Anthony Clements

Editorial note: the abstract above names Rose Lisle as the bride’s witness, but the transcription itself reads “Proce Jennings” — a different name. It is unclear whether this is a transcription slip for Rose Lisle, a reference to a different, not-yet-catalogued person, or something else. The translation below follows the transcription as supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.

Registered the 18th of December 1620: Steven Traes, serge-worker, bachelor from England, accompanied by Anthony Clemens, his acquaintance, with Tryfoce Le, spinster likewise from England, accompanied by Proce Jennings, her acquaintance.

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

There appeared before the undersigned aldermen of the city of Leiden, Anthony Clements, cotton weaver, aged about sixty years, Jaeques Fesy, likewise aged about sixty years, and Passchier Teunisz, serge weaver, aged about twenty-five years, all living within this city, who, having been lawfully sworn and examined under solemn oath, at the request of Jan Wytcom, likewise a cotton weaver, testified and declared it to be true that they have had good acquaintance and dealings with the aforesaid petitioner for a long time, during which time they found nothing in him but all honour and virtue, he having in his trade and conduct always behaved honestly and virtuously, without the deponents ever having heard or understood that he was rumoured or reputed to have committed any evil deeds, offences or misdeeds, still less that he had ever been apprehended for such, so that they hold him to be a man of honour and of good name and reputation. Testifying nothing further.

So truly may Almighty God help the deponents. Done the 19th of December, sixteen hundred and twenty-five.

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

Recorded on the 5th of March 1627. Antony Clemens, cotton-weaver (bombazine worker) from England, living in Marendorp, widower of Janneken Jansdr., accompanied by Quiring Jansz Stienevelt, his acquaintance there, with Clara Rogiers, widow of Jan Jansz, likewise living on the Haarlemmerstraat, accompanied by Marijtgen Jans, her acquaintance there.

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

Registered on the 19th of May in the year 1629. Passchier Anthonis, bachelor, from Amsterdam, living on the Haarlemstraat, accompanied by Anthoni Clements, his father, with Jannetgen Jansdr, spinster, from England, living on the Haarlemstraat, accompanied by Claertgen Rosyers, her future mother.

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