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gangbrugge 1 Keyword Summaries 1461
garbrant claeszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1449
gardens 1 Keyword Summaries 1456
gebint 3 Keyword Summaries 1446 1472
geerlant hugenzoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1437
geertruyt geryt goemen 1 Keyword Summaries 1449
geertruyt jan florijszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1430
geese 1 Keyword Summaries 1456
geest 2 Keyword Summaries 1450 1455
geest, jan van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1429
gelbairt pieterszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1447
gelderswoude 1 Keyword Summaries 1448
gelderswouderbrug 1 Keyword Summaries 1455
gelderswouderwatering 1 Keyword Summaries 1462
gemeen ambocht 1 Keyword Summaries 1455
gemeen watering 1 Keyword Summaries 1528
gerijt albout 2 Keyword Summaries 1417 1431
gerijt boenenzoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1434
gerijt boeyen 1 Keyword Summaries 1439
gerijt bouwenszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1529
gerijt bruynen 1 Keyword Summaries 1477
gerijt claes louwerijszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1417
gerijt doe 1 Keyword Summaries 1417
gerijt hugenzoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1454
gerijt lam 1 Keyword Summaries 1384
gerijt mathijszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1371
gerijt outsierszoons 1 Keyword Summaries 1450
gerijt phillipszoonsdochter 1 Keyword Summaries 1371
gerijt pieterszoon 2 Keyword Summaries 1371 1384
gerijt symonszoon 2 Keyword Summaries 1451 1471
gerijt vechterszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1472
gerijt voppenzoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1361
gerijt willemszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1400
gerijt wouterszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1469
gerijt zeverijtszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1371
gerijt zeverincszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1371
gerijt zoegevoets 1 Keyword Summaries 1417
gertruden liclaesdochter 1 Keyword Summaries 1417
gertuid janskinderen 1 Keyword Summaries 1384
gerus claeszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1473
gheer 2 Keyword Summaries 1447 1447
ghijs pieter butterman 1 Keyword Summaries 1564
ghijsbrecht gerijt claiszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1528
ghijsbrecht janszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1437
ghijstgen claeszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1450
ghijstgen, surveyor 1 Keyword Summaries 1450
gijsten 1 Keyword Summaries 1450
gnephoek 2 Keyword Summaries 1442 1473
goert jan florijszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1421
gouda 4 Keyword Summaries 1358 1528
gouwe 10 Keyword Summaries 1284 1528
gouwekade 6 Keyword Summaries 1465 1564
gouwesluis 12 Keyword Summaries 1284 1525
govert pieters 1 Keyword Summaries 1474
graft, alijt dircsdochter vander 1 Keyword Summaries 1384
graft, dirc van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1371
grafweydinge 1 Keyword Summaries 1527
grazing 10 Keyword Summaries 1429 1474
griete willem rijchotszoons wijff 1 Keyword Summaries 1431
groenendijck 1 Keyword Summaries 1457
groenenerve 1 Keyword Summaries 1436
groenenweg 3 Keyword Summaries 1361 1437
groenswaard 15 Keyword Summaries 1284 1525
grotemeer 1 Keyword Summaries 1457
grotesloot 1 Keyword Summaries 1483
grotesluis 8 Keyword Summaries 1358 1456
guardian 1 Keyword Summaries 1429

 

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gangbrugge
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1461.06.30Permission for Willem Gerijt Diemanszoon to breach the road in Benthuizen and lay a footbridge over it.
 

 

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garbrant claeszoon
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1449.05.29Six men banned from Rijnland until they pay double the amount that the dijkgraaf put out on their behalf.
 

 

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gardens
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1456.05.04Order that the shoring along the Spaarne near the Rozenprieel that was ordered to be pulled in (i.e., moved back to widen channel) must be completed by 24 August.
 

 

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gebint
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1446.10.04Some 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.
 
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1453.05.08Order construction of a protective door in front of all the sluices at Spaarndam, that can be raised and lowered with a block and tackle, to protect the sluices from damage by waves.
 
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1472.03.03Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
 

 

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geerlant hugenzoon
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1437.02.01The 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.
 

 

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geertruyt geryt goemen
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1449.05.29Unless 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.
 

 

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geertruyt jan florijszoon
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1430.01.07Authorization 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.
 

 

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geese
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1456.05.04Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land.
 

 

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geest
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1450.06.30Permission for Rijnsburg and Oegstgeest to use their geest (sandy coastal ridges) in the same manner as do Lisse, Voorhout, and Sassenheim, i.e., removing sand to uncover peat underneath.
 
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1455.05.06Concerning the grazing of livestock on the geest (sandy coastal ridges) in Oegsgeest: livestock found grazing on land other than one's own will be confiscated against payment (schutten).
 

 

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geest, jan van der
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1429.05.15Settlement 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.
 

 

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gelbairt pieterszoon
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1447.00.00Permission for Gelbairt Pieterszoon to build two bridges, locations unspecified.
 

 

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gelderswoude
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1448.10.08Permission 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.
 

 

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gelderswouderbrug
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1455.05.06Permission 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.
 

 

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gelderswouderwatering
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1462.10.09A 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.
 

 

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gemeen ambocht
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1455.10.07Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.
 

 

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gemeen watering
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1528.10.22Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
 

 

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gerijt albout
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1417.caList of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 
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1431.05.21Settlement of a dispute concerning aardhaling for reconstruction of the Dwarsweren in Lisse: the two parties to share responsibilty equally.
 

 

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gerijt boenenzoon
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1434.00.00Permission 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.
 

 

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gerijt boeyen
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1439.07.06Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 

 

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gerijt bouwenszoon
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1529.06.02Settlement 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.
 

 

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gerijt bruynen
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1477.12.29Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
 

 

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gerijt claes louwerijszoon
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1417.03.05After taking much testimony, settlement of a dispute concerning Gerijt Zoegevoets dike in Osdorp: Gerijt only owned a house and hofstede along the dike which he sold to Gerijt Claes Louwerijszoon. The latter now be responsible for the dike in question.
 

 

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gerijt doe
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1417.caList of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

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gerijt hugenzoon
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1454.02.26Permission 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.
 

 

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gerijt lam
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1384.00.00Apparently 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
 

 

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gerijt mathijszoon
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 

 

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gerijt outsierszoons
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1450.05.05Order 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.
 

 

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gerijt phillipszoonsdochter
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 

 

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gerijt pieterszoon
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 
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1384.00.00Apparently 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
 

 

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gerijt symonszoon
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1451.03.05An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen).
 
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1471.05.07Permission for Gerijt Sijmonszoon to put a heule (small bridge or culvert) in the Lage Rijndijk at Leiderdorp on the condition that he keeps his land enclosed so no one suffers from the opening in the dike.
 

 

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gerijt vechterszoon
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1472.03.03Permission for Jan Aelwiunszoon and Gerijt Vechterszoon to place a huel (small bridge or culvert) through the road that runs from the church to the Noordaa in Zoeterwoude. The two are responsible for its maintenance and no one must be damaged by it.
 

 

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gerijt voppenzoon
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1361.01.04Certified 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.
 

 

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gerijt willemszoon
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1400.06.24Authorized Gerijt Willemsz. of Leiden to construct an embankment alongside the wetering large enough to accomodate the construction needed as part of maintenance.
 

 

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

 

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gerijt zeverijtszoon
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 

 

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gerijt zeverincszoon
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 

 

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

 

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gertruden liclaesdochter
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1417.caList of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

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gertuid janskinderen
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1384.00.00Apparently 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
 

 

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gerus claeszoon
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1473.03.17Dirc 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
 

 

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gheer
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1447.00.00Regulate maintenance of the Ghierendijk according to provisions established earlier.
 
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1447.00.00Creation 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.
 

 

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ghijs pieter butterman
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1564.01.25Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.
 

 

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ghijsbrecht gerijt claiszoon
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1528.10.22Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
 

 

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ghijsbrecht janszoon
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1437.09.03Heemraden order that Ghijsbrecht Jansz. be paid one white penny per roed for diking his share along the Halmeer and also for dirt.
 

 

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ghijstgen claeszoon
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1450.05.05Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).
 

 

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ghijstgen, surveyor
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1450.06.30Settlement 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.
 

 

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gijsten
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1450.12.17Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.
 

 

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gnephoek
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1442.12.20An 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).
 
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1473.03.17Dirc 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
 

 

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goert jan florijszoon
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1421.05.25The seven aldermen of Spaarnwoude promise the heemraad to construct or reconstruct of the zijl or sluice at Goert Jan Florijsz. before Pentecost and to inspect and maintain all canals.
 

 

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gouda
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1358.10.19After 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.
 
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1399.03.16Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.
 
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1450.06.30Settlement 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.
 
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1528.10.22Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
 

 

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gouwe
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1284.11.13Grant 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.
 
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1356.04.18Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
 
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1410.00.00Authorized the local water board of Alphen east of the Gouwe to issue rules concerning the inspections they carry out and the judgments they make and to levy fines up to 3 lb.
 
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1415.03.19Dispute 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.
 
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1446.06.28Take 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
 
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1453.10.17Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
 
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1470.06.27Permission to build a dike in Alphen, from the Oostkade (Hazerswoude) to the Gouwe kade, with two 'naecte sluijsen' (sluices without bridges) and a canal (Watergang der Vier Ambachten) along the dike.
 
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1523.11.10Settlement 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.
 
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1525.09.14Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 
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1528.10.22Settlement of dispute between Waddinxveen, Broek, Tuylnesse and Korterakkeren vs. Coenencoop over building of windmills and horse mills in Coenencoop.
 

 

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gouwekade
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1465.10.08Permission to Jan die Backer encircle his land on the Gouwekade in Randenburg with an embankment (omme bekade) and to put a small bridge or culvert (huelkijn) through the Gouwekade to bring water into his land. If anyone is damaged by this, Jan die Backer must compensate via the hoogheemraden.
 
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1469.10.03Permission 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.
 
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1470.06.27Permission to build a dike in Alphen, from the Oostkade (Hazerswoude) to the Gouwe kade, with two 'naecte sluijsen' (sluices without bridges) and a canal (Watergang der Vier Ambachten) along the dike.
 
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1523.11.10Settlement 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.
 
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1533.03.14Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.
 
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1564.01.25Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.
 

 

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gouwesluis
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1284.11.13Grant 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.
 
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1356.04.18Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
 
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1358.10.19After 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.
 
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1361.01.04Certified 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.
 
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1434.00.00How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
 
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1446.02.27Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
 
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1446.06.28Take 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
 
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1446.10.04Some 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.
 
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1448.06.25Decision 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.
 
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1460.03.20Invitation of bids to rebuild the Gouwesluis, with specifications for the work. Claes van Schoorle took up the contract for 382 lb. (15 placken per lb.). Payment to be made on 1 November (Allerheiligendag), persumably the completion date.
 
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1467.06.30Dijkgraaf and heemraden concluded that the Oude Rijn, between the Heimansbrug and the Gouwesluis, probably doesn't need to be inspected by them any longer.
 
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1525.09.14Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 

 

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1474.06.28Permission for Govert Pieterszoon at Spaarndam to build a new house on the place where three very small houses had been burned down on condition that space for an alley (steeg) remains between the new house and existing house.
 

 

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graft, alijt dircsdochter vander
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1384.00.00Apparently 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
 

 

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graft, dirc van der
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1371.11.13A list of certain incomes attached to lands and buildings perhaps in the neighborhood of Voorschoten and Valkenburg.
 

 

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grafweydinge
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1527.03.16Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.
 

 

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1429.00.00Order the seizure of livestock grazing on dikes (schutten) with the warning that attempts to circumvent such seizures will be pursued legally.
 
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1447.06.27Amounts to be paid for redeeming livestock seized (schutten) because they were grazing on the Rijndijk.
 
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1449.06.05Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
 
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1452.05.02Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael.
 
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1452.05.02Permission for Oegstgeest to graze the three local access roads (lijtwegen) each year for benefit of the church.
 
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1453.10.17Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
 
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1456.05.04Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land.
 
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1460.05.06Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
 
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1472.03.10In Oegstgeest, sheep may be grazed only on land that one owns or leases.
 
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1474.06.28Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.
 

 

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griete willem rijchotszoons wijff
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1431.00.00List of individuals banished in 1431
 

 

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groenendijck
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1457.05.03Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 

 

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groenenerve
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1436.03.04Permission 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.
 

 

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groenenweg
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1361.01.04Certified 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.
 
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1436.03.04Permission 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.
 
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1437.05.07Permission to Zoetermeer to build and inspect a canal (maintain to 8 feet wide) above the Groenenwech stretching from the Clootstael westward to the wetering.
 

 

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1284.11.13Grant 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.
 
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1330.07.12Requirement 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.
 
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1422.00.00Dijkgraaf 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.
 
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1440.04.01Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
 
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1444.03.17Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
 
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1446.06.28Take 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
 
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1446.10.04Some 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.
 
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1448.06.25Decision 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.
 
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1450.06.30Settlement 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.
 
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1451.10.05Order 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.
 
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1457.03.01Permission for the smaldorpen (small villages: Groenswaard, Boskoop, Snijdelwijk, and Randenburg) to collapse their two schouwen into one to be held whenever deemed necessary, as long as it was announced in all the churches 14 days in advance.
 
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1465.07.23Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
 
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1465.07.23Permission 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.
 
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1469.05.02Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
 
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1525.09.14Settlement of a dispute between the achterdorpen that drain into the IJssel and the commons of Rijnland over payment of levies and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 

 

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grotemeer
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1457.05.03Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 

 

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1483.07.15Authorize 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.
 

 

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1358.10.19After 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.
 
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1441.10.03Order the repair of the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) at the grote slius at Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
 
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1449.11.18Everyone responsible for maintaining the Spaarndam between the Grotesluis and the Velserdijk must make it as high as it is in front of Dirc Havicxzoon's place within 14 days.
 
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1449.11.18The hoogheemraden declare that, before 22 February 1450, Clais Dircxzoon must pay Claes Willemszoon for injuries done to the latter's son, Willem Claeszoon. The son, a skipper's helper, was injured when Clais Dircxzoon let the sluice door of the Grote sluis at Spaarndam fall while repairing the sluice.
 
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1450.10.06Order 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.
 
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1456.10.05All construction, growth, and debris to be removed from the Grote sluis at Spaardam.
 

 

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1429.05.15Settlement 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.
 

 

 

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William H. TeBrake
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