Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland
OAR 11, 12, 13 : 1253 - 1564
previous Keyword summaries View: Keywords
Starting with H ...
next Keyword summaries

 

 

haagse bos 1 Keyword Summaries 1394  
haarlem 32 Keyword Summaries 1399 1525
haarlemmerhout 1 Keyword Summaries 1417  
haarlemmermeer 10 Keyword Summaries 1392 1480
haarlemmersluis 2 Keyword Summaries 1443 1469
haefdijxkinder, claes van 1 Keyword Summaries 1434  
haerlem, jan van, schout 1 Keyword Summaries 1446  
hagen jacobszoonskinder 1 Keyword Summaries 1417  
hairlem, claes van 1 Keyword Summaries 1466  
halmeer 1 Keyword Summaries 1437  
halversluis 2 Keyword Summaries 1443 1444
halverwetering 4 Keyword Summaries 1431 1443
handvesten 27 Keyword Summaries 1358 1477
harman willemszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
harrassment of officials 1 Keyword Summaries 1447  
hazerswoude 46 Keyword Summaries 1330 1529
hazerswoudseweg 1 Keyword Summaries 1448  
heemraad 7 Keyword Summaries 1459 1486
heemraadsbode 2 Keyword Summaries 1451 1468
heemraadsboek 8 Keyword Summaries 1421 1459
heemraadwijngaerden, thielman oem van 1 Keyword Summaries 1482  
heemraden 13 Keyword Summaries 1255 1506
heemsloot 1 Keyword Summaries 1469  
heemstede 4 Keyword Summaries 1417 1469
heemstede, gerijt van 1 Keyword Summaries 1437  
heemstede, jan van 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
heerweg 6 Keyword Summaries 1421 1457
heilige geest lant 1 Keyword Summaries 1434  
heimansbrug 1 Keyword Summaries 1429  
heinlaen 1 Keyword Summaries 1447  
hekken 4 Keyword Summaries 1444 1472
hemp reten 3 Keyword Summaries 1435 1453
hemsloot 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
heulen 17 Keyword Summaries 1443 1472
heymansbrug 3 Keyword Summaries 1432 1467
heymanswetering 2 Keyword Summaries 1442 1473
heynric airntzoons huis 1 Keyword Summaries 1415  
heynric albout 1 Keyword Summaries 1417  
heynric baertszoonsdijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1425  
heynric claeszoon 2 Keyword Summaries 1465 1528
heynric engelszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1437  
heynric harmanszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1425  
heynric hermanszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1430  
heynric jacopszoon 3 Keyword Summaries 1432 1435
heynric jan 1 Keyword Summaries 1417  
heynric janszoon 3 Keyword Summaries 1434 1529
heynric nevenskinderen 1 Keyword Summaries 1371  
heynricskamp, heren 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
heyrnic rijsheden 1 Keyword Summaries 1434  
hillegom 5 Keyword Summaries 1444 1482
hillegom, kerkmeesters van 1 Keyword Summaries 1480  
hillegommerbeek 2 Keyword Summaries 1408 1417
hoe, heynric van der, ambachtsbewaarder 1 Keyword Summaries 1442  
hoelen 2 Keyword Summaries 1437 1444
hoerne, dirc janszoon van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1469  
hoeve, dirc janszoon van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1457  
hofambacht 7 Keyword Summaries 1423 1477
hofbroek 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
hofcampen 1 Keyword Summaries 1456  
hofdijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
hofsteden 1 Keyword Summaries 1439  
hofvaart 1 Keyword Summaries 1445  
hofveen 1 Keyword Summaries 1455  
hofweg 1 Keyword Summaries 1452  
hoge rijndijk 11 Keyword Summaries 1330 1479
hoge zeedijk 34 Keyword Summaries 1255 1525
hogendijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1473  
hogenoort 1 Keyword Summaries 1436  
hogenwaardse dijk 2 Keyword Summaries 1440 1452
hogesluis 1 Keyword Summaries 1443  
hogeveen 11 Keyword Summaries 1434 1469
hogeveen affair 7 Keyword Summaries 1434 1451
hogewaard 1 Keyword Summaries 1442  
holes in rijndijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1436  
holland, raad van 7 Keyword Summaries 1363 1529
holland, stadhouder van 1 Keyword Summaries 1451  
homade, egbert gerijtszoon van 1 Keyword Summaries 1469  
hoofden 5 Keyword Summaries 1406 1472
hoofdschouwen 1 Keyword Summaries 1441  
hoope 1 Keyword Summaries 1416  
hoppen 3 Keyword Summaries 1421 1421
horn, claes van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1460  
horse mills 3 Keyword Summaries 1460 1528
horses 5 Keyword Summaries 1406 1460
houses 1 Keyword Summaries 1474  
houtdorp 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
houten, hughe van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1371  
houtrickerwech 1 Keyword Summaries 1430  
houtrijk 5 Keyword Summaries 1429 1477
houwen 3 Keyword Summaries 1450 1453
huge michielszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1371  
hughe albout 1 Keyword Summaries 1443  
hughe claeszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
hughe dammenszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1437  
hughe farchten 1 Keyword Summaries 1564  
huybert janszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1564  

 

     Keyword Next  
  haagse bos  
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).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haarlem  
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
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
1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 
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
1436.02.28 Limits the peat digging of citizens of Haarlem in Aalsmeer to four dagvelds per morgen, with no one allowed to dig more than a total of 32 dagvelds. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
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
1443.02.24 Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.
 
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
1445.02.23 Explanation that because of civil disorder in Haarlem the Petri ad cathedram (February) inspections were not held.
 
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
1447.00.00 Order the Kerksloot near Haarlem to be restored to one roede wide and as deep as is thought necessary.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1447.06.27 Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.
 
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
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
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
1454.10.08 Because all of Rijnland drains via the Spaarne and the Spaarndam and boats and fish corves attached to bridges hinder water flow, henceforth it is forbidden to moor boats or attach fish corves to to the middle three spans of the Visbrug and the middle five spans of the Langebrug near the Rozenprieel.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1454.10.08 Order that the width of passage in the Spaarne be maintained throughout as measured in the five spans of the Langebrug. Within this profile, no boats may be moored on pilings and such nor may fish corves be installed.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.02.24 In Haarlem, along the Spaarne, the insertion of fish corves or traps and the mooring of boats in the 3 middle spans of the Visbrug or the 5 middle spans of the Langebrug (near Rozenprieel) are prohibited.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.02.24 Landowners of Aalsmeer, including some residents of Haarlem, may dig no more than 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen and no more than 32 total or be fined 10 lbs. for every 10 dagvelds above the limit. This supercedes an earlier keur on this matter. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.05.04 Prohibit placement of fish corves or traps and mooring of boats between the main gaps in the bridges in the Spaarne at Haarlem.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.05.04 Order that the shoring along the Spaarne near the Rozenprieel that was ordered to be pulled in (i.e., moved back to widen channel) must be completed by 24 August.
 
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1463.10.04 Henceforth, the transferring of sand or shells from small to large ships in the Spaarne, between the Spaarndam and the beginning of the Spaarne in Heemstede, must be done with the help of a sail or linen cloth suspended between the two ships to prevent the materials from falling into the river and eventually hindering flow.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1463.10.04 In an attempt to regulate boat passage through the Grotesluis at Spaarndam, and to avoid damage to the sluice, the heemraden have decided that all wishing to pass through must first get a kerfstok (numbered stick) to determine their turn.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1469.02.28 Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.
 
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.
 
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 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
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).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haarlemmerhout  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haarlemmermeer  
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
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
1436.00.00 Limit peat digging close from within 50 rods of the lakes, except for Bennebroek, where the limit is 25 rods.
 
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
1457.05.03 Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1457.05.03 Order rerouting and repair of the road (Heerweg) near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1457.05.03 Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1466.07.01 Because residents of Hillegom and others have continued to dig too much peat, the hoogheemraden have clarified the keur on limiting peat digging to no closer than 50 rods of the lakes (except for Bennebroek), etc. From thenceforth they may dig only 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen on their own land. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1471.10.08 Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1480.05.09 Permission for kerkmeesters of Hillegom to dig a ditch 6 feet with through their land that lies along the lake.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haarlemmersluis  
Date Summary Rec details
1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1469.02.28 Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haefdijxkinder, claes van  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  haerlem, jan van, schout  
Date Summary Rec details
1446.02.22 Commend Jan van Haarlem, shout of Spaarndam, for repairing (repairing the shoring, adding dirt and fencing it off) the piece of dike between the Kolksluis (Grotesluis) and his dwelling, at his own cost, but he is not to do any further building on the site.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hagen jacobszoonskinder  
Date Summary Rec details
1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hairlem, claes van  
Date Summary Rec details
1466.05.06 Permission for Clais van Hairlem to breach the dike in front of his house that leads to Hogeveen and to bridge the gap with two bridge heads and a bridge surface with railings so that no one will be inconvenienced.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  halmeer  
Date Summary Rec details
1437.09.03 Heemraden order that Ghijsbrecht Jansz. be paid one white penny per roed for diking his share along the Halmeer and also for dirt.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  halversluis  
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
1444.10.06 Settlement of a dispute over maintenance of part of the Kostverloren dike which was completely rebuilt: a pole must not be placed in the middle where the former sluice lay; maintenance henceforth to be carried out according to the provisions of the documents issued in this matter, outside the expense of the Rijnland.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  halverwetering  
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
1431.09.05 Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1437.05.07 Decision to grant to Clais Jan Wouters z. a section of the embankment on his land at Kostverloren stretching to the Halverwetering
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  handvesten  
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
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
1361.12.21 Copy of a charter issued by Duke Aelbrecht confirming all the charters and privileges issued by his predecessors to the hoogheemraadschap.
 
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1391.02.13 Settlement a of dispute between the hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the hoogheemraden of Schieland concerning payment of morgengeld by Alphen -- concerns it's share in a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that ran through a section of Schieland and drained via a sluice into the IJssel. Alphen shall pay Rijnland for the portion lying in Rijnland and Schieland for the portion lying in Schieland.
 
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
1429.00.00 A reminder to plant alder (els) before digging peat, as specified in the charters.
 
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1434.06.29 Order Hogeveeners to inspect and carry out maintenance on the Benhuizen canal before St. Jacobs day or Benhuizen will be ordered to block it off.
 
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
1437.00.00 Oath of office for the hoogheemraden of Rijnland.
 
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
1439.06.24 Proclaim in all churches: no fishing paraphernalia may be set in any waterways according to the the evidence from the charters and keuren regarding the Oude Rijn.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1439.06.24 Proclaim in all churches: no fishing paraphernalia may be set in any waterways according to the the evidence from the charters and keuren regarding the Oude Rijn.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1441.06.28 Settlement of a dispute between Claes van Spaarnwoude and priest Jan Allairtszoon concerning lease of church property in spaarnwoude
 
Date Summary Rec details
1443.02.24 Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.
 
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
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
1444.05.05 In matters for which no charters (handvesten) or keuren exist, should resort to common law until keuren have been established.
 
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  harman willemszoon  
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
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  harrassment of officials  
Date Summary Rec details
1447.02.28 Must not harrass officials performing their duty
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hazerswoude  
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
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
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.
 
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
1399.03.08 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
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
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
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
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
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
1434.02.03 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
1435.11.28 Orders Hazertswoude and Benthuizen to pay what they owe for the maintenance responsibilities they have neglected with respect to the canal by Diewer Stientgens and the bridge in the Rijndijk.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1436.00.00 Heemraden instruct the dijkgraaf to block the drainage canal and sluice at Diewer Stientgens that serves Hazerswoude and Benthuizen.
 
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
1437.12.20 Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1443.03.13 Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
 
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
1446.06.28 Permission for Hazerswoude to eliminate a sluice in the Oostkade on the Hoge Rijndijk for lack of need.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1447.06.27 Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.
 
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
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
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
1451.06.29 Order the baliuw of Hazerswoude to summon the opponents of keeping the Dirc Doedenwatering open to come forward with a verklaring (legal argument) of why they oppose the measure.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1451.10.05 Order Boskoop, Hazerswoude, Snijdelwijk, Groenswaard, and Poelien to repair the shoring below the house of Jan Vechterszoon before 1 November. From then on Jan must maintain it at his own cost.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1453.05.08 Permission for schout of Hazerswoude, in his inspection and apportionment of maintenance responsibility for the two canals that replaced the Dirc Doedenwatering, to give partial remission to those still maintaining the Dirc Doedenwatering.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1453.05.08 Permission for schout and heemraad of Hazerswoude to inspect and apportion maintenance on its roads and canals 8 or 14 days after publically announcing their intent with a follow up inspection 8 days later to ensure that all required work was completed.
 
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
1455.05.06 Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1455.10.07 Permission for Hazerswoude to dig a canal 9 feet wide from the land of Mees Vranckenszoon to that of Jan Aelwijnszoon and then further along the Ommedijk. Thereafter, the schout shall inspect it like all other roads and canals.
 
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
1457.03.01 Permission for Benthuizen to inspect and maintain roads and canals in the same manner as Hazerswoude does. Two months later, at the May schouw, this item was crossed out with the mention that from thence onward their own, old manner of schouwen is restored.
 
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
1459.06.26 Permission for Voorschoten to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility in the same manner and against the same fines as does Hazerswoude, as written in the hoogheemraad's book..
 
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
1461.10.13 Permission for Koudekerk to schouw the entire ambacht from now on in the same manner as was approved for Hazerswoude in the past (1438).
 
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
1462.07.06 Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
 
Date Summary Rec details
1465.07.23 Report that Heijnic Claiszoon has become owner of land next to the land of Katrijn Jacob Dircxzoon in Hazerswoude which he bought from the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland for 14 plakken. It is agreed that he will have this land free of all obligations from before the day he purchased it. The middleman in this agreement was Dirck van Bossch, the heemraad's bode.
 
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
1483.03.04 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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1529.06.02 Settlement of dispute, that made its way to the Court of Holland, between the rentmeester of Rijnland and the village officials of Hazerswoude concerning maintenance requirement and monetary assessments assigned to Hazerswoude.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hazerswoudseweg  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemraad  
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
1459.04.24 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jacob van der Woude, to replace the late Gerijt van Poelgeest.
 
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
1479.07.23 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Poelgeest, in place of the late Jan van Poelgeest, his father.
 
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
1482.06.16 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gijsbrecht van Raphorst, in place of Dirc Boudijnszoon van Zwieten.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1486.09.06 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van der Does, in place of the late Adriaen van Zwieten.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemraadsbode  
Date Summary Rec details
1451.03.02 Permission for Aelbert die Viselair to move a road behind the begijnhof in Noordwijk; neither the bode, Pieter van Bosch, nor the villagers objected.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1468.05.03 Permission for an official from Schoot to collect morgengeld of the ambacht under the legal authority of the ambacht as if it had been done in the presence of the assistant to the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemraadsboek  
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
 
Date Summary Rec details
1436.02.28 Limits the peat digging of citizens of Haarlem in Aalsmeer to four dagvelds per morgen, with no one allowed to dig more than a total of 32 dagvelds. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1437.06.24 Orders schout and heemraden of each ambacht to inspect all canals at appointed times to ensure they are kept clean and free to drain; to see to it that residents carry out their duties in this regard.
 
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
1448.05.06 Permission for the schout of Woude [Woubrugge] to schouw in the same manner as the schout of Alkemade does, and he is given a copy of the relevant keur from the book.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.02.24 Landowners of Aalsmeer, including some residents of Haarlem, may dig no more than 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen and no more than 32 total or be fined 10 lbs. for every 10 dagvelds above the limit. This supercedes an earlier keur on this matter. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1459.06.26 Permission for Voorschoten to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility in the same manner and against the same fines as does Hazerswoude, as written in the hoogheemraad's book..
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemraadwijngaerden, thielman oem van  
Date Summary Rec details
1482.12.01 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Thielman Oem van Wijngaerden, in place of Gerijt van Poelgeest.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemraden  
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
1394.04.26 Confirmation by Duke Albrecht of an agreement between the dijkgraaf (and baljuw) and hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the free ambacht of Nieuwkoop concerning the drainage of Nieuwkoop at Spaarndam. Nieuwkoop will remain under the jurisdiction of Rijnland and may freely drain via the Spaarndam according to old practices because the old ruling concerning Nieuwkoop's earthworks at Zwammerdam remains in force.
 
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
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
1447.10.03 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
1448.02.27 Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1451.03.02 Permission for Aelbert die Viselair to move a road behind the begijnhof in Noordwijk; neither the bode, Pieter van Bosch, nor the villagers objected.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1453.10.17 Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
 
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).
 
Date Summary Rec details
1506.10.13 When a member of the hoogheemraad dies, his replacement will have a silver cross made weighing about 10 ounces.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemsloot  
Date Summary Rec details
1469.06.27 Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemstede  
Date Summary Rec details
1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1436.00.00 Prohibition of peat digging behind Heemstede, Bennebroek, with 4 dagvelds per morgen allowed between the Nieuweweg near Benebroek and Lisse. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1463.10.04 Henceforth, the transferring of sand or shells from small to large ships in the Spaarne, between the Spaarndam and the beginning of the Spaarne in Heemstede, must be done with the help of a sail or linen cloth suspended between the two ships to prevent the materials from falling into the river and eventually hindering flow.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemstede, gerijt van  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heemstede, jan van  
Date Summary Rec details
1450.06.30 Schout, kroosheemraden, and community of Benthuizen ask heemraden of Rijnland to settle a question concerning the keeping of a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) and a ditch. Schout Jan van Heemstede, village lord, gave permission for it in the past, but now much of the land near it has disappeared and the nootweg may be next. Some want to keep it, the ditch, and an 8-foot buffer because they still keep dwellings there.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heerweg  
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
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
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
1457.05.03 Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1457.05.03 Order rerouting and repair of the road (Heerweg) near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1457.05.03 Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heilige geest lant  
Date Summary Rec details
1434.06.29 Permission for Rijnsaterswoude to collect morgengeld from some church land (Hielige geest lant).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heimansbrug  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heinlaen  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hekken  
Date Summary Rec details
1444.10.10 Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
 
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
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
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hemp reten  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hemsloot  
Date Summary Rec details
1450.06.30 Schout, heemraden, and community of Benthuizen request permission for a drainage ditch to drain 500 roeden of its meadow lands. Permission was granted. 600 roeden equaled on morgen.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heulen  
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
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
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
1449.05.29 Permission for Huge van Berge to put a huel through the Boevesloot.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1451.03.02 Permission for Wilsveen to put a culvert under the road.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1451.10.05 Permission to Dirc Willem Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to put a culvert under the road in front of his house.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1452.05.02 Permission for Koudekerk and others to put culverts through the Lagenwaardse dijk to get rid of surplus water, with basic specifications for the culverts and the clapper doors to be attached.
 
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
1455.10.07 Permission to Martijn Everszoon and Wouter Hugenszoon and their associates to put a a culvert or small bridge in the Stompwijkerweg in Hofveen [i.e., Stompwijk], and thereafter they must plant alder [els] according to the keur.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1457.10.04 Permission for those of Achthoeven in Leiderdorp to construct a culvert or small bridge in a dike.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1463.03.01 Standardize how schouten and local heemraden are to conduct their business in Rijnland, including inspection procedures, choosing of heemraden, and compensation for expenses.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1465.10.08 Permission to Jan die Backer encircle his land on the Gouwekade in Randenburg with an embankment (omme bekade) and to put a small bridge or culvert (huelkijn) through the Gouwekade to bring water into his land. If anyone is damaged by this, Jan die Backer must compensate via the hoogheemraden.
 
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1471.05.07 Permission for Gerijt Sijmonszoon to put a heule (small bridge or culvert) in the Lage Rijndijk at Leiderdorp on the condition that he keeps his land enclosed so no one suffers from the opening in the dike.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1471.10.08 Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heymansbrug  
Date Summary Rec details
1432.00.00 Permission for Koudekerk to install a turnstile on the Heimansbrug
 
Date Summary Rec details
1435.00.00 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Heimansbrug.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1467.06.30 Dijkgraaf and heemraden concluded that the Oude Rijn, between the Heimansbrug and the Gouwesluis, probably doesn't need to be inspected by them any longer.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heymanswetering  
Date Summary Rec details
1442.10.02 Regulate the construction and maintenance of a new canal and encircling dike at Koudekerk and Oudshoorn. The new construction is to be at the expense of all of Koudekerk except for the Hooge Waard, while its upkeep will be shared by all, including the Hooge Waard. The old dike along the Heymanswetering may be sold off.
 
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
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric airntzoons huis  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric albout  
Date Summary Rec details
1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric baertszoonsdijk  
Date Summary Rec details
1425.00.00 Ordered Hofambocht to reconstruct the road that runs from Heynric Baertsz. buitendijks onto the Nieuwendijk as wide as necessary so that it can accomodate wagons with a good load, and it shall be as high as the outer edg of the Nieuwendijk and shall be completed by 24 June (sinte Jans dach te midsomer).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric claeszoon  
Date Summary Rec details
1465.07.23 Report that Heijnic Claiszoon has become owner of land next to the land of Katrijn Jacob Dircxzoon in Hazerswoude which he bought from the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland for 14 plakken. It is agreed that he will have this land free of all obligations from before the day he purchased it. The middleman in this agreement was Dirck van Bossch, the heemraad's bode.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric engelszoon  
Date Summary Rec details
1437.02.01 The widow of Meynert Dircszonn, Aechte, agrees to assume responsibility for land and attendant hydraulic requirements of Lijsbet Jans dochter, who abandoned her land and has fled the area.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric harmanszoon  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric hermanszoon  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric jacopszoon  
Date Summary Rec details
1432.00.00 Permission for Heynric Jacopszoon to lay a bridge in a road at Rijnsaterswoude
 
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 Heynric Jacopszoon to carry out inspections in Leimuiden, Vriesekoop, and Rijnsaterswoude with five heemraden instead of seven and to do so twice, once at the expense of the ambachten and the other according to custom.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric jan  
Date Summary Rec details
1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric janszoon  
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
1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1529.06.02 Settlement of dispute, that made its way to the Court of Holland, between the rentmeester of Rijnland and the village officials of Hazerswoude concerning maintenance requirement and monetary assessments assigned to Hazerswoude.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynric nevenskinderen  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heynricskamp, heren  
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
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  heyrnic rijsheden  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hillegom  
Date Summary Rec details
1444.03.17 Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
 
Date Summary Rec details
1452.10.10 Permission for Bartout van Assendelft of Hillegom to move a road in front of his house.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1466.07.01 Because residents of Hillegom and others have continued to dig too much peat, the hoogheemraden have clarified the keur on limiting peat digging to no closer than 50 rods of the lakes (except for Bennebroek), etc. From thenceforth they may dig only 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen on their own land. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
 
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
1482.07.02 Permission for heemraden of Hillegom and Lisse, who now schouw (inspect and maintain) at their own cost to henceforth do three annual schouws and in return receive 1 lb. per schouw -- on 10 July 1498 this apparently was amended to four shouwen per year.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hillegom, kerkmeesters van  
Date Summary Rec details
1480.05.09 Permission for kerkmeesters of Hillegom to dig a ditch 6 feet with through their land that lies along the lake.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hillegommerbeek  
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
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoe, heynric van der, ambachtsbewaarder  
Date Summary Rec details
1442.12.20 An official of Koudekerk explains that, with consent of the village lord, the schout, the majority of residents of Koudekerk, and the heemraaden of Rijnland, he has sold a kade for the benefit of Gnephoeck (Oudshoorn) for 35 Wilhelmusschilden which money he has laid out for the construction of a new kade at Koudekerk stretching from the Lagenwaardse dike en Ofwegen (Koudekerk).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoelen  
Date Summary Rec details
1437.09.24 Kroosheemraden of Oegstgeest issue a keur concerning how they will inspect all hydraulic works in the ambacht and stipulate how much it will cost.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoerne, dirc janszoon van der  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoeve, dirc janszoon van der  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofambacht  
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
1423.00.00 Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1425.00.00 Ordered Hofambocht to reconstruct the road that runs from Heynric Baertsz. buitendijks onto the Nieuwendijk as wide as necessary so that it can accomodate wagons with a good load, and it shall be as high as the outer edg of the Nieuwendijk and shall be completed by 24 June (sinte Jans dach te midsomer).
 
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
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
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
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofbroek  
Date Summary Rec details
1450.06.30 Permission for some residents of Oegstgeest to dig a canal through the Hofbroek, from the sluice in the Hofdijk to the Poel.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofcampen  
Date Summary Rec details
1456.05.04 Order the old Breetsloot, a ditch or canal somewhere around Haarlem, be restored to its old use and condition.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofdijk  
Date Summary Rec details
1450.06.30 Permission for some residents of Oegstgeest to dig a canal through the Hofbroek, from the sluice in the Hofdijk to the Poel.
 

 

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

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofvaart  
Date Summary Rec details
1445.04.20 Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofveen  
Date Summary Rec details
1455.10.07 Permission to Martijn Everszoon and Wouter Hugenszoon and their associates to put a a culvert or small bridge in the Stompwijkerweg in Hofveen [i.e., Stompwijk], and thereafter they must plant alder [els] according to the keur.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hofweg  
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
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoge rijndijk  
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
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
1403.10.08 Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1421.05.25 Regulations concerning transport of peat through sluices in the Rijndijk: only while flowing out. Also, as necessary, must build spoyen (ship locks) with kadijken so that no one will be damaged.
 
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
 
Date Summary Rec details
1424.12.09 Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk be widened by a foot at the top and two feet at the base. In addition, the entire length is to be raised by a foot above the current highest parts and all breaches filled to full dimensions as stipulated. The work is to be done before the next Christmas eve, and all are to be at work on the next Tuesday. Failure to comply to be subject to a fine of 10 lb. And the dams that lie in front of the sluices are to be enlarged to one foot higher than the sluice doors themselves.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1425.06.24 Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk should lie two feet from the bank or the Rijn. It should be nine feet wide at the base and six feet on top, and rise to seven feet above the water. The work must be completed before August 15 (Assumptio S. Marie) and be inspected two days later.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1436.10.01 Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1479.03.02 Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work along the Oude Rijn (Hoge Rijndijk).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoge zeedijk  
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
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
1417.05.03 Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike.
 
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
1431.09.05 Part of an agreement between Rijnland and Aernt Vechtersz. by which the latter assumes responsibility for maintenance for a portion of the the Spaarndammerdijk near Amsterdam, called Kostverloren, while Rijnland compensates him by giving him a portion of the kade by Kostverloren as a possession.
 
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
1431.09.05 Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1438.06.24 Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
 
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
1445.10.05 No schouw of the Hoge Zeedijk or Spaandammerdijk because of disorder in Amsterdam.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1447.11.14 Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1449.06.05 Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
 
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
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 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
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1464.06.27 Limit peat digging in Sloten and Ostdorp to no closer than 100 rods from the lakes and 500 rods from the dike.
 
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1479.03.02 Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work on the Hogendijk (Hoge Zeedijk; Spaarndammerdijk) between Amsterdam and Spaarndam.
 
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).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogendijk  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogenoort  
Date Summary Rec details
1436.00.00 Prohibition of peat digging in the Hogenoort.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogenwaardse dijk  
Date Summary Rec details
1440.06.28 Those vested in the Hogenwaardsedijk may keep it in its current location as long as they do the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) and it accords with the will of the community.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1452.10.02 Permission for villagers of Koudekerk to apportion the Hogenwaardse dike for maintenance duties (verhoefslagen)
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogesluis  
Date Summary Rec details
1443.05.19 Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogeveen  
Date Summary Rec details
1434.06.29 Order Hogeveeners to inspect and carry out maintenance on the Benhuizen canal before St. Jacobs day or Benhuizen will be ordered to block it off.
 
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
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
1440.03.23 Order the dijkgraaf to seize property in Hogeveen to compensate for arrears in payment.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1447.06.27 Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.
 
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
1449.11.18 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
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
1454.05.07 Because turf boats have caused extensive dammage to the Barle Canal and its embankment (ran from Oude Rijn along the south side of Diewer Stienkijns to Hogeveen), boats are now prohibited from the canal.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1466.05.06 Permission for Clais van Hairlem to breach the dike in front of his house that leads to Hogeveen and to bridge the gap with two bridge heads and a bridge surface with railings so that no one will be inconvenienced.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogeveen affair  
Date Summary Rec details
1434.06.29 Order Hogeveeners to inspect and carry out maintenance on the Benhuizen canal before St. Jacobs day or Benhuizen will be ordered to block it off.
 
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
1436.00.00 Heemraden instruct the dijkgraaf to block the drainage canal and sluice at Diewer Stientgens that serves Hazerswoude and Benthuizen.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1446.10.04 All whose lands drain with Rijnland through the Spaarndam, but have not yet paid their part, must make an appearance to receive their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), acknowledged in writting, or face having their drainage blocked -- all according to the charters of Rijnland.
 
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
1449.11.18 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
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hogewaard  
Date Summary Rec details
1442.10.02 Regulate the construction and maintenance of a new canal and encircling dike at Koudekerk and Oudshoorn. The new construction is to be at the expense of all of Koudekerk except for the Hooge Waard, while its upkeep will be shared by all, including the Hooge Waard. The old dike along the Heymanswetering may be sold off.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  holes in rijndijk  
Date Summary Rec details
1436.10.01 Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  holland, raad van  
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
1391.02.13 Settlement a of dispute between the hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the hoogheemraden of Schieland concerning payment of morgengeld by Alphen -- concerns it's share in a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that ran through a section of Schieland and drained via a sluice into the IJssel. Alphen shall pay Rijnland for the portion lying in Rijnland and Schieland for the portion lying in Schieland.
 
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
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
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
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
1529.06.02 Settlement of dispute, that made its way to the Court of Holland, between the rentmeester of Rijnland and the village officials of Hazerswoude concerning maintenance requirement and monetary assessments assigned to Hazerswoude.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  holland, stadhouder van  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  homade, egbert gerijtszoon 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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoofden  
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
1455.10.07 Permission to Willem van Leeuwen to contruct two bridge-heads in the canal behind his dwelling in Voorschoten.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1466.05.06 Permission for Clais van Hairlem to breach the dike in front of his house that leads to Hogeveen and to bridge the gap with two bridge heads and a bridge surface with railings so that no one will be inconvenienced.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1469.06.27 Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoofdschouwen  
Date Summary Rec details
1441.06.28 Heemraden establish dates for their primary inspections: the first Tuesday after May Day, after St. John the Baptist's Day, after St. Bavo's Day, and after St. Peter's Day.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoope  
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).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hoppen  
Date Summary Rec details
1421.05.25 Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1421.05.25 Order the restoration of the Hoppen, especially its shoring or plaatwerk, in Sloten and Osdorp to the specifications indicated.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1421.05.25 Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  horn, claes van der  
Date Summary Rec details
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.
 

 

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

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  horses  
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
1421.05.25 Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1455.05.06 Concerning the grazing of livestock on the geest (sandy coastal ridges) in Oegsgeest: livestock found grazing on land other than one's own will be confiscated against payment (schutten).
 
Date Summary Rec details
1456.05.04 Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land.
 
Date Summary Rec details
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houses  
Date Summary Rec details
1474.06.28 Permission for Govert Pieterszoon at Spaarndam to build a new house on the place where three very small houses had been burned down on condition that space for an alley (steeg) remains between the new house and existing house.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houtdorp  
Date Summary Rec details
1450.05.05 Hoogheemraden authorized the moving of a turnstile on Mijchiels wael
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houten, hughe van der  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houtrickerwech  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houtrijk  
Date Summary Rec details
1429.00.00 The heemraden of Houtrijk order the rebuilding of the Schinkeldijk
 
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
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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
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.
 
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  houwen  
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
1450.06.30 Follows on a keur made on 5 May regarding cleaning of the Oude Rijn with houwen and layken, the long pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water; a followup inspection is ordered for the Friday after St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August).
 
Date Summary Rec details
1453.06.26 All orchards and enclosures must be removed from within 6 feet of the water's edge along both sides of the Oude Rijn by the Friday after St. Bartholomew's (31 August).
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  huge michielszoon  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hughe albout  
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.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hughe claeszoon  
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
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hughe dammenszoon  
Date Summary Rec details
1437.06.27 A further unspecified road is to be inspected.
 

 

  Prev  Keyword Next  
  hughe farchten  
Date Summary Rec details
1564.01.25 Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.
 

 

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

 

 

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