There appeared before the undersigned aldermen of the city of Leiden, Anthony Clements, cotton weaver, aged about sixty years, Jaeques Fesy, likewise aged about sixty years, and Passchier Teunisz, serge weaver, aged about twenty-five years, all living within this city, who, having been lawfully sworn and examined under solemn oath, at the request of Jan Wytcom, likewise a cotton weaver, testified and declared it to be true that they have had good acquaintance and dealings with the aforesaid petitioner for a long time, during which time they found nothing in him but all honour and virtue, he having in his trade and conduct always behaved honestly and virtuously, without the deponents ever having heard or understood that he was rumoured or reputed to have committed any evil deeds, offences or misdeeds, still less that he had ever been apprehended for such, so that they hold him to be a man of honour and of good name and reputation. Testifying nothing further.
So truly may Almighty God help the deponents. Done the 19th of December, sixteen hundred and twenty-five.
Translation by Radicae, The Leiden Connection, from the Dutch transcription supplied by Erfgoed Leiden.
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Compareerde voor de ondergeschreven schepenen der stad Leyden Anthony Clements bombasijnwercker out omtrent lx jaren, Jaeques Fesy, mede omtrent lx jaren out, Passchier Teunisz, saeywercker, out omtrent xxv jaren, alle woonende binnen deser stede ende hebben bij solemneelen eede hem wettelicken gestaeft ende affgenomen ten versoucke van Jan Wytcom, mede bombasijnwercker , getuycht ende verclaert waerachtich te wesen dat zij aen den voornoemden requirant langen tijt goede kennisse ende ommegang hebben gehadt, geduyrende welcke voors. tijt zij aen den zelven ander niet bevonden hebben dan alle eer ende deucht als hebbende hem in zijn handel ende wandel altijt eerlicken ende vromelic hem gedragen, zonder dat zij deposanten eyt gehoort ofte verstaen hebben dat den selven met eenige quade feyten delicten of mesusen berucht off befaemt veel min daer van achterhaelt zoude zijn geweest, zulcx dat zij hem houden voor een man met eer en staende ter goeder namen ende fame. Wijders niet tugende. Zoo waerlick most hen deposanten Godt Almachtich helpen. Actum den xixen decembris xvic ende vijffentwintich.
Original source:Erfgoed Leiden · record group 0508 · call no. 79P · folio 47v
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