We, Pieter Arentsz Deyman and Amelis van Hogeveen, aldermen in Leiden, certify that Seigneur Johan de Lalaing appeared before us. He declared for himself and his heirs that he had sold, and by this deed did sell, to Jan Robinsz, minister of the Divine Word to the English congregation in this city, Willem Jepzon, Henry Woed and Raynulph Thickins, married to Jane White, jointly and each for one lawful quarter share, 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 appearing seller himself, with a small room which he retains above the gate of the house sold; then Willem Symonsz 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 appearing 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 charge and those conditions, against every further burden or encumbrance by which it might in any way be affected, for a year and a day and thereafter in perpetuity as the law requires, under a general pledge of all his movable and immovable goods, present and future, none excepted.
The seller further acknowledged that, on account of the sale, he had been fully satisfied and paid from first penny to last by means of a mortgage deed for 8,000 guilders of forty groten each. Of that sum, 2,000 guilders was paid in cash; the remainder was to be paid at 500 guilders a year, the first instalment falling due on May Day 1612. All this was done in good faith and without fraud.
In witness, this deed was confirmed with our seals on 5 May 1611. Beneath was signed: J. van Swanenburch; sealed, etc.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
