12	Authorization for a culvert with a sluis or gate (scotdoer) to go under the Delft (a canal) so that the peatland between Hillegommerbeek and the Delft can drain into the low peatland. The water above, in the Delft, shall run unhindered toward the Haarlemmermeer, while the culvert underneath shall remain open between sinte Bertijns misse and sinte Pieters misse afterwhich it shall be closed. Similarly each year on 8 May the culvert gate will stand open as well as other times of the year, as long as no one else is damaged by it. And the scout and heemraden of Lisse shall inspect the new dike on the north side of the Delft and the waterschap of the Delft with the new culvert, with those in the peatland benefitting from the culvert bearing the costs of maintenance. Further, the Hillegommerweg which runs along the beek up to the woods (in the dunes?) shall remain closed (i.e., the embankment on which the path lies shall not be breached) so that external water will not flow onto the peatland in question. And the three bridges over the Lisserbeek which belong to Noorwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout shall be removed and not rebuilt as long as that is best for the larger generality. For all of this, the peatlands shall pay morgengeld just like all the other lands of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Florijs van Boschuijsen declares that he has permission from the dijkgraaf and heemraden to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe. Florijs agrees to maintain it himself according to the requirements specified by the schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.10.03	A clarification that the wetering that Florijs van Boschuijsen had been authorized to restore earlier in the year is to be inspected by the schout and heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Order residents of the 'hogen wilden veen' and Benthoorn (in Benthuizen) to accept their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or face the damming off of their drainage outlet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulates how those within Lisse should pay morgen morgensgelijk just as if they all had emerged from wilderness.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	A number of people oppose the permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for a canal in Zegwaard; the latter two respond that many others support them.

 

	Keyword
	wildmills
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.

 

	Keyword
	wilk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal.

 

	Keyword
	willem baertzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.07	Authorization for Spaarnwoude to build a sluis with associated canal through the dike (Hoge Zeedijk or Spaarndammerdijk) at Hofambacht with various stipulations, including a ban on fishing and a requirement that it be used only to discharge water and not to allow it in from outside.

 

	Keyword
	willem bartoen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.

 

	Keyword
	willem benthoern
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.

 

	Keyword
	willem bort
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Settlement of dispute between Gerijt van Heemstede, lord of Benthuizen, and Willem Bort concerning a waterway in Hogeveen that had been authorized by a charter from Duke Albrecht. Those who do not contribute their share of maintenance responsibilities shall have their drainage blocked off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.24	Representatives of city of Leiden, Gerijt van Oestgeest, Jan Heerman, and Willem Bort, promise to appear on Wednesday eight days hence to account for the city's actions regarding alder [els] planting, i.e., poeten or poten, a requirement before beginning to dig peat.

 

	Keyword
	willem claeszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	The hoogheemraden declare that, before 22 February 1450, Clais Dircxzoon must pay Claes Willemszoon for injuries done to the latter's son, Willem Claeszoon. The son, a skipper's helper, was injured when Clais Dircxzoon let the sluice door of the Grote sluis at Spaarndam fall while repairing the sluice.

 

	Keyword
	willem dobbezoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.

 

	Keyword
	willem gerijt diemanszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.06.30	Permission for Willem Gerijt Diemanszoon to breach the road in Benthuizen and lay a footbridge over it.

 

	Keyword
	willem hermanszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play

 

	Keyword
	willem heynricxzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.03.04	Permission for Willem Hendricxzoon, Pieter Dircxzoon, Wouter Janszoon, and Claes Janszoon to pump water with a new mill at Hazerswoude as long as no one is harmed by it.

 

	Keyword
	willem ii, count
Date	Summary	Rec details
1253.04.09	Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1255.10.11	Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	willem iii, count
Date	Summary	Rec details
1253.04.09	Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1310.12.27	Copy (partially unreadable) of an original document issued by Count Willem III as arbiter in a dispute between Hendrik, burggraaf of Leiden and the heemraden of Rijnland concerding the fishery in the Wendeldijk; after payment of 400 lb. Hollands to the burggraaf, the right to fish there or anywhere else in Rijnland's territory now belongs exclusively to the heemraden, except for the fisheries of the Zijlbrug and Marebrug.

 

	Keyword
	willem jacobs
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	willem jacobszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	willem janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.07	Authorization for Spaarnwoude to build a sluis with associated canal through the dike (Hoge Zeedijk or Spaarndammerdijk) at Hofambacht with various stipulations, including a ban on fishing and a requirement that it be used only to discharge water and not to allow it in from outside.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.

 

	Keyword
	willem mathijszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Permission for Dirc Smitszoon, Wouter van Ansc, Willem Matijszoon and others from Jacobswoude to construct a bay or inlet with a bridge through the road near Woude Manor (hofstede) with a place to launch their boats.

 

	Keyword
	willem onderwater
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.02.23	Permission for Willem Onderwater and his children and Jacob Vranckezoon and his associates to put a sluice (scotduer) in the ommedijk and maintain it without cost to their neighbors.

 

	Keyword
	willem pouwelszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1401.05.19	Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.

 

	Keyword
	willem reynerszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.

 

	Keyword
	willem reynoutszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.

 

	Keyword
	willem soykegens
Date	Summary	Rec details
1371.11.13	A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.

 

	Keyword
	willem spapenzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.ca	List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.

 

	Keyword
	willem symonszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.07.20	Permission for Willem Sijmonszoon and sons to put a bridge in the Woutweg (Esselijkerwoude) so they can sail through, on condition that they maintain it themselves.

 

	Keyword
	willem v, count
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1358.10.19	After negotiations, Jan of Blois, lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda restores the right of Alphen, Boskoop, Hazwerswoude, and Waddinxveen to have and maintain a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel. Apparently, he had ordered it closed at some time earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.

 

	Keyword
	willem vi, count
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.10.05	Copy of an original charter issued by Duke Willem VI authorizing the bailiff (dijkgraaf) and heemraden of Rijnland to order all responsible for dike maintenance between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam to repair dike breaks to prevent the formation of walen along the Spaarndammerdijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.03.19	Dispute settlement between Rijnland and Schieland concerning penninggeld collected in Alphen, Hasertswoude, Waddinxveen, and Boskoop concerning a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that drained via a sluice into the IJssel.

 

	Keyword
	willem vossenswijf
Date	Summary	Rec details
1371.11.13	A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.

 

	Keyword
	wilsveen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.02	Permission for Wilsveen to put a culvert under the road.

 

	Keyword
	windmills
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Sassenheim to assign maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) for the the dike that extends from the east side of the windmill toward the lakes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Because of the damage that they can do to low-lying lands, windmills may be established only with the consent of the hoogheemraden, and all windmills already in place must be stopped until approved.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.05.06	Permission for Zegwaard to pump with windmills into the Schieland drainage level even though the windmills were located in Rijnland territory where windmill use was limited by Rijnland's regulations.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.02.23	Permission for the participants in the Watergang (canal) der Vier Ambachten (Alphen, Waddinxveen, Hazerswoude, and Boskoop) to construct windmills to pump water from their lands into the canal, which drained into the IJssel River.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	In light of keur of 26 February 1460 prohibiting establishment of pumping mills without the consent of hoogheermaden, permission is now granted to pump with horse mills into the Oude Rijn, the Zijl, or into ones own canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.10	Consent for residents of Alphen inside the new dike (polder between the Oostkade and the Gouwekade) to put a water mill on their land with which to pump into the Oude Rijn on condition that the new dike remain closed and that no water from the Watergang der Vier Ambachten comes through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	witnesses
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.06.28	This is the verdict in a dispute between Aven Jan Bonens widow and Florijs Aelbertszoon concerning a verhoefslag (apportionment of maintenance responsibilities) for the dike at Houtrijk.

 

	Keyword
	witte jacob buzenzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink

 

	Keyword
	woensdagsche watering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Permission for Huge van Berge to put a huel through the Boevesloot.

 

	Keyword
	woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	A legal announcement or declaration: whenever the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland see the need for the Woerdersluis to be repaired or reconstructed, either now or in the future, they will issue a summons to representatives from Woerden 8 days in advance to be present for the besteding (contracting out according to specifications) to forestall additional damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Zwammerdam: the Land of Woerden for one half and Rijnland for the other, with Nieuwkoop doing the earthwork.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Molenaarsbrug or Heimansbrug in Alphen-Oudshoorn, split evenly between the Land of Woerden and Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Heimansbrug.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute settlement concerning Woerden.

 

	Keyword
	woerdersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	A legal announcement or declaration: whenever the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland see the need for the Woerdersluis to be repaired or reconstructed, either now or in the future, they will issue a summons to representatives from Woerden 8 days in advance to be present for the besteding (contracting out according to specifications) to forestall additional damage.

 

	Keyword
	wood
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Authorization for Dirc Hoochstraet to maintain the Lage brug (Low Bridge) in Waddinxveen with dirt and wood provided at his own expense at sufficient height for peat and other materials to be transported under it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Voorschoten to put two stone bridges in the Papenwech over the canals at such height and width that an aelman (small, flat-bottomed boat) loaded with peat or wood can sail through them.

 

	Keyword
	woods
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.

 

	Keyword
	woods, clearing of
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Ordering the removal of woods along the Schinkelweg in Zegwaard to a distance of 2 rods from the road, because the shade from the woods leaves about 30 rods of the road in bad shape for parts of the year.

 

	Keyword
	workers
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.

 

	Keyword
	woubrugge
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Woubrugge to carry out inspecticions as simply and cheaply as possible

 

	Keyword
	woude, jacob van der
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.10.09	A few months earlier, permission had been granted to residents of the Blocklanden in Benthuizen to dig a new canal on the end of the Blocklanden, beginning on the Gelderswoudse canal through Allart Meeszoons dam and continuing to the road near Benthuizerhorn -- 8 feet wide, with specifications for any bridges, etc. But, because some now opposed it, two heemraden of Rijnland, Jacob van Woude and Jan van Poelgeest, went to have a look. and ordered, in the name of entire college of hoogheemraden, that Allart Meeszoon's dam be raised and provisioned with two hoofden 7 roeden feet apart at the expense of the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard, and the latter shall schouw the canal and road ditch. The old canal belonging to the Blocklanden shall be left un-schouwed.

 

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	woude, hofstede van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Permission for Dirc Smitszoon, Wouter van Ansc, Willem Matijszoon and others from Jacobswoude to construct a bay or inlet with a bridge through the road near Woude Manor (hofstede) with a place to launch their boats.

 

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	woude, jacob van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.14	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.

 

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	woude, jacob van der
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	A legal announcement or declaration: whenever the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland see the need for the Woerdersluis to be repaired or reconstructed, either now or in the future, they will issue a summons to representatives from Woerden 8 days in advance to be present for the besteding (contracting out according to specifications) to forestall additional damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jacob van der Woude, to replace the late Gerijt van Poelgeest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1491.03.01	Settlement of a dispute over payment of aardgeld, place unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

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	woude, jacob van der woude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).

 

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	woude, jan van der
Date	Summary	Rec details
1392.07.11	Limits on peat digging: dig no more than two days worth of peat on either the west or east side of the road between Riedwijker Nuwenwech and Kercklaen; no digging within 40 roeden of the Haarlemmermeer; no transport of peat outside the ambacht of Nieuwerkerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.16	Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1403.10.08	Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.11.11	Requirement of cooperation: everyone along the Hoge Zeedijk from Amsterdam to Spaarndam must help each other when any of them suffer a dike break and do so according to the requirements spelled out in specific orders.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.03.07	Prohibition against constructing any bridges in any of the canals of Rijnland without permission of the dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland
Date	Summary	Rec details
1408.06.11	Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note: heemraden owe Robbrecht Claesz. of Haarlem 172 lb. 5 sc. for food and/or drink.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

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	wout wech
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.07.20	Permission for Willem Sijmonszoon and sons to put a bridge in the Woutweg (Esselijkerwoude) so they can sail through, on condition that they maintain it themselves.

 

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	woutambacht
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.05.01	Establishes that the width of the Rijpwetering in the Woutambacht, stretching to Heer Jacobswoude, should be just as wide as the part that extends into the ambacht of Alkemade.

 

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	wouter geyen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.ca	List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.

 

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	wouter jacopszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Permission for Zuidwijk [Wassenaar] to narrow the distance between bridgeheads of a bridge over the Kersch (Kaswetering?) from 10 feet to 8 feet.

 

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	wouter janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.03.04	Permission for Willem Hendricxzoon, Pieter Dircxzoon, Wouter Janszoon, and Claes Janszoon to pump water with a new mill at Hazerswoude as long as no one is harmed by it.

 

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William H. TeBrake Maine, USA, June 2006	Rijnland OAR11, OAR12, OAR13	www.oudleiden.nl