We, Frans Adryaenszoon van Leeuwen and Willem Govertszoon van der Aer, aldermen of Leiden, make known that there appeared before us Cornelis Gijsbertszoon van Groenendael, carpenter, who acknowledged for himself and his heirs to have sold, and hereby sold, to Willem Robintszoon, Englishman, leather worker, a newly built house and ground standing and situated within this city on the south side of the Nieuwe Straat, running along the Groenehasengracht, being part of the rear Doelen.
Bounded on one side by Willem d'Jepsin, likewise an Englishman, with a house and ground which he likewise bought from the appearer, and on the other side by the appearer himself. Running from the front on the aforesaid Nieuwe Straat to the rear at the back Doelen, subject to a redeemable ground rent of six guilders of forty groats each, free money, per year, redeemable at the rate of one-twentieth, payable to the dean and headmen of the civic guard of this city, with right of pre-emption and registration as often as the aforesaid house and ground shall come to be alienated, according to the deed thereof.
And otherwise free of any further encumbrances, save that the buyer must tolerate that the aforesaid house and ground shall specifically remain bound: first, for such purchase moneys as the appearer still owes the aforesaid dean and headmen from the purchase of the ground of this sold house; and further for a rent of eighteen guilders and fifteen stuivers, in the aforesaid free money, per year, together with the principal sum thereof, owing to Gerrit Pieterszoon van Immerseel, which the appearer retains at his own charge, and which he promised to keep the buyer free from. Also, to make the aforesaid house and ground wholly free of the aforesaid obligation and mortgage of these same charges before the last three hundred guilders of the purchase price promised by the buyer shall fall due.
Further, with the following conditions: first, if this buyer and the aforesaid Willem d'Jepsin should wish to have a rainwater cistern of ten barrels' capacity made, at a place to be designated by them both, the appearer shall bear the cost of the bricklaying work, as well as the timber and labour needed for it, and the said cistern, once so made, shall be used and maintained jointly by this buyer and the aforesaid Willem d'Jepsin.
Secondly, that the aforesaid Willem d'Jepsin shall have to allow this buyer joint use of the privy drain running beneath the house of the said Willem d'Jepsin, provided that, should this buyer cause the said drain to become blocked or fouled, he shall bear and pay the costs of repairing the same drain jointly with the aforesaid Willem d'Jepsin, half and half.
Thirdly, with such temporary conditions regarding the completion of the aforesaid house as are contained in the transfer deed. And fourthly, with such conditions and warranty as are contained in the old warranty deed thereof, the right of which the appearer hereby transferred to this buyer insofar as it concerns this sold house and ground, and the buyer shall be permitted, at his own cost, to obtain an authentic copy of that deed.
The appearer likewise promised, besides this and under the aforesaid charges and conditions, to warrant and keep the aforesaid house and ground free from any further encumbrance or claim that might have been brought upon it by him during the time of his ownership; binding generally all his goods, movable and immovable, present and future, none excepted.
Furthermore, the appearer acknowledged that he was well and fully satisfied and paid, down to the last penny, for the aforesaid sale, and that by a bond of debt for a sum of thirteen hundred guilders in the aforesaid currency, to be paid in free money, with one hundred and fifty of the said guilders in cash, and further with one hundred guilders per year — except for the last year, fifty guilders — the first payment at May sixteen hundred and eleven.
In witness whereof this deed is confirmed with our seals, on the twenty-eighth of April in the year sixteen hundred and ten. [Below was written:] J. Swanenburch, and it was sealed, etc.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.