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| lakes
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| 1417.02.22 | Requirement: all who dig peat in Rijnland must plant alder [els] between now and Easter on two hont of every morgen they hold, without exception. The same goes for those near the lakes, and no pit may be wider than four feet [one hont = one-sixth of a morgen]. |  |
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| 1436.00.00 | Limit peat digging close from within 50 rods of the lakes, except for Bennebroek, where the limit is 25 rods. |  |
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| 1436.02.28 | Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen). |  |
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| 1437.09.16 | Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar. |  |
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| 1440.06.28 | Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc. |  |
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| 1444.02.24 | Forgive some of the penninggeld due from Riedwijk and Nieuwerkerk because of the losses they have suffered from flooding by the lakes [Haarlemmermeer]. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1447.06.27 | Permission for Sassenheim to assign maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) for the the dike that extends from the east side of the windmill toward the lakes. |  |
| Date | Summary | Rec details |
| 1464.06.27 | Limit peat digging in Sloten and Ostdorp to no closer than 100 rods from the lakes and 500 rods from the dike. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1471.10.08 | Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc. |  |
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| 1480.05.09 | Permission for kerkmeesters of Hillegom to dig a ditch 6 feet with through their land that lies along the lake. |  |
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| 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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| 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. |  |
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| 1449.11.18 | Permission for the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard to inspect the the section of the new canal built by Rotterdammers that runs through Zegwaard between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and Eggertsland. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1469.09.28 | Copy of a charter from Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland concerning the need to prosecute those digging peat too closely to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) . The heemraden should not allow digging within 4 roeden; an old charter set at least a buffer of 10 roeden which must be maintained and the landscheiding itself is to be 10 feet wide. |  |
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| 1470.02.27 | Hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning unauthorized peat digging, too close to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other), by residents of Waddinxveen, with a brief review of what has happened so far, going back to when Jan van Rietvelt was dijkgraaf (1467-1469). |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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 |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1400.06.24 | Authorized 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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| 1406.06.10 | Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1432.00.00 | Permission for Leiderdorp to raise the road near Leiden |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1437.09.24 | Representatives of city of Leiden, Gerijt van Oestgeest, Jan Heerman, and Willem Bort, promise to appear on Wednesday eight days hence to account for the city's actions regarding alder [els] planting, i.e., poeten or poten, a requirement before beginning to dig peat. |  |
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| 1443.02.24 | Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents. |  |
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| 1443.03.13 | Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1448.02.27 | Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement. |  |
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| 1448.05.06 | For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1450.05.05 | Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water). |  |
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| 1451.03.05 | An act by Jan van Noorde and Heinric Paedsenszoon, magistrates (schepenen) of Leiden, recording the sale by Adriaen van der Mye of 6 morgens of land in Alphen to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland, with mention of nearest neighbors (belengingen). |  |
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| 1453.06.26 | All orchards and enclosures must be removed from within 6 feet of the water's edge along both sides of the Oude Rijn by the Friday after St. Bartholomew's (31 August). |  |
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| 1453.06.26 | Order removal of all 'ruichte, rysen ende dier gelijc' (brushwood, bushes, shoots, etc) that hang over or into the Oude Rijn. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1459.05.08 | Order an inspection of the Mare between the edge of Leiden and Warmond on the first Wednesday after Saint Martin's translatio (8 July) and the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen). |  |
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| 1460.02.26 | Order the restoration of the Rijndijk along both banks to be maintained at minimally 18 roede feet wide, and all plantings that have impinged on this width must be removed. Reiteration of earlier orders. |  |
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| 1460.02.26 | Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden. |  |
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| 1477.12.29 | Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there. |  |
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| 1399.03.08 | Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal. |  |
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| 1399.03.08 | Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal. |  |
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| 1403.10.08 | Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1429.00.00 | Maintenance responsibilities for the Does, Zijl, and Klein bridges |  |
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| 1432.00.00 | Permission for Leiderdorp to raise the road near Leiden |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1444.03.17 | Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam |  |
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| 1444.10.10 | Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp |  |
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| 1445.05.04 | Permission for Koudekerk to sell part of an embankment to be maintained at no expense to the ambacht. |  |
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| 1446.02.22 | Leiderdorp must obey the rules and regulation established by the old keuren |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1457.10.04 | Permission for Leiderdorp to construct a kade around the polder land known as the Kerckbou according to the ordinances and cedulen that the heemraden previously issued. |  |
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| 1457.10.04 | Permission for those of Achthoeven in Leiderdorp to construct a culvert or small bridge in a dike. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1462.07.06 | Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude |  |
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| 1469.05.02 | Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb. |  |
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| 1471.05.07 | Permission 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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| 1408.06.11 | Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft. |  |
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| 1412.00.00 | Reaffirmation of an arbitration of 1408 concerning a canal named the Delft over which Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout were in dispute with Lisse. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1431.05.21 | Settlement of a dispute concerning aardhaling for reconstruction of the Dwarsweren in Lisse: the two parties to share responsibilty equally. |  |
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| 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. |  |
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| 1436.02.28 | Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen). |  |
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| 1436.02.28 | Regulates how those within Lisse should pay morgen morgensgelijk just as if they all had emerged from wilderness. |  |
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| 1450.06.30 | Permission 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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| 1458.03.14 | Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter. |  |
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| 1471.10.08 | Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc. |  |
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| 1482.07.02 | Permission for heemraden of Hillegom and Lisse, who now schouw (inspect and maintain) at their own cost to henceforth do three annual schouws and in return receive 1 lb. per schouw -- on 10 July 1498 this apparently was amended to four shouwen per year. |  |
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| 1417.05.03 | Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike. |  |
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| 1429.00.00 | Order 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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| 1447.06.27 | Amounts to be paid for redeeming livestock seized (schutten) because they were grazing on the Rijndijk. |  |
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| 1449.06.05 | Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten). |  |
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| 1452.05.02 | Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael. |  |
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| 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). |  |
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| 1455.05.06 | Concerning 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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| 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. |  |
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| 1455.07.01 | Verdict in a long-running dispute between Willem van Oestgeest and his companions and the officials of Oegstgeest concerning morgengeld, penninggeld, and more; the hoogheemraden side with the officials of Oegstgeest. |  |
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| 1456.05.04 | Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land. |  |
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| 1460.05.06 | Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order. |  |
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| 1472.03.10 | In Oegstgeest, sheep may be grazed only on land that one owns or leases. |  |
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| 1474.06.28 | Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc. |  |