On the 7th of August 1620 appear before the aldermen of Leiden Joos Coert, cobbler, 36 years old, and Willem de Coning, baize weaver, 34 years old, both resident in Leiden.
There appeared before the undersigned aldermen of the city of Leiden, Joos Coert, old shoemaker, aged about 36 years, and Willem de Coning, baize weaver, aged about 34 years, both living within this city, and they, having been duly sworn and examined under solemn oath, at the request of Marijtgen Willemsdochter, widow of Samuel Singeltom, testified and declared it to be true that they the deponents well know that the aforesaid Samuel Singeltom, the late husband of the aforesaid requester, departed this world about two months ago.
Both giving as their reason for knowledge that they the deponents (the aforesaid Coert having been a countryman of the aforesaid Singeltom, and the aforesaid de Coning having lived near him and kept good acquaintance and company with him during his, Singeltom's, lifetime) also attended his burial. Declaring nothing further, so truly might God Almighty help them the appearers. Done the seventh of August in the year sixteen hundred and twenty. J. van Gooten, 1620. A. van Teroede.
In the margin: done, paid six stuivers.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden. Note: the transcription itself dates this act to 7 August 1620 ('sevende Augusti anno XVIc ende twintich'), which does not match the record's stated date label of 7 August 1620 or its title's '7th of August 1620' — this discrepancy is in the source material, not introduced by the translator.
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Compareerden voor den ondergeschreven schepenen der stadt Leyden, Joos Coert out schoemaecker out omtrent XXXVI jaeren, ende Willem de Coning baeywercker out omtrent XXXIIII jaren beyde wonende binnen deser stede, ende hebben bij solemnelen eede hen wettelicken gestaeft ende affgenomen ten versoucke van Marijtgen Willemsdochter wedue van Samuel Singeltom, getuycht ende verclaert warachtich te wesen, dat zij deposanten wel weten dat den voornoemde Samuel Singeltom, des voorseyde requirantes geweesde man, omtrent den tijt van twee maenden geleden deser werelt overleden es. Gevende beyde voor redenen van wetenschap, dat zij deposanten (als sijnde de voornoemde Coert een lantsman van de voorseyde Singeltom geweest, ende de voorseyde de Coning, omtrent de selve gewoont ende goede kennisse ende ommegang, in sijne Singeltoms leven met hem gehouden hebbende) ter begravenisse van de selve mede gegaen hebben. Wijders niet verclaerende zoo waerlick most hen comparanten Godt almachtich helpen. Actum den sevende Augusti a(nno) XVIc ende twintich J. van Gooten 1620 A. van. Teroede In de marge: Gedaen betaelt VI stuivers
Original source:Erfgoed Leiden · record group 0508 · call no. 79N · folio 115v
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