Today, the 3rd of May in the year sixteen hundred nineteen, there appeared before me, Ewout Henricxsz. Craen, notary public, admitted by the Court of Holland upon the nomination of the city of Leiden, and before the witnesses named hereafter, Richard Teyrill, merchant, residing at Southampton in the Kingdom of Great Britain, aged about 41 years.
He has, at the request and instance of Niclaes Claverly, tobacco pipe maker, residing within the city of Leiden, upon his conscience and the salvation of his soul, in lieu of oath, testified and declared to be true that Jan Teyrill, the deponent's brother, was murdered and slain on the tenth of June sixteen hundred fourteen, in the countryside about a mile and a half English from Southampton; and that he, the deponent, has done all possible diligence and effort to come to know who might have been the perpetrator thereof, but has, from firm and undoubted signs and evidence, been assured and found that the requester bears no guilt therein whatsoever, however slight, and that he is accordingly entirely innocent thereof.
Declaring nothing further, the deponent offers, should it be necessary and should he be required to do so in case of recollement, to confirm the foregoing more fully under solemn oath before any judges, of which the requester requested one or more instruments.
Thus done within the city of Leiden, at the house of me, the notary, in the presence of Digory Pryst, hatter, and Jan Wallis, retired shoemaker, as credible witnesses required hereto together with me, the notary.
By me, Richard Tyrill. Mark set by the hand of Digory Pryst. Mark set by the hand of Jan Wallis aforesaid. E.H. Craen, notary public, subscribed, 1619.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
