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Keywords "B"...	Count	Record Summaries	Record Details First  -  Last
backwetering	5		1401	1465
baerlkade	1		1447
baggeren	1		1437
baljuw	9		1361	1465
baljuw of amsteland	1		1453
baljuw of rijnland	1		1426
baljuw of woerden	1		1445
banishment	5		1432	1449
bansloot	2		1356	1358
banweg	1		1472
banwerk	25		1385	1483
banwetering	1		1456
barges	5		1434	1454
barle	1		1454
barrepolder	2		1423	1454
bays	1		1469
bazeleede	1		1457
beest, dirc dircxzoon van	1		1469
begijnhof	1		1451
bennebroek	4		1436	1466
benthorn	4		1399	1451
benthuizen	24		1330	1469
benthuizerhoorn	1		1462
benthuizerwetering	2		1434	1437
berchlant	1		1384
berge, hughe van	1		1449
bertelmees coppenszoon	1		1435
bertelmees rijnszoon	1		1431
bertout heynricxzoon, schout	1		1421
billerdammer weg	1		1435
binnenkade	3		1523	1564
binnenwegsepolder	1		1450
bleiswijk	1		1450
blockhuyse	1		1429
blocklanden	1		1462
bloemendaal	1		1564
bloemenvenne, dirc van	1		1384
blois, jan die bastert van	1		1399
bloys, jan van	1		1358
boats	13		1253	1484
bode van rijnland	8		1433	1468
boden	9		1421	1474
boechorst, jan van der	56		1405	1449
boechorst, willem van der	2		1405	1406
boeskaens huys	1		1371
boevesloot	1		1449
boezemwater van zegwaard	1		1448
bolgher wout	1		1441
books	1		1463
boomen	1		1466
boomgaard	1		1421
borrowing money	1		1437
bosch janszoon	1		1441
bosch, dirc phillipszoon van	1		1457
bosch, dirc van	3		1384	1495
bosch, dirc van, bode	1		1465
bosch, pieter van	4		1437	1455
bosch, pieter van, bode	1		1473
boschuijsen, claes van	1		1443
boschuijsen, dirc van, schout	1		1564
boschuijsen, florijs van	6		1434	1469
boschuijsen, gerijt van	4		1425	1430
boschuijsen, gerijts weedwij van	1		1429
boschuijsen, jacob van, schout	1		1533
boschuijsen, tielman van	3		1429	1437
boschuijsen, willem kuser van	1		1447
boskoop	21		1330	1525
boudijn dircszoon	1		1408
boudijn janszoon	1		1363
boudwijn steens polre	1		1436
bouwen hugenzoon	1		1457
brabant, jan van	1		1371
breaching of dikes	2		1433	1437
brederode, heer van	2		1361	1451
bredeweer	1		1456
breetsloot	1		1456
bridgeheads	1		1406
bridges	54		1284	1525
brieven	1		1385
broeck	2		1528	1564
broekweg	2		1448	1455
brouckmolen	1		1528
brugelaan	1		1448
brush removal	1		1456
brushwood	1		1453
burch, hughe claeszoon van der	1		1371
burch, hughe claeszoon van dergelieden	1		1384
burchgraven conijns campe	1		1425
buren	31		1356	1533
burgermeesters	2		1441	1448
burggraaf van leiden, heynric	1		1310
burggravenveen	2		1438	1469
burmade	2		1399	1399
burning	1		1394

 

	Keyword
	backwetering
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
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
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
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
	baerlkade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.

 

	Keyword
	baggeren
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.24	Orders schout and heemraden of each ambacht to inspect all canals at appointed times to ensure they are kept clean and free to drain; to see to it that residents carry out their duties in this regard.

 

	Keyword
	baljuw
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
1400.12.28	Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.11.28	Orders Hazertswoude and Benthuizen to pay what they owe for the maintenance responsibilities they have neglected with respect to the canal by Diewer Stientgens and the bridge in the Rijndijk.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute between former and previous heemraden of Woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for some residents of Oegstgeest to dig a canal through the Hofbroek, from the sluice in the Hofdijk to the Poel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Order the baliuw of Hazerswoude to summon the opponents of keeping the Dirc Doedenwatering open to come forward with a verklaring (legal argument) of why they oppose the measure.
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
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
	baljuw of amsteland
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

 

	Keyword
	baljuw of rijnland
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.00.00	Testimony taken in inquest done at Lisse into the matter of water being allowed to drain into Rijnland because several had dug through a dune at the request of the houtvesters -- possibly to relieve flooding.

 

	Keyword
	baljuw of woerden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.20	Settlement of a dispute settlement concerning Woerden.

 

	Keyword
	banishment
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
1437.02.01	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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.11.14	Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
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
1449.05.29	Six men banned from Rijnland until they pay double the amount that the dijkgraaf put out on their behalf.

 

	Keyword
	bansloot
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.

 

	Keyword
	banweg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Jan Clais Dircxzoon to breach the banweg in the West End of Zoeterwoude, near the Hofweg, put in two bridge heads, and install a bridge deck so no one is hindered or made to pay.

 

	Keyword
	banwerk
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
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
1421.05.25	Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Instructions to inspect prescribed maintenance work in Alphen for which no one accepts resonsibility.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.04.10	Ordered the heemraden of Leiderdorp to redo the assignment of prescribed work (verhoefslagen) for the Dwarswetering because the current assignment was so out of date that no one remembered anymore what work must be done by whom.
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
1434.00.00	Permission for Walich Janszoon to carry off and use the turf that Gerijt Boenenzoon bought from him in Vriesekoop until the latter fulfills his morgengeld and prescribed maintenance work responsibilities.
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
1437.05.07	Permission to Zoetermeer to build and inspect a canal (maintain to 8 feet wide) above the Groenenwech stretching from the Clootstael westward to the wetering.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Testimony concerning land against which a lien had been placed because of prescribed maintenance work left undone.
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: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.
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
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
1453.05.08	Permission for schout and heemraad of Hazerswoude to inspect and apportion maintenance on its roads and canals 8 or 14 days after publically announcing their intent with a follow up inspection 8 days later to ensure that all required work was completed.
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
1457.05.03	Order rerouting and repair of the road (Heerweg) near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.03.01	Standardize how schouten and local heemraden are to conduct their business in Rijnland, including inspection procedures, choosing of heemraden, and compensation for expenses.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.10.05	Prohibit running of wagons on the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) that extends from the Zijdwinde to the end of Zegwaard ambacht, to be regularly inspected by the schout and kroosheemraden of Zegwaard.
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
1479.03.02	Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work along the Oude Rijn (Hoge Rijndijk).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.

 

	Keyword
	banwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.06.29	Permission for Zegwaard to use and maintain a piece of the Banwetering lying near the road in the Ruckenveen.

 

	Keyword
	barges
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.01	Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulation of boat and barge traffic in and around Spaarndam: no one may stand on the sluice in order to drag a vessel through the sluices.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
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.

 

	Keyword
	barle
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.05.07	Because turf boats have caused extensive dammage to the Barle Canal and its embankment (ran from Oude Rijn along the south side of Diewer Stienkijns to Hogeveen), boats are now prohibited from the canal.

 

	Keyword
	barrepolder
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.08.12	Ordered the removal of the sluice behind Claes Stientgens in the Dwarswetering where it flows into the Nieuwewetering and the Rijn. And the kade encircling the polder known as the Barle shall be four feet wide and two feet high above the water.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.05.07	Because turf boats have caused extensive dammage to the Barle Canal and its embankment (ran from Oude Rijn along the south side of Diewer Stienkijns to Hogeveen), boats are now prohibited from the canal.

 

	Keyword
	bays
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Because an earlier keur ordering use of a sail or cloth suspended between boats transferring sand or shells was largely ignored, resulting in the Spaarne being filled up with sand and shells, heemraden have now decided to prevent all transfer of such cargoes between ships in the Spaarne because of how seriously it affects all or Rijnland. Such transfers must be done only in bays off the side of the Spaarne at leat 2 rods away from the main channel.

 

	Keyword
	bazeleede
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	Order rerouting and repair of the road (Heerweg) near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.

 

	Keyword
	beest, dirc dircxzoon van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.10.03	Permission for Dirck Dircxzoon van Beest to encircle his land along the Gouwekade in the ambacht of Zuidwijk known as Splintersambacht (Boskoop) with a dike. Thereafter he may put a culvert or small bridge (heulkijn) through the Gouwekade to let water in and out without damage to anyone else. All damage caused must be compensated via the hoogheemraden.

 

	Keyword
	begijnhof
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
	bennebroek
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Limit peat digging close from within 50 rods of the lakes, except for Bennebroek, where the limit is 25 rods.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Prohibition of peat digging behind Heemstede, Bennebroek, with 4 dagvelds per morgen allowed between the Nieuweweg near Benebroek and Lisse. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	Revision of an old keur prohibiting digging of peat within 50 rods of the lakes (though for Bennebroek within 25 roeden). From now on anyone digging more than 4 dagvelds per morgen will pay a fine of 10 lb. per 10 dagvelds in excess. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.07.01	Because residents of Hillegom and others have continued to dig too much peat, the hoogheemraden have clarified the keur on limiting peat digging to no closer than 50 rods of the lakes (except for Bennebroek), etc. From thenceforth they may dig only 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen on their own land. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.

 

	Keyword
	benthorn
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
1435.00.00	Order residents of the 'hogen wilden veen' and Benthoorn (in Benthuizen) to accept their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or face the damming off of their drainage outlet.
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
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
	benthuizen
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
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).
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
1416.02.29	Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Order Hogeveeners to inspect and carry out maintenance on the Benhuizen canal before St. Jacobs day or Benhuizen will be ordered to block it off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Order residents of the 'hogen wilden veen' and Benthoorn (in Benthuizen) to accept their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or face the damming off of their drainage outlet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.11.28	Orders Hazertswoude and Benthuizen to pay what they owe for the maintenance responsibilities they have neglected with respect to the canal by Diewer Stientgens and the bridge in the Rijndijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Heemraden instruct the dijkgraaf to block the drainage canal and sluice at Diewer Stientgens that serves Hazerswoude and Benthuizen.
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
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Regulate maintenance of the Ghierendijk according to provisions established earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to carry out inspections from now on with 5 instead of 7 heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Decision regarding Hogeveen which had long refused to assume its responsibilities in Rijnland's common works and, as a consequence, had been threatened with having its drainage route dammed off. In February 1449 (OAR14, 38v-a) it had been delayed until Easter. Now, a group from Hogeveen has petitioned to have it further delayed while some sort of agreement is worked out. The heemraden, with this keur, agree that the damming will be put off until St. Peter's schouw (24 February 1450) if the Hogeveeners agree to pay morgengeld at the same rate as do their neighboring ambachten and also abide by peat digging regulations such as posting bond, etc.
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
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
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.01	Permission for Benthuizen to inspect and maintain roads and canals in the same manner as Hazerswoude does. Two months later, at the May schouw, this item was crossed out with the mention that from thence onward their own, old manner of schouwen is restored.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.06.30	Permission for Willem Gerijt Diemanszoon to breach the road in Benthuizen and lay a footbridge over it.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.03.12	Permission for schout and kroosheemraden of Benthuizen to decide the extent of the schouw (inspections and assignment of maintenance responsibilities) of all the canals and waterways within their ambacht and to do so in such a manner that the entire ambacht will benefit.
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
1469.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.

 

	Keyword
	benthuizerhoorn
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
	benthuizerwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Order Hogeveeners to inspect and carry out maintenance on the Benhuizen canal before St. Jacobs day or Benhuizen will be ordered to block it off.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Permission to Claes Stientgens to construct a sluice with an automatic gate (wachtdoer: opens by the force of water flowing out) in the kadijk of the Benthuizerwetering; he promised to tend it in such a manner that no one is damaged by it.

 

	Keyword
	berchlant
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
	berge, hughe van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Permission for Huge van Berge to put a huel through the Boevesloot.

 

	Keyword
	bertelmees coppenszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Inspection of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) at Waddinxveen with agreement that it meets standards.

 

	Keyword
	bertelmees rijnszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.00.00	Permission for Bertelmees Rijnszoon to put a dam through the Rijndijk (possibly to close a gap in the dike).

 

	Keyword
	bertout heynricxzoon, schout
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
	billerdammer weg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Authorization for a new canal in Vriesekoop, 12 feet wide, beginning at the Billerdammer weg and running to Heynric Jacopszoons wetering in Rijnsaterswoude.

 

	Keyword
	binnenkade
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
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
	binnenwegsepolder
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.12.17	Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	bleiswijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.12.17	Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.

 

	Keyword
	blockhuyse
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.

 

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

 

	Keyword
	bloemenvenne, dirc van
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
	blois, jan die bastert van
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.

 

	Keyword
	bloys, jan van
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.

 

	Keyword
	boats
Date	Summary	Rec details
1253.04.09	Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.01	Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulation of boat and barge traffic in and around Spaarndam: no one may stand on the sluice in order to drag a vessel through the sluices.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
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
1454.05.07	Because turf boats have caused extensive dammage to the Barle Canal and its embankment (ran from Oude Rijn along the south side of Diewer Stienkijns to Hogeveen), boats are now prohibited from the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.08	Because all of Rijnland drains via the Spaarne and the Spaarndam and boats and fish corves attached to bridges hinder water flow, henceforth it is forbidden to moor boats or attach fish corves to to the middle three spans of the Visbrug and the middle five spans of the Langebrug near the Rozenprieel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.02.24	In Haarlem, along the Spaarne, the insertion of fish corves or traps and the mooring of boats in the 3 middle spans of the Visbrug or the 5 middle spans of the Langebrug (near Rozenprieel) are prohibited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.10.04	In an attempt to regulate boat passage through the Grotesluis at Spaarndam, and to avoid damage to the sluice, the heemraden have decided that all wishing to pass through must first get a kerfstok (numbered stick) to determine their turn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Regulations for ships in vicinity of Spaarndam: anchor at least 16 rods distant; no fires on ships.

 

	Keyword
	bode van rijnland
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
1437.06.25	Pieter van Busch is ordered to seize land in Zoeterwoude
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
1451.03.02	Permission for Aelbert die Viselair to move a road behind the begijnhof in Noordwijk; neither the bode, Pieter van Bosch, nor the villagers objected.
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
1455.05.06	Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Order the heemraad's bode to go to Zegwaard to settle the matter of who is responsible for maintaining a certain canal that, according to some, is not being contributed to by the very ones who benefit the most from it.
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.

 

	Keyword
	boden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.24	Kroosheemraden of Oegstgeest issue a keur concerning how they will inspect all hydraulic works in the ambacht and stipulate how much it will cost.
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
1447.06.27	Amounts to be paid for redeeming livestock seized (schutten) because they were grazing on the Rijndijk.
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
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
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
1474.06.28	Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.

 

	Keyword
	boechorst, jan van der
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
1408.06.11	Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.
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
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1431.09.05	Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
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
1438.11.15	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
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
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
1443.02.24	Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.
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
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
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
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.08.24	Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
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
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
1448.07.04	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
1448.10.08	Decision to block the drainage from Hogeveen into the Oude Rijn because Hogeveen, even after 3 warnings, has refused accept its apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or to pay its share in the drainage costs of Rijnland.
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.

 

	Keyword
	boechorst, willem van der
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
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
	boeskaens huys
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
	boevesloot
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Permission for Huge van Berge to put a huel through the Boevesloot.

 

	Keyword
	boezemwater van zegwaard
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.

 

	Keyword
	bolgher wout
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.

 

	Keyword
	books
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.05.03	For any land changing hands in Zegwaard, the seller must notify the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard who will note the names of buyer and seller in a book which they must keep.

 

	Keyword
	boomen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.05.06	Permission for Clais van Hairlem to breach the dike in front of his house that leads to Hogeveen and to bridge the gap with two bridge heads and a bridge surface with railings so that no one will be inconvenienced.

 

	Keyword
	boomgaard
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	For Pieter Dever to put a bridge in a road in front of his orchard to be maintained to the satisfaction of the schout and heemraden of the ambacht, unspecified.

 

	Keyword
	borrowing money
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.10.01	Pieter Jacobsz. gave Jan Andriesz a note acknowledging that he owed the latter 40 sc. per year for a mortgage on some land.

 

	Keyword
	bosch janszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.

 

	Keyword
	bosch, dirc phillipszoon van
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
	bosch, dirc van
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
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
1495.06.30	Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld

 

	Keyword
	bosch, dirc van, bode
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.07.23	Report that Heijnic Claiszoon has become owner of land next to the land of Katrijn Jacob Dircxzoon in Hazerswoude which he bought from the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland for 14 plakken. It is agreed that he will have this land free of all obligations from before the day he purchased it. The middleman in this agreement was Dirck van Bossch, the heemraad's bode.

 

	Keyword
	bosch, pieter van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Pieter van Busch is ordered to seize land in Zoeterwoude
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
1451.03.02	Permission for Aelbert die Viselair to move a road behind the begijnhof in Noordwijk; neither the bode, Pieter van Bosch, nor the villagers objected.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.

 

	Keyword
	bosch, pieter van, bode
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

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, claes van
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
	boschuijsen, dirc van, schout
Date	Summary	Rec details
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, florijs van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Permission for a canal in Poelien, to be constructed by Florijs van Boschuijsen.
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
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
1469.02.28	Settlement of dispute between residents of Hogeveen concerning maintenance of the Kijfvairte. The canal must be put in order by all residing between the Westvaart and the geordineerde Oostvaart (Hazerswoude) beginning at the northern streckvaart to the fens (venen) of Florijs van Boschuijsen. All associated costs should be spread over the community members, or at least the majority of them.

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, gerijt van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	A legal announcement or declaration: whenever the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland see the need for the Woerdersluis to be repaired or reconstructed, either now or in the future, they will issue a summons to representatives from Woerden 8 days in advance to be present for the besteding (contracting out according to specifications) to forestall additional damage.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1426.00.00	Testimony taken in inquest done at Lisse into the matter of water being allowed to drain into Rijnland because several had dug through a dune at the request of the houtvesters -- possibly to relieve flooding.
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
1430.01.13	Concerning the reconstruction of the Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude. Had previously asked if anyone was willing to take on the task for a good financial reward., but no one came forward. Now, Jan Allertszoon, priest and vice curate at Spaarnwoude, with some friends, will take up the task of restoring a section of 15 roeden and 1 foot, for which the hoogheemraden agree to pay 7 nobels per roede. After thinking about it for 14 days and both secretly and publically trying to find others who might do it for less, the hoogheemraden now have agreed. Priest Jan and associates will rebuild the dike to proper specifications. The city of Haarlem offered advice and consent in this matter.

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, gerijts weedwij 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.

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, jacob van, schout
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
	boschuijsen, tielman 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
1437.ca	Testimony and a decision in a dispute between Tielman van Buschusen and the ambacht of Zoeterwoude concening whether or not Zoeterwoude had paid Tielman the amount to be collected but which was never turned over to the clerk of Rijnland. Because a credible witness sided with Zoeterwoude, so did the hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.ca	Testomony and a decision in a dispute between Tielman van Buschusen and the ambacht of Leiderdorp concening whether or not Leiderdorp had paid Tielman the amount to be collected but which was never turned over to the clerk of Rijnland. Because the witness sided with Tielman, do did the hoogheemraden, though Leiderdorp could appeal the decision with new evidence within eight days.

 

	Keyword
	boschuijsen, willem kuser van
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.

 

	Keyword
	boskoop
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1451.10.05	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
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
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
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
	boudijn dircszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1408.06.11	Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.

 

	Keyword
	boudijn janszoon
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
	boudwijn steens polre
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.

 

	Keyword
	bouwen hugenzoon
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
	brabant, jan 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
	breaching of dikes
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
1437.03.12	Ordered closing of all breaches in the Stompwijkerwech by Easter (March 31).

 

	Keyword
	brederode, heer van
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
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
	bredeweer
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
	breetsloot
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
	bridgeheads
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
	bridges
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
1406.03.07	Prohibition against constructing any bridges in any of the canals of Rijnland without permission of the dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
Date	Summary	Rec details
1410.00.00	Finding in favor of Trude Baven and Jan van Leiden and associates who hold land outside the Zijlpoort at Leiden -- they may use the bridge and canal as in the past.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	For Pieter Dever to put a bridge in a road in front of his orchard to be maintained to the satisfaction of the schout and heemraden of the ambacht, unspecified.
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
1429.00.00	Order reconstruction of the Rijndijk to its proper specivications by the St. John's inspection (i.e., Tuesday after St. John the Baptist, 24June).
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
1429.00.00	Maintenance responsibilities for the Does, Zijl, and Klein bridges
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Heynric Jacopszoon to lay a bridge in a road at Rijnsaterswoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Permission for Pieter Willem Hasen to cut a passage through a road in Waddinxveen so that he can transport his peat by water, on condition that he install a bridge over the gap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.24	Kroosheemraden of Oegstgeest issue a keur concerning how they will inspect all hydraulic works in the ambacht and stipulate how much it will cost.
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
1438.11.15	Permission for Oegstgeest to build a foot bridge over the Maarn.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.06.26	Alphen may build a bridge with two sluices across the old Kerksloot.
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
1444.03.04	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Zijlsluis and the Zijlbrug, both in bad condition, to be completed by the middle of May.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for the Friars Minor in the Waard section of Leiden to construct a bridge over the Nieuwe Rijn on the condition that the bridgeheads do not narrow the river.
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
1447.00.00	Permission for Gelbairt Pieterszoon to build two bridges, locations unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.
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	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
1448.07.04	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
1448.07.04	Permission for Ysebrant de Cuyper and associates to put a footbridge over the Vliet bij Dirck Yscax's place
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Order the schout of Voorschoten to carry out the main and followup inspections of the Lage Rijndijk within Valkenburg and Wassenaar on 18 October and 17 March, and all other inspections according to customary practice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Permission for village of Wassenaar to allow Mees Willem Hendricxzoon to build a stone bridge in the Rugelaan and keep it (collect tolls and maintain it) for 36 years, after which it and the road will be turned over to the ambacht in good condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Leiderdorp to construct a bridge over the Oude Rijn on condition that it be as high as the Zijlbrug and as wide as necessary.
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
1454.10.08	Permission for brothers of St. Heronimous in Leiden to construct a water connection to the Oude Rijn along with a bridge in the Oude Weg for better access to their monastery.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission to Willem van Leeuwen to contruct two bridge-heads in the canal behind his dwelling in Voorschoten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Prohibit placement of fish corves or traps and mooring of boats between the main gaps in the bridges in the Spaarne at Haarlem.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Permission to keep the bridge in front of the Rijnsburgerpoort (Leiden) open. The regulars of (Maridn)poel and the brothers of St. Hieronymous (Lospen, Leiden) and others who live there may maintain the drain (verlaet) at their own cost on condition that they keep it closed whenever the water in the Oude Rijn is higher than the binnenwater so that no land gets flooded.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Authorization for Dirc Hoochstraet to maintain the Lage brug (Low Bridge) in Waddinxveen with dirt and wood provided at his own expense at sufficient height for peat and other materials to be transported under it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.06.30	Permission for Willem Gerijt Diemanszoon to breach the road in Benthuizen and lay a footbridge over it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Willem van der Does to construct a stone bridge 14 feet wide in the Rijndijk, next to his house in Leiderdorp, and maintain it at his own expense.
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
1467.06.30	Dijkgraaf and heemraden concluded that the Oude Rijn, between the Heimansbrug and the Gouwesluis, probably doesn't need to be inspected by them any longer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.06.28	Permission for Zoeterwoude to breach the Ommedijk in the piece of land lying between Vranck Meeszoon and Jan Ailwijnszoon and to place a bridge in the gap on condition that they maintain it themselves.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Jan Clais Dircxzoon to breach the banweg in the West End of Zoeterwoude, near the Hofweg, put in two bridge heads, and install a bridge deck so no one is hindered or made to pay.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.06.30	Permission to Wassenaar to place a stone bridge in the Papenwech over the watering near Zandhorst Manor in the same manner as the bridge approved recently for Voorschoten (5 May 1472)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.07.20	Permission for Willem Sijmonszoon and sons to put a bridge in the Woutweg (Esselijkerwoude) so they can sail through, on condition that they maintain it themselves.
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
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
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
	brieven
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.

 

	Keyword
	broeck
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
1564.01.25	Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.

 

	Keyword
	broekweg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.

 

	Keyword
	brouckmolen
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
	brugelaan
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.

 

	Keyword
	brush removal
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.10.05	All construction, growth, and debris to be removed from the Grote sluis at Spaardam.

 

	Keyword
	brushwood
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Order removal of all 'ruichte, rysen ende dier gelijc' (brushwood, bushes, shoots, etc) that hang over or into the Oude Rijn.

 

	Keyword
	burch, hughe claeszoon van der
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
	burch, hughe claeszoon van dergelieden
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
	burchgraven conijns campe
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.ca	Permission for the heemraden of Oegstgeest to inspect from Oegstgeesterkerk to Saelmonsberch and to issue rules/bylaws concerning the Hogedijk on the Rijwech to be brought to such width and height as is best and most useful for the common good subject to customary fines. Further, they shall inspect from the Oegstgeesterkerk to the Burchgravencamp of the Old Hoeve and establish an dike in the manner above. And this shall remain in effect until the heemraden rescind it. At the same time they are given consent to place posts on the dike to prevent passage if they wish.

 

	Keyword
	buren
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
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
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
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
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
1438.05.06	General rule on keeping all ditches and canals clean.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
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
1445.10.05	Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
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
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
1450.10.06	Order the buren of Spaarndam to reconstruct the wangen (wings) of the Grote sluis on behalf of the Capel van Spaarndam so that people can ride along it, along with a turnstile that it can be closed if necessary. The capelmeesters get to collect a quarter of a stuiver for every passing car or wagon.
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Permission for village of Wassenaar to allow Mees Willem Hendricxzoon to build a stone bridge in the Rugelaan and keep it (collect tolls and maintain it) for 36 years, after which it and the road will be turned over to the ambacht in good condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Order the baliuw of Hazerswoude to summon the opponents of keeping the Dirc Doedenwatering open to come forward with a verklaring (legal argument) of why they oppose the measure.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Koudekerk and others to put culverts through the Lagenwaardse dijk to get rid of surplus water, with basic specifications for the culverts and the clapper doors to be attached.
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
1452.10.24	Permission for schout and buren of Wassenaar to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) on a canal beginning at the Papewech and extended eastwards about 100 roeden.
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
1453.05.08	Permission for schout of Katwijk to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Valkenburger Broekweg because the residents want it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.
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
1455.10.07	Permission for Hazerswoude to dig a canal 9 feet wide from the land of Mees Vranckenszoon to that of Jan Aelwijnszoon and then further along the Ommedijk. Thereafter, the schout shall inspect it like all other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.02.28	Permission for a dam in a canal, dug by residents of Stompwijk through Zoeterwoude, to be removed because of the many damaged by it, with the understanding that those damaged by its removal have the right to seek compensation.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Settlement of dispute between residents of Hogeveen concerning maintenance of the Kijfvairte. The canal must be put in order by all residing between the Westvaart and the geordineerde Oostvaart (Hazerswoude) beginning at the northern streckvaart to the fens (venen) of Florijs van Boschuijsen. All associated costs should be spread over the community members, or at least the majority of them.
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
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.

 

	Keyword
	burgermeesters
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
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.

 

	Keyword
	burggraaf van leiden, heynric
Date	Summary	Rec details
1310.12.27	Copy (partially unreadable) of an original document issued by Count Willem III as arbiter in a dispute between Hendrik, burggraaf of Leiden and the heemraden of Rijnland concerding the fishery in the Wendeldijk; after payment of 400 lb. Hollands to the burggraaf, the right to fish there or anywhere else in Rijnland's territory now belongs exclusively to the heemraden, except for the fisheries of the Zijlbrug and Marebrug.

 

	Keyword
	burggravenveen
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
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
	burmade
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.08	Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal.

 

	Keyword
	burning
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).

 

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