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Keywords "R"...	Count	Record Summaries	Record Details First  -  Last
rabbit warren	1		1425
raephorst gevers	1		1451
raephorst, adriaen van	2		1430	1434
raephorst, aelbrecht van, dijkgraaf	1		1452
raephorst, ghijsbrecht van	1		1495
randenburg	11		1284	1525
raphorst, bertolomeus van	1		1392
raphorst, gijsbrecht van	1		1482
rechtsdag	1		1457
reclamation	1		1399
reconstruction	71		1406	1527
recording in books	10		1421	1463
regulation of windmills	2		1460	1460
regulations	21		1421	1484
reguliers	1		1478
reimbursement	3		1453	1477
removal of sluice	3		1284	1446
renen jorijswege	1		1523
rentmeester	4		1429	1529
rentmeester van noordholland	1		1447
rentmeester van rijnland	1		1525
repairs	62		1372	1527
repliek	3		1443	1457
required work	1		1421
resignation	2		1448	1465
restoration	6		1417	1447
retirement of heemraad	1		1448
rewards for informing	1		1473
reyner brunt	1		1528
reyner claeszoon	1		1440
reyner dever	6		1363	1408
reyner reynerszoon	3		1437	1449
reyner, grote	1		1443
rietvelt, jan van, dijkgraaf	1		1470
rietwijk	8		1443	1469
rietwijker newenwech	1		1392
rietwijker sluis	1		1458
rietwijkersluis	1		1469
right of way	2		1436	1438
rijn	30		1284	1479
rijn bank	2		1453	1453
rijndijk	34		1330	1525
rijndijk, fences on	1		1460
rijnsaterswoude	5		1432	1443
rijnsburg	1		1450
rijnsburg, abbess of	1		1361
rijnsburg, abbey of	1		1525
rijnsburg, rentmeester of	1		1441
rijnsburger poort	1		1456
rijpwetering	1		1424
rijsdrecht	1		1438
rijshout	1		1453
rijswijk, jacob van	1		1445
riot	2		1445	1445
rival jurisdiction	1		1444
roads	44		1421	1527
robbrecht claeszoon	1		1415
rodenburgerlaen	1		1384
roesdorp	1		1457
rombout inpers	1		1371
rotterdammers	1		1449
rotting of flax	2		1435	1453
rotting of hemp	3		1435	1453
rozenprieel	4		1441	1456
ruckenveen	1		1456
rugelaan	2		1448	1451
rules	3		1441	1484
rutger pieterszoon	1		1469
ruus jacopszoon	1		1421
ruuys jacobszoon	2		1433	1437
ruven, claes van	1		1419
rynnegom, hofstede van	1		1461
rynnegommer wateringe	1		1461

 

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

 

	Keyword
	raephorst, adriaen van
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
1434.06.29	Permission for Noordwijk to close the Zwet with a dam as they did in the past.

 

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

 

	Keyword
	raephorst, ghijsbrecht van
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
	randenburg
Date	Summary	Rec details
1284.11.13	Grant Alphen, Randenburg, Snijdelwijk; Groesnwaard, Splinters Ambacht uten Waard the right to remove the sluice gate in the Gouwesluis at the Oude Rijn in Alphen as well as other rights associated with the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Some decisions in a long-standing dispute between the small villages along the Gouwe and Alphen concerning the maintenance of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen. It was put in order in this year as described, and it was concluded that, for the moment, this is probably the best way to continue doing it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1457.03.01	Permission 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.
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
1465.10.08	Permission 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.
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
	raphorst, bertolomeus van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1392.07.11	Limits on peat digging: dig no more than two days worth of peat on either the west or east side of the road between Riedwijker Nuwenwech and Kercklaen; no digging within 40 roeden of the Haarlemmermeer; no transport of peat outside the ambacht of Nieuwerkerk.

 

	Keyword
	raphorst, gijsbrecht van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.06.16	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gijsbrecht van Raphorst, in place of Dirc Boudijnszoon van Zwieten.

 

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

 

	Keyword
	reclamation
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
	reconstruction
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
1417.08.12	Authorization for a culvert with a sluis or gate (scotdoer) to go under the Delft (a canal) so that the peatland between Hillegommerbeek and the Delft can drain into the low peatland. The water above, in the Delft, shall run unhindered toward the Haarlemmermeer, while the culvert underneath shall remain open between sinte Bertijns misse and sinte Pieters misse afterwhich it shall be closed. Similarly each year on 8 May the culvert gate will stand open as well as other times of the year, as long as no one else is damaged by it. And the scout and heemraden of Lisse shall inspect the new dike on the north side of the Delft and the waterschap of the Delft with the new culvert, with those in the peatland benefitting from the culvert bearing the costs of maintenance. Further, the Hillegommerweg which runs along the beek up to the woods (in the dunes?) shall remain closed (i.e., the embankment on which the path lies shall not be breached) so that external water will not flow onto the peatland in question. And the three bridges over the Lisserbeek which belong to Noorwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout shall be removed and not rebuilt as long as that is best for the larger generality. For all of this, the peatlands shall pay morgengeld just like all the other lands of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Permission to take dirt that is closest and best for work needing to be done, and anyone who opposes this shall be dealt with as the heemraden see fit.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.06.24	Ordered the residents of Tetrode and Albrechtsberg to make 20 roeden (rods) of the Nieuwendijk at Spaarnwoude one roede wide and as high as the heemraden shall indicate, and they shall complete this between now and next St. Mary Magdalene day on pain of the highest fine, that is to say twice 70 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.04.13	Ordered the village of Aalsmeer to send 100 men with the necessary boats and equipment (including hosen, graven, and forken) to close the dike breach at Spaarnwoude and bring the dike up to such strength as to prevent future flooding. They are ordered to appear on the next Sunday evening (19 April) or Monday morning (April 20) before sunrise at the breach with all their tools and equipment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.12.09	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk be widened by a foot at the top and two feet at the base. In addition, the entire length is to be raised by a foot above the current highest parts and all breaches filled to full dimensions as stipulated. The work is to be done before the next Christmas eve, and all are to be at work on the next Tuesday. Failure to comply to be subject to a fine of 10 lb. And the dams that lie in front of the sluices are to be enlarged to one foot higher than the sluice doors themselves.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	Ordered Hofambocht to reconstruct the road that runs from Heynric Baertsz. buitendijks onto the Nieuwendijk as wide as necessary so that it can accomodate wagons with a good load, and it shall be as high as the outer edg of the Nieuwendijk and shall be completed by 24 June (sinte Jans dach te midsomer).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.06.24	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk should lie two feet from the bank or the Rijn. It should be nine feet wide at the base and six feet on top, and rise to seven feet above the water. The work must be completed before August 15 (Assumptio S. Marie) and be inspected two days later.
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 Zwammerdam: the Land of Woerden for one half and Rijnland for the other, with Nieuwkoop doing the earthwork.
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
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
1432.00.00	Permission for Leiderdorp to raise the road near Leiden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Heimansbrug.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	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
1441.10.03	Order the repair of the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) at the grote slius at Spaarndam.
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
1443.05.19	Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
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	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
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
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Order repair/reconstruction of the Schinkeldijk to same height as the dike at Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Specifications for reconstruction of the Kleine Zijlbrug
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	Commend Jan van Haarlem, shout of Spaarndam, for repairing (repairing the shoring, adding dirt and fencing it off) the piece of dike between the Kolksluis (Grotesluis) and his dwelling, at his own cost, but he is not to do any further building on the site.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	Some decisions in a long-standing dispute between the small villages along the Gouwe and Alphen concerning the maintenance of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen. It was put in order in this year as described, and it was concluded that, for the moment, this is probably the best way to continue doing it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Order the Kerksloot near Haarlem to be restored to one roede wide and as deep as is thought necessary.
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
1449.11.18	Probit the removal of dirt set aside for raising the Spaarndam or for other hydraulic matters without indicating so to the hhraden or one of their assistants.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	In the presence of the representatives of the villages between Amsterdam and Spaarndam, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dikes along the Spaarndammerdijk, with the costs to be spread over the affected villages in proportion to their areas.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Residents of all villages along the Spaarndammerdijk, between Spaarndam and Amsterdam, must appear at the dike on 8 February to have their prescribed maintenance work in closing the dike breaks assigned to them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission to the Carthusians of Amsterdam to close a breach in the dike near their monastery with dirt from their own lands without help from others. By agreement of the ambachten, the Carthusians are exempt this time from having to contribute to dike work elsewhere. No legal precedent (recht) will be established in this decision.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission for Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, because of their remote location and difficulty for others to get there, to close the waal at Houtrijk by themselves, without the others usually responsible for maintenance there. Sloten and Osdorp allowed the same for walen in their territories. They must not stop work until it is competed. Because it will be difficult for the poor to meet their obligations, the hoogheemraden have generously give 70 gulden (of 10 plaken-worth), half to go to Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, and half to Sloten and Osdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Order 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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.10.17	Permission for schout and local heemraden of Alphen to order the repair and closing of kaden which often have been left to lie open during the winter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Order the old Breetsloot, a ditch or canal somewhere around Haarlem, be restored to its old use and condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.03.17	Invitation for contracts with specifications for the rebuilding of the Aalsmeer [Hazerswoude, Sassenheim, and Randenburg] sluice and the Noordwijk [Aarlanderveen, Zegwaard, and Zoetermeer] sluis. The final section, describing how some work was not done to specification on the Aalsmeer sluice may actually date to the required completion, St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). See also next item which seems to approve of the work order for the Noordwijk sluice.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
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
1457.05.03	Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Offer a contract for repairs to the Riedwijk and Nieuwerkerk sluice. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl agreed to do the work, to be completed by St. Bartholmew's day (25 August).
Date	Summary	Rec details
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	Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.
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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
1460.03.20	Invitation of bids to rebuild the Gouwesluis, with specifications for the work. Claes van Schoorle took up the contract for 382 lb. (15 placken per lb.). Payment to be made on 1 November (Allerheiligendag), persumably the completion date.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.03.03	Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.06.28	Permission 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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All residents between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are ordered to appear at their sections of the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) on 8 January to receive their assignments in dike repair and remain there until dismissed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	To close the walen, one man will appear for every 20 made of land, and every two men with a schuit, and each shall be properly equipped with spades, barrows, etc. as is necessary. The date to appear is 8 January.
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1477.12.29	Because the hoogheemraden realize that the poor will have greatest difficulty in performing the repair work needed to close all walen, the former will help pay for excessive costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All expenses that hoogheemraden incur while closing the walen in the Zeedijk will be distributed across the entire territory of Rijnland.
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
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	recording in books
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Requirement that anyone having an overvaart or wagon path over the hoge rijndijk should make it twice as high as the dike itself.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	No one can have wagen path over another's dike without permission; with permission, nevertheless responsible for all damage
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.03.04	Permission to residents of Zoetermeer to dig peat in the Groenen Erve section as long as they discharge all perform all prescribed maintenance work and pay all morgengeld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
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	Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Koudekerk to schouw the entire ambacht from now on in the same manner as was approved for Hazerswoude in the past (1438).
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
	regulation of windmills
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Because of the damage that they can do to low-lying lands, windmills may be established only with the consent of the hoogheemraden, and all windmills already in place must be stopped until approved.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.05.06	Permission for Zegwaard to pump with windmills into the Schieland drainage level even though the windmills were located in Rijnland territory where windmill use was limited by Rijnland's regulations.

 

	Keyword
	regulations
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate how morgengeld is to be levied along the Scafgaende weren in Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
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
1443.06.29	Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	Officials in Heer Jacobswoude, Leimuiden, Rijnsaterswoude, and Vriesekoop shall announce and carry out their inspections in the same manner as specified for Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.10.05	Confirm a decision that from now on hoogheemraden must attend all meetings or be assessed (from their compensation from the penninggeld) 6 lbs. per missed meeting unless they are ill or have had to travel to outside of Holland, Zeeland, or Friesland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	From now on, anyone who charges someone else falsely before the hoogheemraad shall pay all costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.10.05	Those who collect assessments for the hoogheemraden or for village officials must turn in the amounts they are responsible for, even if is at their own expense.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	If the dijkgraaf is absent from a schouw- or rechtsdag, the heemraden will appoint one of their own who is rentmeester to be dijkgraaf, and if the rentmeester also is absent, those present will cast lots to choose a dijkgraaf.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Because of the damage that they can do to low-lying lands, windmills may be established only with the consent of the hoogheemraden, and all windmills already in place must be stopped until approved.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reinforce earlier keuren that instruct local heemraden to justify their collections of morgen- and penninggeld by submitting accounts for inspection by the hoogheemraden, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.05.06	Permission for Zegwaard to pump with windmills into the Schieland drainage level even though the windmills were located in Rijnland territory where windmill use was limited by Rijnland's regulations.
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
1463.03.01	Reiteration: all land that benefits from Rijnland's drainage system must pay morgengeld
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1463.10.04	Henceforth, the transferring of sand or shells from small to large ships in the Spaarne, between the Spaarndam and the beginning of the Spaarne in Heemstede, must be done with the help of a sail or linen cloth suspended between the two ships to prevent the materials from falling into the river and eventually hindering flow.
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
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
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Those summoning witnesses for matters before the heemraad must pay witnesses' expenses when they lose their cases.

 

	Keyword
	reguliers
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.06.30	The hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning compensation for dirt requisitioned for dike maintenance (aardhaling) and acknowledge that value of the land played a role in the amouts set. A list of individuals and amounts of aardgeld paid follows.

 

	Keyword
	reimbursement
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Because the hoogheemraden realize that the poor will have greatest difficulty in performing the repair work needed to close all walen, the former will help pay for excessive costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All expenses that hoogheemraden incur while closing the walen in the Zeedijk will be distributed across the entire territory of Rijnland.

 

	Keyword
	removal of sluice
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
1446.06.28	Permission for Hazerswoude to eliminate a sluice in the Oostkade on the Hoge Rijndijk for lack of need.
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

 

	Keyword
	renen jorijswege
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.

 

	Keyword
	rentmeester
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.05.15	Settlement of a dispute between the hoogheemraden and the heirs to Gerijt van Bosschuysens concerning money that the late Gerijt, a former colleague, owed to the Hoogheemraadschap.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.ca	List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	If the dijkgraaf is absent from a schouw- or rechtsdag, the heemraden will appoint one of their own who is rentmeester to be dijkgraaf, and if the rentmeester also is absent, those present will cast lots to choose a dijkgraaf.
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.

 

	Keyword
	rentmeester van noordholland
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
	rentmeester van rijnland
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
	repairs
Date	Summary	Rec details
1372.00.00	Establish the amounts to be paid for dirt for dike repairs dug on the north and south side of Spaarneland respectively.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.02.22	Requirement: all who dig peat in Rijnland must plant alder [els] between now and Easter on two hont of every morgen they hold, without exception. The same goes for those near the lakes, and no pit may be wider than four feet [one hont = one-sixth of a morgen].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate the planting of alder [els] where turf has been mined.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Restrictions on digging peat; must be linked to alder [els] planting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Permission to take dirt that is closest and best for work needing to be done, and anyone who opposes this shall be dealt with as the heemraden see fit.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.06.24	Ordered the residents of Tetrode and Albrechtsberg to make 20 roeden (rods) of the Nieuwendijk at Spaarnwoude one roede wide and as high as the heemraden shall indicate, and they shall complete this between now and next St. Mary Magdalene day on pain of the highest fine, that is to say twice 70 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.04.13	Ordered the village of Aalsmeer to send 100 men with the necessary boats and equipment (including hosen, graven, and forken) to close the dike breach at Spaarnwoude and bring the dike up to such strength as to prevent future flooding. They are ordered to appear on the next Sunday evening (19 April) or Monday morning (April 20) before sunrise at the breach with all their tools and equipment.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.12.09	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk be widened by a foot at the top and two feet at the base. In addition, the entire length is to be raised by a foot above the current highest parts and all breaches filled to full dimensions as stipulated. The work is to be done before the next Christmas eve, and all are to be at work on the next Tuesday. Failure to comply to be subject to a fine of 10 lb. And the dams that lie in front of the sluices are to be enlarged to one foot higher than the sluice doors themselves.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	Ordered Hofambocht to reconstruct the road that runs from Heynric Baertsz. buitendijks onto the Nieuwendijk as wide as necessary so that it can accomodate wagons with a good load, and it shall be as high as the outer edg of the Nieuwendijk and shall be completed by 24 June (sinte Jans dach te midsomer).
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
1425.06.24	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk should lie two feet from the bank or the Rijn. It should be nine feet wide at the base and six feet on top, and rise to seven feet above the water. The work must be completed before August 15 (Assumptio S. Marie) and be inspected two days later.
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 agreement between Rijnland and Aernt Vechtersz. by which the latter assumes responsibility for maintenance for a portion of the the Spaarndammerdijk near Amsterdam, called Kostverloren, while Rijnland compensates him by giving him a portion of the kade by Kostverloren as a possession.
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
1431.09.05	Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.05.00	Testimony in a dispute taken by heemraad Meynert Claeszoon concerning the priest Jan Allertsz. of Spaarnwoude who was charged with using more land for the church than he was authorized to use. In early 1430, priest Jan and associates had agreed to rebuild the badly damaged Kerkendijk at Spaarnwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Before digging peat, must plant alder [els].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	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
1441.10.03	Order the repair of the overtocht (inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) at the grote slius at Spaarndam.
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
1444.03.17	Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Order repair/reconstruction of the Schinkeldijk to same height as the dike at Koudekerk.
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	Commend Jan van Haarlem, shout of Spaarndam, for repairing (repairing the shoring, adding dirt and fencing it off) the piece of dike between the Kolksluis (Grotesluis) and his dwelling, at his own cost, but he is not to do any further building on the site.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.27	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Regulate maintenance of the Ghierendijk according to provisions established earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Must plant alder [els] before digging peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Order the Kerksloot near Haarlem to be restored to one roede wide and as deep as is thought necessary.
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
1449.11.18	Everyone 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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	In the presence of the representatives of the villages between Amsterdam and Spaarndam, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dikes along the Spaarndammerdijk, with the costs to be spread over the affected villages in proportion to their areas.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	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
1453.01.15	Permission for Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, because of their remote location and difficulty for others to get there, to close the waal at Houtrijk by themselves, without the others usually responsible for maintenance there. Sloten and Osdorp allowed the same for walen in their territories. They must not stop work until it is competed. Because it will be difficult for the poor to meet their obligations, the hoogheemraden have generously give 70 gulden (of 10 plaken-worth), half to go to Spaarnwoude, Hofambacht, and Houtrijk, and half to Sloten and Osdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Hoogheemraden decide that Willem van Alcmade and Jan van Poelgeest will keep an accounting of all the expenses incurred in the repair and reconstruction of the Zeedijk. Later, these costs will be spread proportionally over all of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Order 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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.10.17	Permission for schout and local heemraden of Alphen to order the repair and closing of kaden which often have been left to lie open during the winter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Order the old Breetsloot, a ditch or canal somewhere around Haarlem, be restored to its old use and condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
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
1457.05.03	Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.08.25	Hoogheemraden approve the reconstruction work done to the Noordwijk sluice at Spaarndam according to the specifications and contract issued on 17 March of this year.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Offer a contract for repairs to the Riedwijk and Nieuwerkerk sluice. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl agreed to do the work, to be completed by St. Bartholmew's day (25 August).
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.
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
1460.03.20	Invitation of bids to rebuild the Gouwesluis, with specifications for the work. Claes van Schoorle took up the contract for 382 lb. (15 placken per lb.). Payment to be made on 1 November (Allerheiligendag), persumably the completion date.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Invitation for bids to repair the Haarlemmersluis (Koudekerk, 'sBurchgravenveen, Heer Dirks Ambacht van Zuidwijk, Middelburch, Benthuizen, and Valkenburg) with specifications for the work. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl took on the work for 719 lb., with Pieter Dirxzoon and Jan Gerijtszoon standing surety for him.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.03.03	Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.06.28	Permission 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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Request that Amsterdam, Diemen, and Weesp consult with Rijnland on possibilities for coordinated action against dike breaks both north and east of Amsterdam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All residents between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are ordered to appear at their sections of the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) on 8 January to receive their assignments in dike repair and remain there until dismissed.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	To close the walen, one man will appear for every 20 made of land, and every two men with a schuit, and each shall be properly equipped with spades, barrows, etc. as is necessary. The date to appear is 8 January.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	Because the hoogheemraden realize that the poor will have greatest difficulty in performing the repair work needed to close all walen, the former will help pay for excessive costs.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1477.12.29	All expenses that hoogheemraden incur while closing the walen in the Zeedijk will be distributed across the entire territory of Rijnland.
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
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
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

	Keyword
	repliek
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.10.01	Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.06.25	Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.06.28	This is the verdict in a dispute between Aven Jan Bonens widow and Florijs Aelbertszoon concerning a verhoefslag (apportionment of maintenance responsibilities) for the dike at Houtrijk.

 

	Keyword
	required work
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.

 

	Keyword
	resignation
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
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
	restoration
Date	Summary	Rec details
1417.02.22	Requirement: all who dig peat in Rijnland must plant alder [els] between now and Easter on two hont of every morgen they hold, without exception. The same goes for those near the lakes, and no pit may be wider than four feet [one hont = one-sixth of a morgen].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulate the planting of alder [els] where turf has been mined.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Restrictions on digging peat; must be linked to alder [els] planting
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	A reminder to plant alder (els) before digging peat, as specified in the charters.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Before digging peat, must plant alder [els].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Must plant alder [els] before digging peat.

 

	Keyword
	retirement of heemraad
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.

 

	Keyword
	rewards for informing
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.

 

	Keyword
	reyner brunt
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
	reyner claeszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Order Voorschoten to repair the breach in its ommedijk that Reyner marked with a pole, etc.

 

	Keyword
	reyner dever
Date	Summary	Rec details
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1392.07.11	Limits on peat digging: dig no more than two days worth of peat on either the west or east side of the road between Riedwijker Nuwenwech and Kercklaen; no digging within 40 roeden of the Haarlemmermeer; no transport of peat outside the ambacht of Nieuwerkerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1399.03.16	Prohibition: no fishing nets to be set (touw setten) in front of sluices from Haarlem to Gouda (thus all of Rijnland) with the exception of the Mare and Zijl bridges at Leiden.
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
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
	reyner reynerszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Decision to grant to Clais Jan Wouters z. a section of the embankment on his land at Kostverloren stretching to the Halverwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.07.25	Regulate the maintenance of Kostverloren dike, part of sea dike at Amsterdam, in the wake of the death of Aernt Vechterszoon. Picked up by Reyner Reynerszoon.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Hoogheemraden agree to the transfer of the sea dike near Amsterdam, known as the Kostverloren, from the heirs of Reijnier Reijnierszoon to Pieter Willemszoon, resident of Sloterdijk. Pieter may not sell nothing up to the last sluice in Kostverloren without permission of the Hoogheemraden. The old act, from which it appeared that the dike belonged to Aernt Vechterszoon, Vechter Aerntszoon, Reyner Reynerszoon and widow Lijsbeth, is hereby cancelled.

 

	Keyword
	reyner, grote
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
	rietvelt, jan van, dijkgraaf
Date	Summary	Rec details
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).

 

	Keyword
	rietwijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
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].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Permission for Katwijk, Oegstgeest, Rietwijk, and Nieuwekerk to carry out inspections in same manner as was allowed for Zoeterwoude in 1435 [actually, 1421].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Nieuwerkerk and Rietwijk to move a road on advice of the residents.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.05.03	Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
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
1457.05.03	Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.05.02	Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.

 

	Keyword
	rietwijker newenwech
Date	Summary	Rec details
1392.07.11	Limits on peat digging: dig no more than two days worth of peat on either the west or east side of the road between Riedwijker Nuwenwech and Kercklaen; no digging within 40 roeden of the Haarlemmermeer; no transport of peat outside the ambacht of Nieuwerkerk.

 

	Keyword
	rietwijker sluis
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.03.14	Offer a contract for repairs to the Riedwijk and Nieuwerkerk sluice. Clais Dircxzoon van Schoerl agreed to do the work, to be completed by St. Bartholmew's day (25 August).

 

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

 

	Keyword
	right of way
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.10.01	Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.

 

	Keyword
	rijn
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
1363.08.04	A charter of Duke Albrecht concerning how those on the south side of Woerden, who drain into the IJssel, are to be free of obligations at Spaarndam after the payment of 10 Flemish groten per morgan. Those on the south side who do not drain into the IJssel, along with all on the north side of Woerden, shall pay 5 Flemish groten per morgan and remain responsible for two sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.04.26	Confirmation by Duke Albrecht of an agreement between the dijkgraaf (and baljuw) and hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the free ambacht of Nieuwkoop concerning the drainage of Nieuwkoop at Spaarndam. Nieuwkoop will remain under the jurisdiction of Rijnland and may freely drain via the Spaarndam according to old practices because the old ruling concerning Nieuwkoop's earthworks at Zwammerdam remains in force.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	An addendum to another keur stipulating how and where flax and hemp may be rotted along the Oude Rijn trajectory
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.02.25	Order everyone to remove all fishing apparatus and other equipment from the Oude Rijn within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.06.24	Proclaim in all churches: no fishing paraphernalia may be set in any waterways according to the the evidence from the charters and keuren regarding the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Take testimony in a dispute between the residents of Alphen and those of Randenburg, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk concerning maintenance requirements in the Gouwesluis at Alphen, with a copy of an old charter from 1284 brought into play
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	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
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
1450.05.05	Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1450.06.30	Follows on a keur made on 5 May regarding cleaning of the Oude Rijn with houwen and layken, the long pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water; a followup inspection is ordered for the Friday after St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August).
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
1453.06.26	Replaces older keuren of 1435 (OAR11, 35v-d and 35v-e) by tightening restrictions on rotting flax or hemp in the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Prohibit water pollution in the form of filth and trash to enter the Oude Rijn
Date	Summary	Rec details
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).
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.
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
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	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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.
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
1464.06.27	Order that the Oude Rijn must be inspected east of Leiden as well where, until then, none had been done: must be cleaned on both sides as specified for sections currrently subjected to inspections. In particular, the north bank from Heimansbrug to the Gouwesluis must be maintained as it now is with vegetation sufficient to prevent erosion of banks by ship wakes.
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
1469.02.28	In light of keur of 26 February 1460 prohibiting establishment of pumping mills without the consent of hoogheermaden, permission is now granted to pump with horse mills into the Oude Rijn, the Zijl, or into ones own canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.10	Consent for residents of Alphen inside the new dike (polder between the Oostkade and the Gouwekade) to put a water mill on their land with which to pump into the Oude Rijn on condition that the new dike remain closed and that no water from the Watergang der Vier Ambachten comes through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
1479.03.02	Order Koudekerk and Alphen to maintain Hoge Rijndijk to specifications and not allow a narrowing of the channel itself.

 

	Keyword
	rijn bank
Date	Summary	Rec details
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).
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
	rijndijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1330.07.12	Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1356.04.18	Copy of a charter of 1356 issued by Count Willem V that authorized construction of and established maintenance responsibilities for the Gouwesluis at Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1358.10.19	After negotiations, Jan of Blois, lord of Schoonhoven and Gouda restores the right of Alphen, Boskoop, Hazwerswoude, and Waddinxveen to have and maintain a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel. Apparently, he had ordered it closed at some time earlier.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1361.01.04	Certified copy of a charter issued by Duke Albrecht giving permission to the residents of the polder on the eastside of the Gouwe at Alphen to construct a canal between the Oude Rijn and the IJssel, with rules for the naming of heemraden for schouwing the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1403.10.08	Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulations concerning transport of peat through sluices in the Rijndijk: only while flowing out. Also, as necessary, must build spoyen (ship locks) with kadijken so that no one will be damaged.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Requirement that anyone having an overvaart or wagon path over the hoge rijndijk should make it twice as high as the dike itself.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	No one can have wagen path over another's dike without permission; with permission, nevertheless responsible for all damage
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Instructions to inspect prescribed maintenance work in Alphen for which no one accepts resonsibility.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.12.09	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk be widened by a foot at the top and two feet at the base. In addition, the entire length is to be raised by a foot above the current highest parts and all breaches filled to full dimensions as stipulated. The work is to be done before the next Christmas eve, and all are to be at work on the next Tuesday. Failure to comply to be subject to a fine of 10 lb. And the dams that lie in front of the sluices are to be enlarged to one foot higher than the sluice doors themselves.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.06.24	Ordered that the Hoge Rijndijk should lie two feet from the bank or the Rijn. It should be nine feet wide at the base and six feet on top, and rise to seven feet above the water. The work must be completed before August 15 (Assumptio S. Marie) and be inspected two days later.
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
1431.00.00	Permission for Bertelmees Rijnszoon to put a dam through the Rijndijk (possibly to close a gap in the dike).
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
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
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
1436.10.01	Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.06.28	Permission for Hazerswoude to eliminate a sluice in the Oostkade on the Hoge Rijndijk for lack of need.
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
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 the schout of Zoeterwoude to put his son in charge of keeping livestock off (schutten) the Rijndijk.
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
1452.05.02	Order the construction of a kade in Wassenaar and Voorschoten from Wassenaarsgeest to the Hoge Rijndijk along the north side of the Dodijnslaan.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.
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
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.
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
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
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
	rijndijk, fences on
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.

 

	Keyword
	rijnsaterswoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Heynric Jacopszoon to lay a bridge in a road at Rijnsaterswoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Permission for Rijnsaterswoude to collect morgengeld from some church land (Hielige geest lant).
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Heynric Jacopszoon to carry out inspections in Leimuiden, Vriesekoop, and Rijnsaterswoude with five heemraden instead of seven and to do so twice, once at the expense of the ambachten and the other according to custom.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	Officials in Heer Jacobswoude, Leimuiden, Rijnsaterswoude, and Vriesekoop shall announce and carry out their inspections in the same manner as specified for Alkemade.

 

	Keyword
	rijnsburg
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.

 

	Keyword
	rijnsburg, abbess of
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.

 

	Keyword
	rijnsburg, abbey of
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
	rijnsburg, rentmeester of
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order: unless the rentmeester of Rijnsburg sees to it that the low road at Noordwijk is repaired within 14 days, the dijkgraaf and heemraden will do it at Rijnsburg's expense.

 

	Keyword
	rijnsburger poort
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.

 

	Keyword
	rijpwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1424.05.01	Establishes that the width of the Rijpwetering in the Woutambacht, stretching to Heer Jacobswoude, should be just as wide as the part that extends into the ambacht of Alkemade.

 

	Keyword
	rijsdrecht
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.

 

	Keyword
	rijshout
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
	rijswijk, jacob van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering

 

	Keyword
	riot
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.02.23	Explanation that because of civil disorder in Haarlem the Petri ad cathedram (February) inspections were not held.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	No schouw of the Hoge Zeedijk or Spaandammerdijk because of disorder in Amsterdam.

 

	Keyword
	rival jurisdiction
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibition against residents of Rijnland bringing hydraulic issues to any other jurisdictions.

 

	Keyword
	roads
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Requirement that anyone having an overvaart or wagon path over the hoge rijndijk should make it twice as high as the dike itself.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	No one can have wagen path over another's dike without permission; with permission, nevertheless responsible for all damage
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
Date	Summary	Rec details
1425.00.00	Ordered Hofambocht to reconstruct the road that runs from Heynric Baertsz. buitendijks onto the Nieuwendijk as wide as necessary so that it can accomodate wagons with a good load, and it shall be as high as the outer edg of the Nieuwendijk and shall be completed by 24 June (sinte Jans dach te midsomer).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Leiderdorp to raise the road near Leiden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Regulate maintenance of a road, location unspecified. Pieter Jorgelszoon is responsible for half of it (i.e., both ends), and the other half in between is assigned to those responsible for it in the past.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	Permission for Zoeterwoude to build a road near the St. Nicholas House.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.10.01	Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
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
1437.06.27	A further unspecified road is to be inspected.
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
1437.12.20	Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
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
1438.05.06	Procedures: order the schout of Vennep to inspect all roads during the month of May and at other times as is customary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.09.12	Order: unless the rentmeester of Rijnsburg sees to it that the low road at Noordwijk is repaired within 14 days, the dijkgraaf and heemraden will do it at Rijnsburg's expense.
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
1447.00.00	Forbid the removal of the road near Floertgen along Zoetermeer lake.
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	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
1448.07.04	Permission for Dirck Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to construct a huel (bridge or culvert) through the road/dike in front of his door.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.03.02	Permission for Wilsveen to put a culvert under the road.
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
1451.10.05	Permission to Dirc Willem Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to put a culvert under the road in front of his house.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Oegstgeest to graze the three local access roads (lijtwegen) each year for benefit of the church.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Noordwijk to inspect and maintain an abandoned road Noordwijk as other local access roads (lijtwegen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Nieuwerkerk and Rietwijk to move a road on advice of the residents.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Vechter Claeszoon, official of Zoeterwoude, to breach a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) near the Zoeterwoude church on the condition that villagers are not harmed by this. Further, he may do so yearly, as necessary, presumably so that he can sail/float to his land.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.10	Permission for Bartout van Assendelft of Hillegom to move a road in front of his house.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.01.15	Permission for schout of Aalsmeer to schouw the Aalsmeer road and another road that has not been overseen in four years.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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
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
1454.02.26	Permission for schout of Zoeterwoude with his heemraden to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Kerkweg between the Weipoort and the church of Zoeterwoude, with the size of fines the same as on the other roads in Zoeterwoude.
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
1457.03.01	Permission for Zegwaard to inspect and maintain roads and canals in that same manner as Hazerswoude does.
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
1457.05.03	Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
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
1457.05.03	Order rerouting, repair, and apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
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
1527.03.16	Settlement of dispute between Jan van Wijngarden and village officials of Zoeterwoude concerning maintenance of the road/dike between Lambrecht Jacobszoon northward to Koemanskerk.

 

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	robbrecht claeszoon
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.

 

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	rodenburgerlaen
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

 

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	roesdorp
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.

 

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	rombout inpers
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.

 

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	rotterdammers
Date	Summary	Rec details
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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	rotting of flax
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Replaces older keuren of 1435 (OAR11, 35v-d and 35v-e) by tightening restrictions on rotting flax or hemp in the Oude Rijn.

 

	Keyword
	rotting of hemp
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Prohibition against rotting (reten) of flax or hemp in Oude Rijn or any of its wijken (inlets or coves) between the Rijn dike and the road along the south side of the Oude Rijn.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	An addendum to another keur stipulating how and where flax and hemp may be rotted along the Oude Rijn trajectory
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.06.26	Replaces older keuren of 1435 (OAR11, 35v-d and 35v-e) by tightening restrictions on rotting flax or hemp in the Oude Rijn.

 

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	rozenprieel
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
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
1456.05.04	Order 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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	ruckenveen
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.

 

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	rugelaan
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
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.

 

	Keyword
	rules
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Heemraden establish dates for their primary inspections: the first Tuesday after May Day, after St. John the Baptist's Day, after St. Bavo's Day, and after St. Peter's Day.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1460.02.26	Reinforce earlier keuren that instruct local heemraden to justify their collections of morgen- and penninggeld by submitting accounts for inspection by the hoogheemraden, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Those summoning witnesses for matters before the heemraad must pay witnesses' expenses when they lose their cases.

 

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

 

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	ruus jacopszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.

 

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	ruuys jacobszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1433.00.00	An investigation into a dispute between Rijnland and the city of Amsterdam whose merchants had breached the Overtoom (an overtocht or inclined plane with winch to lift a boat over a dike) in the Kostverloren wetering on the southwestern side of the city to facilitate the transport of some bags of wool. Both sides claimed to own the dike in question and each appealed to old charters granting them jurisdiction. In the end, the arbitrators sided with Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Decision to grant to Clais Jan Wouters z. a section of the embankment on his land at Kostverloren stretching to the Halverwetering

 

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	ruven, claes van
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.

 

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	rynnegom, hofstede van
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Jan van Zwieten to install a turnstile in the Reijnegommerwatering (Zoeterwoude) that can be closed to prevent boat passage through the canal on the condition that he digs a wider and deeper passage next to his manor house, Hofstede Reijnegom.

 

	Keyword
	rynnegommer wateringe
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Jan van Zwieten to install a turnstile in the Reijnegommerwatering (Zoeterwoude) that can be closed to prevent boat passage through the canal on the condition that he digs a wider and deeper passage next to his manor house, Hofstede Reijnegom.

 

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