Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland OAR 11, 12, 13 : 1253 - 1564
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Keywords "P"...	Count	Record Summaries	Record Details First  -  Last
pacht	2		1533	1564
paen willem vroenzoon	1		1528
palen	1		1448
panden	3		1434	1445
pandkering	2		1440	1453
papenweg	3		1452	1472
pardon	1		1437
payment	2		1421	1421
peat digging	43		1392	1478
peatland, wild	1		1399
pedestrian bridge	1		1448
penninggeld	10		1415	1529
petten	1		1388
philip the good, duke of burgundy	3		1426	1443
phillips aechtenzoon	1		1371
phillips aechtenzoonskinderen	1		1371
phillips andrieszoon	1		1371
phillips janszoon	1		1384
phillips vranckenzoon, notarius	1		1528
pieter aechtenzoon	1		1384
pieter cillen warf	1		1477
pieter claeszoon	1		1460
pieter coster	1		1421
pieter dever	1		1421
pieter dircxzoon	2		1469	1483
pieter gerijtzoon	1		1441
pieter goedselszoon	1		1371
pieter hilbrantszoon	1		1452
pieter jacobszoon	1		1437
pieter jacobzoon	1		1437
pieter jorden	1		1434
pieter jordijnszoon	1		1430
pieter jorgelszoon	1		1432
pieter nenenzoon	1		1435
pieter onderwaters erfnamen	1		1431
pieter reynoutszoon	1		1469
pieter rugezoon	1		1426
pieter sibrantszoon	1		1478
pieter vogelair	1		1447
pieter willem hasen	1		1437
pieter willemszoon	2		1449	1472
pieter willemzoon	1		1421
pigs	3		1417	1456
plaatwerk	11		1421	1525
planting	3		1455	1460
poel	2		1450	1483
poelgeest, adriaen van	2		1479	1495
poelgeest, gerijt van	64		1419	1527
poelgeest, gerijt van, ambachtsheer	1		1442
poelgeest, jan van	27		1438	1479
poelien	13		1330	1525
poelienrewatering	1		1450
pol, danel uten	1		1384
polanen	2		1405	1450
polder formation	7		1399	1469
polders	7		1423	1457
pollution	5		1435	1483
poorters	5		1385	1525
poorters of delft	1		1437
pouwels adriaenszoon	1		1529
pouwels dammeszoon	1		1471
priest	2		1361	1451
principaelste ingelanden	2		1525	1529
privileges	1		1361
procedures	71		1400	1506
procuratoer, jan boem	1		1447
promissory note	1		1437
proost van bergen	1		1401
pumping	10		1447	1528
punishment	2		1453	1477

 

	Keyword
	pacht
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

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

 

	Keyword
	palen
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..

 

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	panden
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1434.00.00	For Zoeterwoude to recover unpaid morgengeld by seizing property of those in arrears.
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1440.03.23	Order the dijkgraaf to seize property in Hogeveen to compensate for arrears in payment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden

 

	Keyword
	pandkering
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
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	papenweg
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1452.10.24	Permission for schout and buren of Wassenaar to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) on a canal beginning at the Papewech and extended eastwards about 100 roeden.
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1472.05.05	Permission for Voorschoten to put two stone bridges in the Papenwech over the canals at such height and width that an aelman (small, flat-bottomed boat) loaded with peat or wood can sail through them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.06.30	Permission to Wassenaar to place a stone bridge in the Papenwech over the watering near Zandhorst Manor in the same manner as the bridge approved recently for Voorschoten (5 May 1472)

 

	Keyword
	pardon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.02.26	Lijsbet Mandemakers is pardoned for something not specified.

 

	Keyword
	payment
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1421.05.25	Order to pay for dirt according to the value established by the the heemraden
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1421.05.25	Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.

 

	Keyword
	peat digging
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
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).
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1417.02.22	Requirement: all who dig peat in Rijnland must plant alder [els] between now and Easter on two hont of every morgen they hold, without exception. The same goes for those near the lakes, and no pit may be wider than four feet [one hont = one-sixth of a morgen].
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1421.05.25	Regulate the planting of alder [els] where turf has been mined.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Restrictions on digging peat; must be linked to alder [els] planting
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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
1426.09.26	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Limit on depth allowed in peat digging.
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1429.00.00	A reminder to plant alder (els) before digging peat, as specified in the charters.
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1434.00.00	Permission for Walich Janszoon to carry off and use the turf that Gerijt Boenenzoon bought from him in Vriesekoop until the latter fulfills his morgengeld and prescribed maintenance work responsibilities.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Before digging peat, must plant alder [els].
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
1436.00.00	Prohibition of peat digging in the Hogenoort.
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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
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
1436.03.04	Permission to residents of Zoetermeer to dig peat in the Groenen Erve section as long as they discharge all perform all prescribed maintenance work and pay all morgengeld.
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1437.06.25	Permission for Pieter Willem Hasen to cut a passage through a road in Waddinxveen so that he can transport his peat by water, on condition that he install a bridge over the gap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.24	Representatives of city of Leiden, Gerijt van Oestgeest, Jan Heerman, and Willem Bort, promise to appear on Wednesday eight days hence to account for the city's actions regarding alder [els] planting, i.e., poeten or poten, a requirement before beginning to dig peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.
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1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	All land in Rijnland, regardless of quality, falls under the jurisdiction of dijkrecht as is written in another document, here appended
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Settlement of a dispute concerning payment for dirt used in dike repair.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Must plant alder [els] before digging peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	Revision of an old keur prohibiting digging of peat within 50 rods of the lakes (though for Bennebroek within 25 roeden). From now on anyone digging more than 4 dagvelds per morgen will pay a fine of 10 lb. per 10 dagvelds in excess. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Decision regarding Hogeveen which had long refused to assume its responsibilities in Rijnland's common works and, as a consequence, had been threatened with having its drainage route dammed off. In February 1449 (OAR14, 38v-a) it had been delayed until Easter. Now, a group from Hogeveen has petitioned to have it further delayed while some sort of agreement is worked out. The heemraden, with this keur, agree that the damming will be put off until St. Peter's schouw (24 February 1450) if the Hogeveeners agree to pay morgengeld at the same rate as do their neighboring ambachten and also abide by peat digging regulations such as posting bond, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for Jongvrouw of Egmond to leave two parcels of good land in Zegwaard un-dug until a ground rent as bond (waarborg) can be established as the heemraden have requested from her. The matter was continued until 4 May 1451.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.12.17	Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	A number of people oppose the permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for a canal in Zegwaard; the latter two respond that many others support them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for 5 or 6 residents of Zegwaard to decide the levy needed for payment to hoogheemraadschap of Schieland for turf digging.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
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
1460.02.26	Authorization for Dirc Hoochstraet to maintain the Lage brug (Low Bridge) in Waddinxveen with dirt and wood provided at his own expense at sufficient height for peat and other materials to be transported under it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.03.01	Reiteration: all land that benefits from Rijnland's drainage system must pay morgengeld
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
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
1469.09.28	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
1472.03.10	Try to regulate the buying and selling of land that has been mined for peat, in particular to insure that owed taxes are paid by the buyer; such transactions must be overseen by schout and heemraden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Voorschoten to put two stone bridges in the Papenwech over the canals at such height and width that an aelman (small, flat-bottomed boat) loaded with peat or wood can sail through them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.

 

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

 

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

 

	Keyword
	penninggeld
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
1443.03.13	Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
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1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Forgive some of the penninggeld due from Riedwijk and Nieuwerkerk because of the losses they have suffered from flooding by the lakes [Haarlemmermeer].
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
1456.10.05	Those who collect assessments for the hoogheemraden or for village officials must turn in the amounts they are responsible for, even if is at their own expense.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld
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).
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.

 

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

 

	Keyword
	philip the good, duke of burgundy
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.09.26	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

	Keyword
	phillips janszoon
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

 

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

 

	Keyword
	pieter aechtenzoon
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

 

	Keyword
	pieter cillen warf
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.

 

	Keyword
	pieter claeszoon
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.

 

	Keyword
	pieter coster
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.

 

	Keyword
	pieter dever
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	For Pieter Dever to put a bridge in a road in front of his orchard to be maintained to the satisfaction of the schout and heemraden of the ambacht, unspecified.

 

	Keyword
	pieter dircxzoon
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
1483.03.04	Permission for Willem Hendricxzoon, Pieter Dircxzoon, Wouter Janszoon, and Claes Janszoon to pump water with a new mill at Hazerswoude as long as no one is harmed by it.

 

	Keyword
	pieter gerijtzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).

 

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

 

	Keyword
	pieter hilbrantszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Spaarnwoude to place a turnstile on the road behand Pieter Hillebrantazonns house.

 

	Keyword
	pieter jacobszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Testimony concerning land against which a lien had been placed because of prescribed maintenance work left undone.

 

	Keyword
	pieter jacobzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.10.01	Pieter Jacobsz. gave Jan Andriesz a note acknowledging that he owed the latter 40 sc. per year for a mortgage on some land.

 

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

 

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

 

	Keyword
	pieter jorgelszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Regulate maintenance of a road, location unspecified. Pieter Jorgelszoon is responsible for half of it (i.e., both ends), and the other half in between is assigned to those responsible for it in the past.

 

	Keyword
	pieter nenenzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Inspection of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) at Waddinxveen with agreement that it meets standards.

 

	Keyword
	pieter onderwaters erfnamen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.00.00	List of individuals banished in 1431

 

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

 

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

 

	Keyword
	pieter sibrantszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.

 

	Keyword
	pieter vogelair
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.

 

	Keyword
	pieter willem hasen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Permission for Pieter Willem Hasen to cut a passage through a road in Waddinxveen so that he can transport his peat by water, on condition that he install a bridge over the gap.

 

	Keyword
	pieter willemszoon
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
1472.10.06	Permission for Pieter Willemszoon to sell his interest in the Kostverloren dike and invest the proceeds in else of similar value. A new letter to that effect will be issued by Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	pieter willemzoon
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.

 

	Keyword
	pigs
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
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.

 

	Keyword
	plaatwerk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.01	Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
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
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Some decisions in a long-standing dispute between the small villages along the Gouwe and Alphen concerning the maintenance of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen. It was put in order in this year as described, and it was concluded that, for the moment, this is probably the best way to continue doing it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Middelburg must discharge it maintenance responsibilities on the Schinkeldijk (Spaarndam) within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Permission for Martin Dircxz. to maintain the shoring in t,e same manner as is done at Leidmuiden and Ter Aar, at his own cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.05.04	Settlement of dispute between Mertijn Dircxzoon and his nephew, Clais Heijnricxzoon concerning responsibility for maintaining the shoring on the Spaarndammerdijk, behind the Kolk (Grote sluis), formerly maintained by Leimuiden and Ter Aar.
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
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	planting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for residents of Zegwaard who live along the Dwars Nieuwevaart to construct bridges over the canal so they can do their sowing and planting for 14 days beginning with St. Servaas Day [13 May] and again for 14 days in August beginning on St. Lawrence Day [10 August].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Order the restoration of the Rijndijk along both banks to be maintained at minimally 18 roede feet wide, and all plantings that have impinged on this width must be removed. Reiteration of earlier orders.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.

 

	Keyword
	poel
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

	Keyword
	poelgeest, adriaen van
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
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

	Keyword
	poelgeest, gerijt van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.09.05	Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.08.31	Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	The stoeling (assessments, assignment of maintenance responsibilities) for Spaarnwoude shall remain as they are as long as they remain outside the territory of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.05.01	Symon Heinricxzoon and associates can disassociate themselves from Valkenburg in matters of drainage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.02.24	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	Order Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten to repair the dike breach at Stompwijk (presumably along the Zoetermeer).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	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
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Schout of Koudekerk to announce and carry inspection of the sluices and culverts in the Hoge Rijndijk in the same manner as consented to for Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.06.29	Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.08.24	Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	The dijkgraaf had accused Willem Kuser of Boshuizen for fishing with eel traps in Rijnland. The latter claimed he did so just as the rentmeester of Noordholland did, referring to old customs. Further he claimed that he should be judged by an offical of the Court of Holland, not of the Hoogheemraadschap. After looking into the matter, the hoogheemraaden claimed jurisdiction and decided that the dijkgraaf should proceed according to old charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Decision to block the drainage from Hogeveen into the Oude Rijn because Hogeveen, even after 3 warnings, has refused accept its apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or to pay its share in the drainage costs of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
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
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
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
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.12.01	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Thielman Oem van Wijngaerden, in place of Gerijt van Poelgeest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1491.03.01	Settlement of a dispute over payment of aardgeld, place unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	poelgeest, gerijt van, ambachtsheer
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).

 

	Keyword
	poelgeest, jan van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.07.04	Permission for Dirck Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to construct a huel (bridge or culvert) through the road/dike in front of his door.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Decision to block the drainage from Hogeveen into the Oude Rijn because Hogeveen, even after 3 warnings, has refused accept its apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or to pay its share in the drainage costs of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Unless she repays twice the amount of money that the schout of Vriesekoop put up on her behalf, Geertruyt Geryt Goemen will be banned from Rijnland.
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
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
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1456.04.06	Permission for Zoeterwoude to construct a dam in the canal that the residents of Stompwijk had made from the Brede weer on the Ommedijk because the residents of Zoeterwoude have suffered from too much water coming through the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
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
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad to replace one who died is made by the surviving hoogheemraden. The person chosen will pay for 32 masses at the monastery in Warmond for the soul of the one who died, as well as other expenses involved in memorializing their late colleague.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.10.09	A few months earlier, permission had been granted to residents of the Blocklanden in Benthuizen to dig a new canal on the end of the Blocklanden, beginning on the Gelderswoudse canal through Allart Meeszoons dam and continuing to the road near Benthuizerhorn -- 8 feet wide, with specifications for any bridges, etc. But, because some now opposed it, two heemraden of Rijnland, Jacob van Woude and Jan van Poelgeest, went to have a look. and ordered, in the name of entire college of hoogheemraden, that Allart Meeszoon's dam be raised and provisioned with two hoofden 7 roeden feet apart at the expense of the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard, and the latter shall schouw the canal and road ditch. The old canal belonging to the Blocklanden shall be left un-schouwed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.14	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1479.07.23	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Poelgeest, in place of the late Jan van Poelgeest, his father.

 

	Keyword
	poelien
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
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
1434.02.03	Permission for a canal in Poelien, to be constructed by Florijs van Boschuijsen.
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
1450.06.30	Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
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
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenwaard to the schouw (inspect and maintain) the area canals between the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering for the benefit of the land. Along the east side of the cross canals that will connect the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering, they are to provide a lijdweg or path one rod wide.
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
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	poelienrewatering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.

 

	Keyword
	pol, danel uten
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

 

	Keyword
	polanen
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
1450.05.05	Hoogheemraden authorized the moving of a turnstile on Mijchiels wael

 

	Keyword
	polder formation
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
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
1447.00.00	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.10.04	Permission for Leiderdorp to construct a kade around the polder land known as the Kerckbou according to the ordinances and cedulen that the heemraden previously issued.
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.

 

	Keyword
	polders
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
1436.02.28	Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.
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
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Kaden to stay closed (unbreached) until St. Peter's ad cathedram (22 February)
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
1457.10.04	Permission for Leiderdorp to construct a kade around the polder land known as the Kerckbou according to the ordinances and cedulen that the heemraden previously issued.

 

	Keyword
	pollution
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	An addendum to another keur stipulating how and where flax and hemp may be rotted along the Oude Rijn trajectory
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Replaces older keuren of 1435 (OAR11, 35v-d and 35v-e) by tightening restrictions on rotting flax or hemp in the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Prohibit water pollution in the form of filth and trash to enter the Oude Rijn
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

	Keyword
	poorters
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
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
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
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
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	poorters of delft
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.

 

	Keyword
	pouwels adriaenszoon
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.

 

	Keyword
	pouwels dammeszoon
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.

 

	Keyword
	priest
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
1451.03.05	An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen).

 

	Keyword
	principaelste ingelanden
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).
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.

 

	Keyword
	privileges
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.

 

	Keyword
	procedures
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.00.00	Surviving hoogheemraden are to pay for masses for the souls of hoogheemraden who die in office.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate how morgengeld is to be levied along the Scafgaende weren in Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Ordered changing the inspection days for Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten from May and St. Martin's Mass to mid-March and the Thursday after St. Bavo's day.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1422.04.10	Ordered the heemraden of Leiderdorp to redo the assignment of prescribed work (verhoefslagen) for the Dwarswetering because the current assignment was so out of date that no one remembered anymore what work must be done by whom.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.00.00	Testimony taken in inquest done at Lisse into the matter of water being allowed to drain into Rijnland because several had dug through a dune at the request of the houtvesters -- possibly to relieve flooding.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulates how those within Lisse should pay morgen morgensgelijk just as if they all had emerged from wilderness.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Oath of office for the hoogheemraden of Rijnland.
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
1437.06.25	Procedures for getting neighbors to cooperate in keeping ditches in good order.
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
1437.12.20	Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: from now on, officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg may apportion prescribed maintenance work for the Spaarndam and the Doeswetering with one instead of three officials.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.ca	Testimony and a decision in a dispute between Tielman van Buschusen and the ambacht of Zoeterwoude concening whether or not Zoeterwoude had paid Tielman the amount to be collected but which was never turned over to the clerk of Rijnland. Because a credible witness sided with Zoeterwoude, so did the hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.ca	Testomony and a decision in a dispute between Tielman van Buschusen and the ambacht of Leiderdorp concening whether or not Leiderdorp had paid Tielman the amount to be collected but which was never turned over to the clerk of Rijnland. Because the witness sided with Tielman, do did the hoogheemraden, though Leiderdorp could appeal the decision with new evidence within eight days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.02.25	Order Voorschoten to choose officials in the customary manner within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.05.06	Procedures: order the schout of Vennep to inspect all roads during the month of May and at other times as is customary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Requires local, village officials to submit their accounts to the heemraden before they levy morgengeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.03.23	A decision made by four heemraden with the dijkgraaf is just as binding as if it were made by all.
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.
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).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	Officials in Heer Jacobswoude, Leimuiden, Rijnsaterswoude, and Vriesekoop shall announce and carry out their inspections in the same manner as specified for Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Reemphasize the prohibition against harrasment officials or workers performing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibition against residents of Rijnland bringing hydraulic issues to any other jurisdictions.
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
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Leiderdorp must obey the rules and regulation established by the old keuren
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.02.28	Must not harrass officials performing their duty
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to carry out inspections from now on with 5 instead of 7 heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Endorsement of an earlier keur requiring submission of last year's accounts from Rijnland's ambachten to the hoogheemraden before they can order new assessments. Now is added a time period for submission and a 10 lb. fine if the accounts are not properly submitted.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Reissuance of instructions to all ambachten of Rijnland that when choosing new officials, one should remain on board until the next time -- to ensure continuity. This seems to be a reissuance of an earlier keur from 1445.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	The hoogheemraden decided to send their assistants (dienres) to inspect the Does this time while they and village officials who had no problems to point out along the Does remained in Leiden to carry on with legal and other matters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Prohibit schout and village officials of Noordwijk or Noordwijkerhout from contracting for hydraulic work other than their own -- to avoid conflicts of interest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the schout of Voorschoten to carry out the main and followup inspections of the Lage Rijndijk within Valkenburg and Wassenaar on 18 October and 17 March, and all other inspections according to customary practice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.05.04	Permission for village officials in Rijnland to report their inability to collect authorized amounts to hoogheemraden; the latter presumably will pursue delinquints.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.10.05	Confirm a decision that from now on hoogheemraden must attend all meetings or be assessed (from their compensation from the penninggeld) 6 lbs. per missed meeting unless they are ill or have had to travel to outside of Holland, Zeeland, or Friesland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for schout and village officials of Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to schouw from now on when they think best, without consulting with the villagers.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	From now on, anyone who charges someone else falsely before the hoogheemraad shall pay all costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.10.05	Those who collect assessments for the hoogheemraden or for village officials must turn in the amounts they are responsible for, even if is at their own expense.
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
1457.03.01	Permission for the smaldorpen (small villages: Groenswaard, Boskoop, Snijdelwijk, and Randenburg) to collapse their two schouwen into one to be held whenever deemed necessary, as long as it was announced in all the churches 14 days in advance.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	If the dijkgraaf is absent from a schouw- or rechtsdag, the heemraden will appoint one of their own who is rentmeester to be dijkgraaf, and if the rentmeester also is absent, those present will cast lots to choose a dijkgraaf.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Ter Aar to schouw with five instead of seven heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
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
1462.07.06	Permission for Ter Aar and Schoot to inspect and assign maintenance responsibilities 14 days after it was announced in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.07.06	Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.05.03	For any land changing hands in Zegwaard, the seller must notify the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard who will note the names of buyer and seller in a book which they must keep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.03.12	Permission for schout and kroosheemraden of Benthuizen to decide the extent of the schouw (inspections and assignment of maintenance responsibilities) of all the canals and waterways within their ambacht and to do so in such a manner that the entire ambacht will benefit.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Those summoning witnesses for matters before the heemraad must pay witnesses' expenses when they lose their cases.
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.

 

	Keyword
	procuratoer, jan boem
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.

 

	Keyword
	promissory note
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.10.01	Pieter Jacobsz. gave Jan Andriesz a note acknowledging that he owed the latter 40 sc. per year for a mortgage on some land.

 

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	proost van bergen
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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.

 

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	pumping
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1460.05.06	Permission for Zegwaard to pump with windmills into the Schieland drainage level even though the windmills were located in Rijnland territory where windmill use was limited by Rijnland's regulations.
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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.
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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.
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1474.05.10	Consent for residents of Alphen inside the new dike (polder between the Oostkade and the Gouwekade) to put a water mill on their land with which to pump into the Oude Rijn on condition that the new dike remain closed and that no water from the Watergang der Vier Ambachten comes through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.03.04	Permission for Willem Hendricxzoon, Pieter Dircxzoon, Wouter Janszoon, and Claes Janszoon to pump water with a new mill at Hazerswoude as long as no one is harmed by it.
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1483.07.15	Permission for Heinric van Naeldwijc to replace the horse mills with windmills to pump water from his lordship in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

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	punishment
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
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.

 

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