There appeared before the undersigned aldermen Cornelis Ghijsbertszoon van Groenendael, carpenter, as seller, and Robbert Coetsman, wool comber, as buyer. And they acknowledged, each to the other, to have sold and bought a newly built house and grounds standing and situated within this city in a certain common alley and passage issuing on the south side of the Nonnensteeg, through which aforesaid alley and passage this buyer shall likewise have free entry and exit, with the understanding that Giellis Elsevier is entitled to the ownership of the said alley itself, so as to bring through it whomsoever it shall please him.
Bounded on the one side, to the north, by Mahieu van der Mersch, baker, in the place of Claes Lybaert, with a party sidewall and a shared lead gutter situated thereon, and on the other side, to the south, by a certain common cross-passage running underneath, extending from the aforesaid alley in front to the rear, with a party gable against the house of Jan Pieterszoon, joiner — all as the aforesaid house is presently built and constructed — subject to the charge of a redeemable rent of five guilders in free money per year, which the appearer Giellis Elsevier shall begin to bear, at the buyer's expense, from All Saints' Day 1611, together with the taking possession of the aforesaid house.
Otherwise free of any further charges, except that the buyer shall have to allow that the aforesaid house shall remain specially bound for three ground-rents together with the timber, one of four guilders, 17 schellingen, 12 penningen per year, and the other two, each of fifteen stuivers per year, which must be borne by Giellis Elsevier as a charge upon his house and grounds. And further with such conditions and warranty as are contained in the old title-deed thereof, which the seller and buyer promised to transfer, with all the right and claim thereto.
The seller likewise promised, moreover, subject to and under the aforesaid charges and conditions, to free and warrant the aforesaid house and grounds against any further encumbrance or claim that might have been brought upon it by him, under the general obligation of all his goods.
For which house and grounds the buyer, over and above the ground-rent and the aforesaid rent of five guilders per year, acknowledged himself indebted in the sum of seven hundred and eighty guilders of forty groten the piece, which he promised to pay in free money in every respect, and likewise to bear the cost of the tax of the fortieth penny, together with the writing and sealing of both the title-deed and the bond of debt in this matter — namely, two hundred of the aforesaid guilders in ready money upon taking possession of the house; item, at May Day 1612, one hundred guilders; and thereafter yearly, at each following May Day, sixty guilders, continuing so until full payment, the house and grounds remaining specially bound therefor.
And Ritsaert Meesterssoon, likewise a wool comber, also appearing, put himself forward as surety and principal debtor for the buyer, renouncing the benefit of order, of which he declared himself fully informed; whereupon the buyer promised to indemnify his surety. Done the 19th of October in the year 1611. Jesper van Banchem. J. van Brouchoven.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
