On this day, the 3rd of September in the year 1619, there appeared before me, Ewout Henricxzoon Craen, notary public, admitted by the Court of Holland upon the nomination of the city of Leiden, and the witnesses named below, Jan Wallis, old-shoemaker [cobbler], living within the city of Leiden, about 37 years old. And he has, at the request and instance of Niclaes Claverly, tobacco-pipe maker, living within the aforesaid city, testified and declared upon his conscience and men's truth, in place of an oath, to be true, that last winter, a year ago, he the deponent was present and there when the requesting party, who had then just returned from High Germany, went to the house of Claes Omaer on the Uiterstegracht within Leiden, where the requesting party had a room rented, intending to use and inhabit the said room. But this was prevented by the aforesaid Claes Omaer and his father, who made the requesting party leave the house and refused to let his goods and tools follow him, all this with great violence and unseemliness, such that it appeared they would have cut or stabbed the requesting party, had he the deponent not been present there. Nevertheless the aforesaid Claes Omaer and his father called the requesting party a thief and a murderer, adding that they would send for the bailiff and have the requesting party locked up at once, so that the requesting party was compelled to rent another dwelling from Digory Pryst, hatter, on the Levendaal in Leiden.
Declaring nothing further, he the deponent offered to confirm the foregoing more fully under solemn oath, should it be necessary and required in case of recolement, of which the requesting party requested one or more instruments. Thus done within Leiden at the house of me, the notary, in the presence of Pieter Joostenszoon Warmont and Cornelis Dircxzoon, scriveners, as trustworthy witnesses required hereto together with me, the notary.
[Signed:] Mark set by the hand of the aforesaid Jan Wallis. P.J. Warmont, 1619. C. Dircxzoon. E.H. Craen, notary public, subscribed, 1619.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
