Complete English translationAppeared before the undersigned aldermen Seigneur Johan de Lalaing as seller, and Jan Robintszoon, minister of the Divine Word to the English congregation in this city, Willem Jepson, Henry Wood and Jane White, unmarried, assisted in this matter by Seigneur Niclaes de Witte, jeweller, as her chosen guardian, jointly and each for one lawful quarter share as buyers. They acknowledged to one another that they had sold and purchased a house and yard, with a yard lying to its west, standing within this city on the south side of the Pieterskerkhof near the Clockhuys, long known as De Groene Poort.
On the eastern side it adjoins, first, the seller himself, with a certain small room above the gate of the house sold, which room the seller retains; then Willem Symonszoon van der Wilde; and then the buildings of the Commandery. On the western side it adjoins, first, the widow and heirs of Huych van Alckemade; then the seller himself; then the Donkere Gracht, lying west of the aforesaid side yard; and then the Faliede Begijnhof. It extends from the street of the aforesaid churchyard at the front to the Faliede Begijnhof at the rear.
The sale comprises the house as it is now built, arranged, used and inhabited, together with everything in it and everything fixed to the ground or nailed in place belonging to the seller, subject to an annual ground rent of eleven stuivers and twelve penningen, with feudal dues, belonging to the lord of Poelgeest. The seller promised to indemnify and warrant the house and yard, subject to that rent, against every further charge or encumbrance by which it might in any way be burdened, for a year and a day and thereafter in perpetuity as the law requires, under a general pledge of all his goods.
For the house and yard, in addition to the aforesaid rent, the buyers acknowledged that they owed 8,000 guilders of forty groten each. They promised to pay this sum free of all charges, including the tenth penny and the costs of the deeds, as follows: on the coming May Day of 1611, when they take possession of the house and yard, 2,000 guilders in cash; and thereafter 500 guilders on each successive May Day until the full sum of 8,000 guilders has been paid. The house and yard remain specially pledged for this debt.
The four buyers made themselves jointly liable, each for the others, as sureties for payment and as principal debtors, renouncing the legal benefits of division and prior execution, whose force and effect they declared they fully understood. Jane White also renounced the benefit of the Senatus Consultum Velleianum. The buyers promised to indemnify one another for their respective quarter shares, under the same pledge as above.
Lastly, it was stipulated that the buyers must allow the house to remain let for one further year after the coming May, at a rent of 228 guilders, which rent shall benefit the buyers. The seller promised to place in their hands the rental agreement made for that purpose, so that they may rely upon it with all the rights granted to them by the civil ordinances of this city.
Done on 27 January 1611. Frans Adriaenszoon; C. Baersdorp.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden. The XML metadata dates this record ten days earlier than the date stated in the abstract and transcription; the page therefore displays the month without a day.