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Keywords "A"...	Count	Record Summaries	Record Details First  -  Last
aa	1		1442
aalsmeer	7		1423	1457
aalsmeerdersluis	2		1443	1457
aanspraak	6		1443	1457
aardhaling	37		1356	1527
aarlanderveen	2		1457	1457
absence of dijkgraaf	1		1457
abuse of officials, workers	3		1444	1447
abutments	1		1406
accident	1		1449
accountability	1		1495
accounting	23		1385	1525
achterdorpen	1		1525
achterweg	1		1444
achthoeven	1		1457
adam dirxzoon	2		1528	1533
administration	9		1400	1442
adriaen ghysbrecht	1		1458
adriaen heynricxzoon	1		1528
aechte maynairt dircxzoonsweedwij	1		1437
aelbert die viselair	1		1451
aelbert nagel, schout	1		1446
aelbrecht allertszoon	2		1441	1443
aelbrecht die mandemaker	1		1432
aelbrecht gerijtszoon	1		1450
aelbrecht, duke	13		1361	1451
aelbrechts vierendeel van bosch	1		1469
aelbrechtsberg	1		1422
aelman	2		1454	1472
aelwaerskinder	1		1431
aernt jan godenzoon	1		1451
aernt janszoon	1		1449
aernt vechterszoon	3		1431	1449
aert willemszoon, schout	1		1564
afterdijk	1		1445
afterschouwen	1		1456
aggenvoirde	1		1436
agriculture	4		1438	1455
alcmade hugenzoon, florijs van	1		1445
alcmade vranckenzoon, an van	1		1528
alcmade, florijs van	3		1452	1483
alcmade, heynric van	2		1363	1399
alcmade, willem	1		1456
alcmade, willem van	58		1429	1527
alder planting	8		1417	1455
aldermen	3		1421	1452
alfen, florijs van	1		1363
alkemade	5		1424	1458
alkemade, schout of	1		1443
alkemadersluis	3		1443	1469
allairt meeszoon	1		1462
allert ijsbrantszoon	1		1421
allert saelmoenszoon	1		1417
allijn gruiertszoon	1		1416
alphen	44		1284	1564
alphen, watergang van	1		1400
alphenerhoorn	1		1451
alphenerkade	1		1564
alphenerkruis	1		1450
alphenersluis	2		1444	1469
alphenervaert	1		1465
alphenerwetering	3		1460	1564
alvaren phillipszoon	1		1384
ambachten	1		1443
ambachtsbewaarders	41		1436	1564
ambachtsbewaarders, selection of	1		1445
ambachtsboden	1		1449
ambachtsheer	4		1442	1466
ambachtsrekeningen	1		1460
amstelveen, aldermen of	1		1452
amstelveen, schout van	1		1452
amsterdam	23		1405	1525
amsterdam city council	1		1433
amsterdam, vroedschap van	1		1433
amsterdam, willem van	1		1371
andries janszoon	1		1430
andries phillipszoon	1		1384
ansc, wouter van	1		1440
antwoord	4		1443	1457
arbitration	1		1440
arkel	1		1465
arrears	7		1417	1451
assendelft, bartout van	2		1452	1456
assessment	1		1453
assignment of responsibility	1		1417
avel pieterszoon	2		1421	1437
aven dirc soytgens	1		1384
aven jan danelszoonsweduwe	1		1457

 

	Keyword
	aa
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.10.02	Regulate the construction and maintenance of a new canal and encircling dike at Koudekerk and Oudshoorn. The new construction is to be at the expense of all of Koudekerk except for the Hooge Waard, while its upkeep will be shared by all, including the Hooge Waard. The old dike along the Heymanswetering may be sold off.

 

	Keyword
	aalsmeer
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.04.13	Ordered the village of Aalsmeer to send 100 men with the necessary boats and equipment (including hosen, graven, and forken) to close the dike breach at Spaarnwoude and bring the dike up to such strength as to prevent future flooding. They are ordered to appear on the next Sunday evening (19 April) or Monday morning (April 20) before sunrise at the breach with all their tools and equipment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Limits the peat digging of citizens of Haarlem in Aalsmeer to four dagvelds per morgen, with no one allowed to dig more than a total of 32 dagvelds. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.05.06	Procedures: order the schout of Aalsmeer to inspect the road from Burggravenveen to the Rijsdrecht and to authorize bridges for the road if needed for water transport.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission for schout of Aalsmeer to schouw the Aalsmeer road and another road that has not been overseen in four years.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.02.24	Landowners of Aalsmeer, including some residents of Haarlem, may dig no more than 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen and no more than 32 total or be fined 10 lbs. for every 10 dagvelds above the limit. This supercedes an earlier keur on this matter. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.02.24	Landowners of Aalsmeer, including some residents of Haarlem, may dig no more than 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen and no more than 32 total or be fined 10 lbs. for every 10 dagvelds above the limit. This supercedes an earlier keur on this matter. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.

 

	Keyword
	aalsmeerdersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.

 

	Keyword
	aanspraak
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.07.01	Verdict in a long-running dispute between Willem van Oestgeest and his companions and the officials of Oegstgeest concerning morgengeld, penninggeld, and more; the hoogheemraden side with the officials of Oegstgeest.
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1457.06.28	This is the verdict in a dispute between Aven Jan Bonens widow and Florijs Aelbertszoon concerning a verhoefslag (apportionment of maintenance responsibilities) for the dike at Houtrijk.

 

	Keyword
	aardhaling
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1372.00.00	Establish the amounts to be paid for dirt for dike repairs dug on the north and south side of Spaarneland respectively.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.02.22	Settlement of a dispute between Liclaes Dirc Feyen z. and Jan vander Meer over a dike in Spaarnwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.01.08	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Permission to take dirt that is closest and best for work needing to be done, and anyone who opposes this shall be dealt with as the heemraden see fit.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Order to pay for dirt according to the value established by the the heemraden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Permission to take earth for making or repairing the Heerweg in Waddinxveen that is closest to the site and will cause the least damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.06.24	Instructions concerning payments for dirt, where dirt is to be taken, and other matters related to repairing breaches in dikes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.09.26	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Zwammerdam: the Land of Woerden for one half and Rijnland for the other, with Nieuwkoop doing the earthwork.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.05.21	Settlement of a dispute concerning aardhaling for reconstruction of the Dwarsweren in Lisse: the two parties to share responsibilty equally.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.21	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.03	Heemraden order that Ghijsbrecht Jansz. be paid one white penny per roed for diking his share along the Halmeer and also for dirt.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.07.01	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.07.06	Compensation ordered to those whose land is dug up for the Zandsloot in Katwijk according to the rates established by the heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.08.31	Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.10.02	Regulate the construction and maintenance of a new canal and encircling dike at Koudekerk and Oudshoorn. The new construction is to be at the expense of all of Koudekerk except for the Hooge Waard, while its upkeep will be shared by all, including the Hooge Waard. The old dike along the Heymanswetering may be sold off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Commend Jan van Haarlem, shout of Spaarndam, for repairing (repairing the shoring, adding dirt and fencing it off) the piece of dike between the Kolksluis (Grotesluis) and his dwelling, at his own cost, but he is not to do any further building on the site.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Probit the removal of dirt set aside for raising the Spaarndam or for other hydraulic matters without indicating so to the hhraden or one of their assistants.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.10.05	Order Boskoop, Hazerswoude, Snijdelwijk, Groenswaard, and Poelien to repair the shoring below the house of Jan Vechterszoon before 1 November. From then on Jan must maintain it at his own cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Limits on how close to someone else's land individuals may dig for clay, dirt, etc., without permission of the owner of the edge or bank [sleet] of the water between Vennip and Warmond. Those found guilty must pay fines and repair damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1491.03.01	Settlement of a dispute over payment of aardgeld, place unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	aarlanderveen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.

 

	Keyword
	absence of dijkgraaf
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	If the dijkgraaf is absent from a schouw- or rechtsdag, the heemraden will appoint one of their own who is rentmeester to be dijkgraaf, and if the rentmeester also is absent, those present will cast lots to choose a dijkgraaf.

 

	Keyword
	abuse of officials, workers
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Reemphasize the prohibition against harrasment officials or workers performing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.02.28	Must not harrass officials performing their duty

 

	Keyword
	abutments
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.03.07	Prohibition against constructing any bridges in any of the canals of Rijnland without permission of the dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland

 

	Keyword
	accident
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	The hoogheemraden declare that, before 22 February 1450, Clais Dircxzoon must pay Claes Willemszoon for injuries done to the latter's son, Willem Claeszoon. The son, a skipper's helper, was injured when Clais Dircxzoon let the sluice door of the Grote sluis at Spaarndam fall while repairing the sluice.

 

	Keyword
	accountability
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

	Keyword
	accounting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1385.04.01	A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.00.00	Surviving hoogheemraden are to pay for masses for the souls of hoogheemraden who die in office.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1401.05.19	Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Dijkgraaf and heemraden have inspected the damage to and suffering of the good people of Rijnland with respect to their hydraulic works because of warfare (especially south of the Rijn and along the Goude) and they now appoint special lower heemraden in the named ambachten to oversee the reconstruction and to issue keuren, orders, and commands to that effect as necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.05.15	Settlement of a dispute between the hoogheemraden and the heirs to Gerijt van Bosschuysens concerning money that the late Gerijt, a former colleague, owed to the Hoogheemraadschap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Allow recovery of money owed on some land in Zoetermeer belonging to the widow and children of the late Aelbrecht die Mandemaker who have abandoned the land and/or are fugitives. Meynert Dirc Smeetszoon agreed to pay the sum owed and will recover his cost from the property owned by the fugitives.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Requires local, village officials to submit their accounts to the heemraden before they levy morgengeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	Permission for Leiderdorp to lease out their kadijk to three or four men who will reconstruct it as they see fit; those protected by it will pay the costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.12.20	An official of Koudekerk explains that, with consent of the village lord, the schout, the majority of residents of Koudekerk, and the heemraaden of Rijnland, he has sold a kade for the benefit of Gnephoeck (Oudshoorn) for 35 Wilhelmusschilden which money he has laid out for the construction of a new kade at Koudekerk stretching from the Lagenwaardse dike en Ofwegen (Koudekerk).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Endorsement of an earlier keur requiring submission of last year's accounts from Rijnland's ambachten to the hoogheemraden before they can order new assessments. Now is added a time period for submission and a 10 lb. fine if the accounts are not properly submitted.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.10.05	Those who collect assessments for the hoogheemraden or for village officials must turn in the amounts they are responsible for, even if is at their own expense.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reinforce earlier keuren that instruct local heemraden to justify their collections of morgen- and penninggeld by submitting accounts for inspection by the hoogheemraden, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	achterdorpen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	achterweg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp

 

	Keyword
	achthoeven
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.10.04	Permission for those of Achthoeven in Leiderdorp to construct a culvert or small bridge in a dike.

 

	Keyword
	adam dirxzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.

 

	Keyword
	administration
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.00.00	Surviving hoogheemraden are to pay for masses for the souls of hoogheemraden who die in office.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.01.09	A promisory note: heemraden owe Robbrecht Claesz. of Haarlem 172 lb. 5 sc. for food and/or drink.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1419.10.02	A promisory note: heemraden owe Willem Dobbez. 100 English nobles for which he will be repaid 10 nobles each year plus unspecified interest until the entire principal is paid.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Oath of office for the hoogheemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.06.26	Bartout van Assendelf temporarily appointed as kroosheemraad for Haarlem

 

	Keyword
	adriaen ghysbrecht
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.

 

	Keyword
	adriaen heynricxzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	aechte maynairt dircxzoonsweedwij
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.02.01	The widow of Meynert Dircszonn, Aechte, agrees to assume responsibility for land and attendant hydraulic requirements of Lijsbet Jans dochter, who abandoned her land and has fled the area.

 

	Keyword
	aelbert die viselair
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.02	Permission for Aelbert die Viselair to move a road behind the begijnhof in Noordwijk; neither the bode, Pieter van Bosch, nor the villagers objected.

 

	Keyword
	aelbert nagel, schout
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.

 

	Keyword
	aelbrecht allertszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Settlement of a dispute between Claes van Spaarnwoude and priest Jan Allairtszoon concerning lease of church property in spaarnwoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.02.24	Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.

 

	Keyword
	aelbrecht die mandemaker
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Allow recovery of money owed on some land in Zoetermeer belonging to the widow and children of the late Aelbrecht die Mandemaker who have abandoned the land and/or are fugitives. Meynert Dirc Smeetszoon agreed to pay the sum owed and will recover his cost from the property owned by the fugitives.

 

	Keyword
	aelbrecht gerijtszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).

 

	Keyword
	aelbrecht, duke
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.01.04	Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.12.21	Copy of a charter issued by Duke Aelbrecht confirming all the charters and privileges issued by his predecessors to the hoogheemraadschap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1385.04.01	A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1388.08.18	Copy of a charter issued by Duke Aelbrecht in which those within Rijnland who had previously paid morgengeld to build and/or maintain a section of a dike of the Zijpe, between Petten and Oghe, and of the Schagerdijk near Oghe, will now be free of this obligation.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1391.02.13	Settlement a of dispute between the hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the hoogheemraden of Schieland concerning payment of morgengeld by Alphen -- concerns it's share in a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that ran through a section of Schieland and drained via a sluice into the IJssel. Alphen shall pay Rijnland for the portion lying in Rijnland and Schieland for the portion lying in Schieland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.04.26	Confirmation by Duke Albrecht of an agreement between the dijkgraaf (and baljuw) and hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the free ambacht of Nieuwkoop concerning the drainage of Nieuwkoop at Spaarndam. Nieuwkoop will remain under the jurisdiction of Rijnland and may freely drain via the Spaarndam according to old practices because the old ruling concerning Nieuwkoop's earthworks at Zwammerdam remains in force.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.08.30	Establishes a new waterschap, represented by a drainage canal with construction and maintenance duties assigned to it, in the wild peatland lying between Hazerswoude and Benthorn which will drain via the Benthuizerwetering through the ambacht of Hazerswoude into the Oude Rijn; the new water board shall have the right to issue keuren, carry out inspections, apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), and levy fines as appropriate to the common good.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1401.05.19	Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Settlement of dispute between Gerijt van Heemstede, lord of Benthuizen, and Willem Bort concerning a waterway in Hogeveen that had been authorized by a charter from Duke Albrecht. Those who do not contribute their share of maintenance responsibilities shall have their drainage blocked off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.

 

	Keyword
	aelbrechts vierendeel van bosch
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.

 

	Keyword
	aelbrechtsberg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.06.24	Ordered the residents of Tetrode and Albrechtsberg to make 20 roeden (rods) of the Nieuwendijk at Spaarnwoude one roede wide and as high as the heemraden shall indicate, and they shall complete this between now and next St. Mary Magdalene day on pain of the highest fine, that is to say twice 70 lb.

 

	Keyword
	aelman
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.02.26	Permission for Gerrit Hugenszoon to dig a ditch through the seven morgens of land he holds within Benthuizen; the ditch to be wide enough for an aelmen (a flat-bottomed boat) to sail through and a footbridge to cross it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Voorschoten to put two stone bridges in the Papenwech over the canals at such height and width that an aelman (small, flat-bottomed boat) loaded with peat or wood can sail through them.

 

	Keyword
	aelwaerskinder
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.05.21	Settlement of a dispute concerning aardhaling for reconstruction of the Dwarsweren in Lisse: the two parties to share responsibilty equally.

 

	Keyword
	aernt jan godenzoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.05	An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen).

 

	Keyword
	aernt janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Six men banned from Rijnland until they pay double the amount that the dijkgraaf put out on their behalf.

 

	Keyword
	aernt vechterszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.09.05	Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Hoogheemraden agree to the transfer of the sea dike near Amsterdam, known as the Kostverloren, from the heirs of Reijnier Reijnierszoon to Pieter Willemszoon, resident of Sloterdijk. Pieter may not sell nothing up to the last sluice in Kostverloren without permission of the Hoogheemraden. The old act, from which it appeared that the dike belonged to Aernt Vechterszoon, Vechter Aerntszoon, Reyner Reynerszoon and widow Lijsbeth, is hereby cancelled.

 

	Keyword
	aert willemszoon, schout
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	afterdijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Permission for Koudekerk to sell part of an embankment to be maintained at no expense to the ambacht.

 

	Keyword
	afterschouwen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Instruct Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to treat the lijtschouw (initial inspection, in which work to be carried out is indicated) they usually hold in the summer as an afterschouw (final inspection, in which work that is not completed can be put out to contract at the expense of those who were responsible for the work) instead and to carry it out by 4 July.

 

	Keyword
	aggenvoirde
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

	Keyword
	agriculture
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for Oegstgeest to schouw on the Wednesday instead of the Tuesday after May Day because of urgency of work on the land.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for residents of Zegwaard who live along the Dwars Nieuwevaart to construct bridges over the canal so they can do their sowing and planting for 14 days beginning with St. Servaas Day [13 May] and again for 14 days in August beginning on St. Lawrence Day [10 August].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.07.01	Permission for those of Benthuizen to put bridge heads 7 feet wide at water level in the Notsloot and two new canals to allow the transfer of cows and hay.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade hugenzoon, florijs van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade vranckenzoon, an van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1528.10.22	Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade, florijs van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade, heynric van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.16	Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade, willem
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.04.06	Permission for Zoeterwoude to construct a dam in the canal that the residents of Stompwijk had made from the Brede weer on the Ommedijk because the residents of Zoeterwoude have suffered from too much water coming through the canal.

 

	Keyword
	alcmade, willem van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.05.15	Settlement of a dispute between the hoogheemraden and the heirs to Gerijt van Bosschuysens concerning money that the late Gerijt, a former colleague, owed to the Hoogheemraadschap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.08.31	Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	The stoeling (assessments, assignment of maintenance responsibilities) for Spaarnwoude shall remain as they are as long as they remain outside the territory of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.05.01	Symon Heinricxzoon and associates can disassociate themselves from Valkenburg in matters of drainage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Order Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten to repair the dike breach at Stompwijk (presumably along the Zoetermeer).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Schout of Koudekerk to announce and carry inspection of the sluices and culverts in the Hoge Rijndijk in the same manner as consented to for Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.06	Settlement of a dispute over maintenance of part of the Kostverloren dike which was completely rebuilt: a pole must not be placed in the middle where the former sluice lay; maintenance henceforth to be carried out according to the provisions of the documents issued in this matter, outside the expense of the Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.06.29	Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.02.28	Must not harrass officials performing their duty
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	The dijkgraaf had accused Willem Kuser of Boshuizen for fishing with eel traps in Rijnland. The latter claimed he did so just as the rentmeester of Noordholland did, referring to old customs. Further he claimed that he should be judged by an offical of the Court of Holland, not of the Hoogheemraadschap. After looking into the matter, the hoogheemraaden claimed jurisdiction and decided that the dijkgraaf should proceed according to old charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.10.03	Regulate responsibility for and maintenance of a dike and ditch that ran from the Rijndijk into the ambacht of Wassenaar, with warnings against breaching the dike (presumably for ease of water transport).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Prohibit riding on the Hoge Rijndijk between Katwijk and Zwammerdam (fine of 1/3 of 10 lbs.) and removing any protective poles on the dike (fine of 10 lb..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.07.04	Permission for Dirck Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to construct a huel (bridge or culvert) through the road/dike in front of his door.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Unless she repays twice the amount of money that the schout of Vriesekoop put up on her behalf, Geertruyt Geryt Goemen will be banned from Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.03.12	Permission for Jan Pieterszoon, village official of Wassenaar, and his associates to construct a 4-foot wide stone culvert or bridge in the road in Druijtswael.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad to replace one who died is made by the surviving hoogheemraden. The person chosen will pay for 32 masses at the monastery in Warmond for the soul of the one who died, as well as other expenses involved in memorializing their late colleague.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	alder planting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.02.22	Requirement: all who dig peat in Rijnland must plant alder [els] between now and Easter on two hont of every morgen they hold, without exception. The same goes for those near the lakes, and no pit may be wider than four feet [one hont = one-sixth of a morgen].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate the planting of alder [els] where turf has been mined.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Restrictions on digging peat; must be linked to alder [els] planting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	A reminder to plant alder (els) before digging peat, as specified in the charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Before digging peat, must plant alder [els].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.24	Representatives of city of Leiden, Gerijt van Oestgeest, Jan Heerman, and Willem Bort, promise to appear on Wednesday eight days hence to account for the city's actions regarding alder [els] planting, i.e., poeten or poten, a requirement before beginning to dig peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Must plant alder [els] before digging peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission to Martijn Everszoon and Wouter Hugenszoon and their associates to put a a culvert or small bridge in the Stompwijkerweg in Hofveen [i.e., Stompwijk], and thereafter they must plant alder [els] according to the keur.

 

	Keyword
	aldermen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	The seven aldermen of Spaarnwoude promise the heemraad to construct or reconstruct of the zijl or sluice at Goert Jan Florijsz. before Pentecost and to inspect and maintain all canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.05	An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.24	Because there were more breaches in the dikes near the Carthusian monastery and on the east side of the city, the hoogheemraden believed it necessary for those having authority for hydraulic mattes there to join Rijnland in common cause to close the breaches. Therefore they requested that the dijkgraaf of Rijnland, Aelbrecht van Raephorst, with the aldermen (schepenen) of Diemen and the schout and of Amstelveen (collectively the predecessors to Amstelland water board) to attend a hearing planned for 15 January 1453 at Haarlem.

 

	Keyword
	alfen, florijs van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.

 

	Keyword
	alkemade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.05.01	Establishes that the width of the Rijpwetering in the Woutambacht, stretching to Heer Jacobswoude, should be just as wide as the part that extends into the ambacht of Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for the schout of Woude [Woubrugge] to schouw in the same manner as the schout of Alkemade does, and he is given a copy of the relevant keur from the book.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.

 

	Keyword
	alkemade, schout of
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.

 

	Keyword
	alkemadersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.

 

	Keyword
	allairt meeszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.10.09	A few months earlier, permission had been granted to residents of the Blocklanden in Benthuizen to dig a new canal on the end of the Blocklanden, beginning on the Gelderswoudse canal through Allart Meeszoons dam and continuing to the road near Benthuizerhorn -- 8 feet wide, with specifications for any bridges, etc. But, because some now opposed it, two heemraden of Rijnland, Jacob van Woude and Jan van Poelgeest, went to have a look. and ordered, in the name of entire college of hoogheemraden, that Allart Meeszoon's dam be raised and provisioned with two hoofden 7 roeden feet apart at the expense of the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard, and the latter shall schouw the canal and road ditch. The old canal belonging to the Blocklanden shall be left un-schouwed.

 

	Keyword
	allert ijsbrantszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.01.08	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	allert saelmoenszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.ca	List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.

 

	Keyword
	allijn gruiertszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.01.09	Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).

 

	Keyword
	alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1284.11.13	Grant Alphen, Randenburg, Snijdelwijk; Groesnwaard, Splinters Ambacht uten Waard the right to remove the sluice gate in the Gouwesluis at the Oude Rijn in Alphen as well as other rights associated with the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1358.10.19	After negotiations, Jan of Blois, lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda restores the right of Alphen, Boskoop, Hazwerswoude, and Waddinxveen to have and maintain a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel. Apparently, he had ordered it closed at some time earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.01.04	Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.01.04	Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1391.02.13	Settlement a of dispute between the hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the hoogheemraden of Schieland concerning payment of morgengeld by Alphen -- concerns it's share in a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that ran through a section of Schieland and drained via a sluice into the IJssel. Alphen shall pay Rijnland for the portion lying in Rijnland and Schieland for the portion lying in Schieland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1401.05.19	Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1410.00.00	Authorized the local water board of Alphen east of the Gouwe to issue rules concerning the inspections they carry out and the judgments they make and to levy fines up to 3 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1415.03.19	Dispute settlement between Rijnland and Schieland concerning penninggeld collected in Alphen, Hasertswoude, Waddinxveen, and Boskoop concerning a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that drained via a sluice into the IJssel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Instructions to inspect prescribed maintenance work in Alphen for which no one accepts resonsibility.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Dijkgraaf and heemraden have inspected the damage to and suffering of the good people of Rijnland with respect to their hydraulic works because of warfare (especially south of the Rijn and along the Goude) and they now appoint special lower heemraden in the named ambachten to oversee the reconstruction and to issue keuren, orders, and commands to that effect as necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Molenaarsbrug or Heimansbrug in Alphen-Oudshoorn, split evenly between the Land of Woerden and Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Florijs van Boschuijsen declares that he has permission from the dijkgraaf and heemraden to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe. Florijs agrees to maintain it himself according to the requirements specified by the schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.10.03	A clarification that the wetering that Florijs van Boschuijsen had been authorized to restore earlier in the year is to be inspected by the schout and heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.02.25	Heemraden decide in favor of the dijkgraaf in a dispute with Alphen over the Doesschouw, unless the latter can offer additional proof.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.06.26	Alphen may build a bridge with two sluices across the old Kerksloot.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Some decisions in a long-standing dispute between the small villages along the Gouwe and Alphen concerning the maintenance of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen. It was put in order in this year as described, and it was concluded that, for the moment, this is probably the best way to continue doing it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for heemraden of Alphen to inspect the Lage dijk in a single inspection whenever they deem it necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Decision in the dispute between Alphen and the smaldorpen (small villages: Groenswaard, Boskoop, Snijdelwijk, and Randenburg) concerning the maintenance of the Gouwesluis in which Alphen is found in the wrong, in the light of a earlier finding made in 1446.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.05	An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.10.17	Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.10.17	Permission for schout and local heemraden of Alphen to order the repair and closing of kaden which often have been left to lie open during the winter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.03.20	Invitation of bids to rebuild the Gouwesluis, with specifications for the work. Claes van Schoorle took up the contract for 382 lb. (15 placken per lb.). Payment to be made on 1 November (Allerheiligendag), persumably the completion date.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	This document comes from the Hoogheemraadschap van Schieland -- gives the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) permission to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.02.23	Permission for the participants in the Watergang (canal) der Vier Ambachten (Alphen, Waddinxveen, Hazerswoude, and Boskoop) to construct windmills to pump water from their lands into the canal, which drained into the IJssel River.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.07.06	Permission for Florijs van Boshiujsen to breach the Hoge Rijndijk next to his house in Alphen and put a stone bridge into it. The stretch of water that thereby will connect with the Oude Rijn must remain closed off on the back side so that no water from the Oude Rijn is released into the interior. The heemraden will issue further directions before work actually begins.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1470.06.27	Permission to build a dike in Alphen, from the Oostkade (Hazerswoude) to the Gouwe kade, with two 'naecte sluijsen' (sluices without bridges) and a canal (Watergang der Vier Ambachten) along the dike.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.03.17	Dirc van Bosche, apparently the heemraad's assistant, acknowledged that he holds a hundred Rijnsche gulden that his late father, Pieter, also the bode, had collected on behalf of Rijnland. Apparently, he will pay back at the rate of 5 gulden per year. A note at the end says this document was replaced by another because Rijnland sold the obligation (mortgage) to Meeus Pieter Ruyscher
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.10	Consent for residents of Alphen inside the new dike (polder between the Oostkade and the Gouwekade) to put a water mill on their land with which to pump into the Oude Rijn on condition that the new dike remain closed and that no water from the Watergang der Vier Ambachten comes through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.06.28	Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1479.03.02	Order Koudekerk and Alphen to maintain Hoge Rijndijk to specifications and not allow a narrowing of the channel itself.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1523.11.10	Settlement of dispute between residents of Alphen west of the Gouwe and village officials of the south end of Waddinxveen and Coenencoop concerning the Binnenkade and the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) of the Goudkade to the Nesse, alongside the culvert.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	alphen, watergang van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.

 

	Keyword
	alphenerhoorn
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.

 

	Keyword
	alphenerkade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	alphenerkruis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).

 

	Keyword
	alphenersluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.

 

	Keyword
	alphenervaert
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenwaard to the schouw (inspect and maintain) the area canals between the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering for the benefit of the land. Along the east side of the cross canals that will connect the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering, they are to provide a lijdweg or path one rod wide.

 

	Keyword
	alphenerwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.04.20	This document comes from the Hoogheemraadschap van Schieland -- gives the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) permission to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1523.11.10	Settlement of dispute between residents of Alphen west of the Gouwe and village officials of the south end of Waddinxveen and Coenencoop concerning the Binnenkade and the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) of the Goudkade to the Nesse, alongside the culvert.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	alvaren phillipszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1384.00.00	Apparently information concerning the handling (or mishandling) of certain properties in Katwijk, Leiden, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude held in trust for the benefit of the heirs of Aven Dirc Soytgens

 

	Keyword
	ambachten
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.

 

	Keyword
	ambachtsbewaarders
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.03.04	Permission to residents of Zoetermeer to dig peat in the Groenen Erve section as long as they discharge all perform all prescribed maintenance work and pay all morgengeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: from now on, officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg may apportion prescribed maintenance work for the Spaarndam and the Doeswetering with one instead of three officials.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.02.25	Order Voorschoten to choose officials in the customary manner within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Requires local, village officials to submit their accounts to the heemraden before they levy morgengeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.12.20	An official of Koudekerk explains that, with consent of the village lord, the schout, the majority of residents of Koudekerk, and the heemraaden of Rijnland, he has sold a kade for the benefit of Gnephoeck (Oudshoorn) for 35 Wilhelmusschilden which money he has laid out for the construction of a new kade at Koudekerk stretching from the Lagenwaardse dike en Ofwegen (Koudekerk).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Reemphasize the prohibition against harrasment officials or workers performing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Specifications for reconstruction of the Kleine Zijlbrug
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.02.27	Permission for Zuidwijk [Wassenaar] to narrow the distance between bridgeheads of a bridge over the Kersch (Kaswetering?) from 10 feet to 8 feet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Hoogheemraden inform the village officials of Zegwaard that they have begun a process against the hoogheemraden of Schieland because the latter, despite the prohibitions of Rijnland as well as previous agreements, convened oversight sessions in Zegwaard (which spanned the two hoogheemraadschappen) and, as a result, the Rijnland residents of Zegwaard now refuse to pay Rijnland's assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Endorsement of an earlier keur requiring submission of last year's accounts from Rijnland's ambachten to the hoogheemraden before they can order new assessments. Now is added a time period for submission and a 10 lb. fine if the accounts are not properly submitted.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Reissuance of instructions to all ambachten of Rijnland that when choosing new officials, one should remain on board until the next time -- to ensure continuity. This seems to be a reissuance of an earlier keur from 1445.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	The hoogheemraden decided to send their assistants (dienres) to inspect the Does this time while they and village officials who had no problems to point out along the Does remained in Leiden to carry on with legal and other matters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Ordering the removal of woods along the Schinkelweg in Zegwaard to a distance of 2 rods from the road, because the shade from the woods leaves about 30 rods of the road in bad shape for parts of the year.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Prohibit schout and village officials of Noordwijk or Noordwijkerhout from contracting for hydraulic work other than their own -- to avoid conflicts of interest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Schout, kroosheemraden, and community of Benthuizen ask heemraden of Rijnland to settle a question concerning the keeping of a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) and a ditch. Schout Jan van Heemstede, village lord, gave permission for it in the past, but now much of the land near it has disappeared and the nootweg may be next. Some want to keep it, the ditch, and an 8-foot buffer because they still keep dwellings there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Schout, heemraden, and community of Benthuizen request permission for a drainage ditch to drain 500 roeden of its meadow lands. Permission was granted. 600 roeden equaled on morgen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.02.22	Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.05.04	Permission for village officials in Rijnland to report their inability to collect authorized amounts to hoogheemraden; the latter presumably will pursue delinquints.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Order the construction of a kade in Wassenaar and Voorschoten from Wassenaarsgeest to the Hoge Rijndijk along the north side of the Dodijnslaan.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for schout and village officials of Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to schouw from now on when they think best, without consulting with the villagers.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Vechter Claeszoon, official of Zoeterwoude, to breach a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) near the Zoeterwoude church on the condition that villagers are not harmed by this. Further, he may do so yearly, as necessary, presumably so that he can sail/float to his land.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.03.12	Permission for Jan Pieterszoon, village official of Wassenaar, and his associates to construct a 4-foot wide stone culvert or bridge in the road in Druijtswael.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.07.01	Verdict in a long-running dispute between Willem van Oestgeest and his companions and the officials of Oegstgeest concerning morgengeld, penninggeld, and more; the hoogheemraden side with the officials of Oegstgeest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reinforce earlier keuren that instruct local heemraden to justify their collections of morgen- and penninggeld by submitting accounts for inspection by the hoogheemraden, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.03.20	Invitation of bids to rebuild the Gouwesluis, with specifications for the work. Claes van Schoorle took up the contract for 382 lb. (15 placken per lb.). Payment to be made on 1 November (Allerheiligendag), persumably the completion date.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.03.01	Reiteration: all land that benefits from Rijnland's drainage system must pay morgengeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.05.03	Permission for an official from Schoot to collect morgengeld of the ambacht under the legal authority of the ambacht as if it had been done in the presence of the assistant to the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1523.11.10	Settlement of dispute between residents of Alphen west of the Gouwe and village officials of the south end of Waddinxveen and Coenencoop concerning the Binnenkade and the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) of the Goudkade to the Nesse, alongside the culvert.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1529.06.02	Settlement of dispute, that made its way to the Court of Holland, between the rentmeester of Rijnland and the village officials of Hazerswoude concerning maintenance requirement and monetary assessments assigned to Hazerswoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1533.03.14	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	ambachtsbewaarders, selection of
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.

 

	Keyword
	ambachtsboden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Prohibit schout and village officials of Noordwijk or Noordwijkerhout from contracting for hydraulic work other than their own -- to avoid conflicts of interest.

 

	Keyword
	ambachtsheer
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.12.20	An official of Koudekerk explains that, with consent of the village lord, the schout, the majority of residents of Koudekerk, and the heemraaden of Rijnland, he has sold a kade for the benefit of Gnephoeck (Oudshoorn) for 35 Wilhelmusschilden which money he has laid out for the construction of a new kade at Koudekerk stretching from the Lagenwaardse dike en Ofwegen (Koudekerk).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Schout, kroosheemraden, and community of Benthuizen ask heemraden of Rijnland to settle a question concerning the keeping of a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) and a ditch. Schout Jan van Heemstede, village lord, gave permission for it in the past, but now much of the land near it has disappeared and the nootweg may be next. Some want to keep it, the ditch, and an 8-foot buffer because they still keep dwellings there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.05.06	Permission for Willem van Foreest to schouw (inspect and maintain) his ambacht of Middelburg with his schout in May and again at Bamis (October 1).

 

	Keyword
	ambachtsrekeningen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reinforce earlier keuren that instruct local heemraden to justify their collections of morgen- and penninggeld by submitting accounts for inspection by the hoogheemraden, etc.

 

	Keyword
	amstelveen, aldermen of
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.24	Because there were more breaches in the dikes near the Carthusian monastery and on the east side of the city, the hoogheemraden believed it necessary for those having authority for hydraulic mattes there to join Rijnland in common cause to close the breaches. Therefore they requested that the dijkgraaf of Rijnland, Aelbrecht van Raephorst, with the aldermen (schepenen) of Diemen and the schout and of Amstelveen (collectively the predecessors to Amstelland water board) to attend a hearing planned for 15 January 1453 at Haarlem.

 

	Keyword
	amstelveen, schout van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.24	Because there were more breaches in the dikes near the Carthusian monastery and on the east side of the city, the hoogheemraden believed it necessary for those having authority for hydraulic mattes there to join Rijnland in common cause to close the breaches. Therefore they requested that the dijkgraaf of Rijnland, Aelbrecht van Raephorst, with the aldermen (schepenen) of Diemen and the schout and of Amstelveen (collectively the predecessors to Amstelland water board) to attend a hearing planned for 15 January 1453 at Haarlem.

 

	Keyword
	amsterdam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1405.11.11	Requirement of cooperation: everyone along the Hoge Zeedijk from Amsterdam to Spaarndam must help each other when any of them suffer a dike break and do so according to the requirements spelled out in specific orders.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1433.00.00	An investigation into a dispute between Rijnland and the city of Amsterdam whose merchants had breached the Overtoom (an overtocht or inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) in the Kostverloren wetering on the southwestern side of the city to facilitate the transport of some bags of wool. Both sides claimed to own the dike in question and each appealed to old charters granting them jurisdiction. In the end, the arbitrators sided with Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Decision to grant to Clais Jan Wouters z. a section of the embankment on his land at Kostverloren stretching to the Halverwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.08.31	Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	No schouw of the Hoge Zeedijk or Spaandammerdijk because of disorder in Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.06.05	Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Hoogheemraden agree to the transfer of the sea dike near Amsterdam, known as the Kostverloren, from the heirs of Reijnier Reijnierszoon to Pieter Willemszoon, resident of Sloterdijk. Pieter may not sell nothing up to the last sluice in Kostverloren without permission of the Hoogheemraden. The old act, from which it appeared that the dike belonged to Aernt Vechterszoon, Vechter Aerntszoon, Reyner Reynerszoon and widow Lijsbeth, is hereby cancelled.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.11.21	Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	In the presence of the representatives of the villages between Amsterdam and Spaarndam, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dikes along the Spaarndammerdijk, with the costs to be spread over the affected villages in proportion to their areas.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Residents of all villages along the Spaarndammerdijk, between Spaarndam and Amsterdam, must appear at the dike on 8 February to have their prescribed maintenance work in closing the dike breaks assigned to them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission to the Carthusians of Amsterdam to close a breach in the dike near their monastery with dirt from their own lands without help from others. By agreement of the ambachten, the Carthusians are exempt this time from having to contribute to dike work elsewhere. No legal precedent (recht) will be established in this decision.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.05.06	Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.10.06	Permission for Pieter Willemszoon to sell his interest in the Kostverloren dike and invest the proceeds in else of similar value. A new letter to that effect will be issued by Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All residents between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are ordered to appear at their sections of the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) on 8 January to receive their assignments in dike repair and remain there until dismissed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1479.03.02	Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work on the Hogendijk (Hoge Zeedijk; Spaarndammerdijk) between Amsterdam and Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1525.09.14	Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

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	amsterdam city council
Date	Summary	Rec details
1433.00.00	An investigation into a dispute between Rijnland and the city of Amsterdam whose merchants had breached the Overtoom (an overtocht or inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) in the Kostverloren wetering on the southwestern side of the city to facilitate the transport of some bags of wool. Both sides claimed to own the dike in question and each appealed to old charters granting them jurisdiction. In the end, the arbitrators sided with Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	amsterdam, vroedschap van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1433.00.00	An investigation into a dispute between Rijnland and the city of Amsterdam whose merchants had breached the Overtoom (an overtocht or inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) in the Kostverloren wetering on the southwestern side of the city to facilitate the transport of some bags of wool. Both sides claimed to own the dike in question and each appealed to old charters granting them jurisdiction. In the end, the arbitrators sided with Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	amsterdam, willem van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1371.11.13	A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.

 

	Keyword
	andries janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.07	Authorization for Spaarnwoude to build a sluis with associated canal through the dike (Hoge Zeedijk or Spaarndammerdijk) at Hofambacht with various stipulations, including a ban on fishing and a requirement that it be used only to discharge water and not to allow it in from outside.

 

	Keyword
	andries phillipszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1384.00.00	Apparently information concerning the handling (or mishandling) of certain properties in Katwijk, Leiden, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude held in trust for the benefit of the heirs of Aven Dirc Soytgens

 

	Keyword
	ansc, wouter van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Permission for Dirc Smitszoon, Wouter van Ansc, Willem Matijszoon and others from Jacobswoude to construct a bay or inlet with a bridge through the road near Woude Manor (hofstede) with a place to launch their boats.

 

	Keyword
	antwoord
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.02.25	Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.06.28	This is the verdict in a dispute between Aven Jan Bonens widow and Florijs Aelbertszoon concerning a verhoefslag (apportionment of maintenance responsibilities) for the dike at Houtrijk.

 

	Keyword
	arbitration
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.08.31	Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.

 

	Keyword
	arkel
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.10.09	Simon Vrederick van Zwieten, droosaart of the land of Arkel and bailiuw of the land of Voorne, a member of the hoogheemraadschap since 1446, resigns, citing duties he owes the lord of Charlerois (i.e., Charles the Bold or Karel de Stoute).

 

	Keyword
	arrears
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.ca	List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	When officials seize land to recover unpaid morgengeld assessments, but the seized land is worth less than the amounts owed, they may seize other kinds of property as well.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Allow recovery of money owed on some land in Zoetermeer belonging to the widow and children of the late Aelbrecht die Mandemaker who have abandoned the land and/or are fugitives. Meynert Dirc Smeetszoon agreed to pay the sum owed and will recover his cost from the property owned by the fugitives.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.03.23	Order the dijkgraaf to seize property in Hogeveen to compensate for arrears in payment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	All land in Rijnland, regardless of quality, falls under the jurisdiction of dijkrecht as is written in another document, here appended
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	All whose lands drain with Rijnland through the Spaarndam, but have not yet paid their part, must make an appearance to receive their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), acknowledged in writting, or face having their drainage blocked -- all according to the charters of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.05.04	Permission for village officials in Rijnland to report their inability to collect authorized amounts to hoogheemraden; the latter presumably will pursue delinquints.

 

	Keyword
	assendelft, bartout van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.10	Permission for Bartout van Assendelft of Hillegom to move a road in front of his house.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Order the old Breetsloot, a ditch or canal somewhere around Haarlem, be restored to its old use and condition.

 

	Keyword
	assessment
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	In the presence of the representatives of the villages between Amsterdam and Spaarndam, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dikes along the Spaarndammerdijk, with the costs to be spread over the affected villages in proportion to their areas.

 

	Keyword
	assignment of responsibility
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.03.05	After taking much testimony, settlement of a dispute concerning Gerijt Zoegevoets dike in Osdorp: Gerijt only owned a house and hofstede along the dike which he sold to Gerijt Claes Louwerijszoon. The latter now be responsible for the dike in question.

 

	Keyword
	avel pieterszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Decision to grant to Clais Jan Wouters z. a section of the embankment on his land at Kostverloren stretching to the Halverwetering

 

	Keyword
	aven dirc soytgens
Date	Summary	Rec details
1384.00.00	Apparently information concerning the handling (or mishandling) of certain properties in Katwijk, Leiden, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude held in trust for the benefit of the heirs of Aven Dirc Soytgens

 

	Keyword
	aven jan danelszoonsweduwe
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.06.28	This is the verdict in a dispute between Aven Jan Bonens widow and Florijs Aelbertszoon concerning a verhoefslag (apportionment of maintenance responsibilities) for the dike at Houtrijk.

 

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