There appeared before the undersigned aldermen William d'Jepsin, Englishman, as seller, and William Mintas, likewise an Englishman, as buyer. And they acknowledged, mutually and reciprocally, to have sold and bought a house and grounds standing and situated within this city on the south side of the Groenhazengracht, bounded on the one side by Jacob Fredericxszoon, timber merchant, and on the other side by Willem Robintszoon, leather-dresser, likewise an Englishman, running from the street of the aforesaid canal at the front to the rear as far as the back of the Doelen (the archery grounds), all just as the aforesaid house presently stands built and made, and as it is used and inhabited.
This is subject, first, to a ground rent of six guilders of forty groot each, in free money, per year, redeemable at the rate of the twentieth penny, payable to the deacons and captains of the civic guard of this city, with right of pre-emption and registration as often as the aforesaid house and grounds shall come to be alienated, according to the deed of issue thereof. This rent, chargeable to the buyer, shall begin to run on May Day of this year sixteen hundred and thirteen, together with the taking possession of the aforesaid house and grounds.
And further, with a sum of eight hundred and fifty guilders in the same coin, owed once, from the previous buyer of the aforesaid house and grounds, payable to Jacob Corneliszoon de Haes as having the right and transfer from Cornelis Gijsbertszoon, carpenter, likewise in free money, in instalments of one hundred guilders a year, the first term of which, chargeable to the buyer, shall fall due on May Day of the year sixteen hundred and fourteen.
And further subject to the conditions, stipulations and warranty contained in the old deed of warranty thereof, which the seller promised to transfer and hand over to the buyer, together with all rights thereto. And he promised, besides, to free and warrant the aforesaid house and grounds, under the aforesaid charges, conditions and stipulations, against any further encumbrance or claim with which it might have been burdened by him, under the general obligation of all his goods.
For which aforesaid house and grounds the buyer, over and above the aforesaid charges, acknowledged himself indebted to the seller in a sum of three hundred guilders of forty groot each, which he promised to pay entirely in free money — likewise of the excise of the fortieth penny, together with the fee for the writing and sealing of the deed of transfer — on May Day aforesaid of this year sixteen hundred and thirteen, together with the taking possession of the aforesaid house and grounds, in ready money, the aforesaid house and grounds remaining specially bound as security therefor; and the parties released one another from providing further warranty or surety. Done the… [the original document breaks off here; the date is not given].
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
