Alexander Price

Alexander Prees, camlet merchant from England, was accepted as citizen on the testimony and surety of Henrick Woedt, serge merchant, and Rogier Wiltson, serge weaver, on the aforesaid day.

In the margin: received three guilders four stuivers.

Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden. This entry is a brief citizen's registration line rather than a full notarial act.

There appeared before the undersigned aldermen of the city of Leiden, Alexander Prijs, camlet weaver, aged about fifty-three years, and Rogier Wit, grocer, aged about thirty-six years, who, having been lawfully sworn and examined under solemn oath, at the request of Jan Soet, dyer, testified and declared it to be true that the aforesaid petitioner is a resident of this city and a man of honour, who in his trade, conduct and dealings has shown himself to be none other than a man of honour ought and is bound to be, without the deponents ever having heard or understood that he was rumoured or reputed to have been involved in any evil deeds, offences or misdeeds, still less that he had ever been apprehended for any such thing.

The deponents gave as the ground of their knowledge that they have had good acquaintance and dealings with him for about two or three years within this city. So truly may Almighty God help them.

Done the 7th of July, sixteen hundred and twenty-five.

Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.

South Rapenburch. Gillis Elsevier, having bought and divided this from the house on the Rapenburch, and charged as noted there. Nonnensteech, again in the passage, east side.

4-8-1610: Sold by him to Pineas Eduwaert, hosier, for a ground rent of six guilders five stuivers per year, and in addition one hundred twenty guilders to be paid over six years, the first at May 1611.

5-6-1614: Sold by Pineas Eduwaert, hosier, to Henrick Richardt, Englishman of Sandwich, charged with a redeemable rent of six guilders five stuivers per year payable to Gillis Elsevier. Further with sixty guilders remaining from the previous sale, to be paid at twenty guilders per year, the first at May 1614. In addition, three hundred ninety guilders to be paid: eighty guilders in cash, thirty guilders each at May 1615 and 1616, and thereafter fifty guilders yearly.

13-12-1627: Sold by Henrick Richardt to Alexander Prijs, serge merchant, charged with six guilders five stuivers per year payable to Gillis Elsevier. In addition, one hundred seventy-five guilders to be paid, at thirty guilders per year, the first at May 1628.

2-6-1671: Sold by the regents of the orphanage — having taken into their house the children of Joseph Prijs, son and heir of Alexander Prijs — to Gillis de Visscher, merchant, free and clear, for one hundred seventy-five guilders in ready money.

In the margin: the cancelled rent deed of six guilders five stuivers per year was here produced on 27-8-1671.

Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden. This entry is a cadastral/property register record rather than a full notarial act; the source itself gives the sale to Alexander Prijs as 13-12-1627, not 1671.