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Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland OAR 11, 12, 13 : 1253 - 1564
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1483

 

 

Consent	Year
	1400
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.06.24	Authorized Gerijt Willemsz. of Leiden to construct an embankment alongside the wetering large enough to accomodate the construction needed as part of maintenance.

 

Consent	Year
	1410
Date	Summary	Rec details
1410.00.00	Authorized the local water board of Alphen east of the Gouwe to issue rules concerning the inspections they carry out and the judgments they make and to levy fines up to 3 lb.

 

Consent	Year
	1421
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	For Pieter Dever to put a bridge in a road in front of his orchard to be maintained to the satisfaction of the schout and heemraden of the ambacht, unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Permission to take earth for making or repairing the Heerweg in Waddinxveen that is closest to the site and will cause the least damage.

 

Consent	Year
	1425
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1429
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Permission for Zoetermeer to combine two canals into one.

 

Consent	Year
	1431
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).

 

Consent	Year
	1432
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Heynric Jacopszoon to lay a bridge in a road at Rijnsaterswoude
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Koudekerk to install a turnstile on the Heimansbrug
Date	Summary	Rec details
1432.00.00	Permission for Leiderdorp to raise the road near Leiden

 

Consent	Year
	1434
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	For Zoeterwoude to recover unpaid morgengeld by seizing property of those in arrears.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	Permission for Walich Janszoon to carry off and use the turf that Gerijt Boenenzoon bought from him in Vriesekoop until the latter fulfills his morgengeld and prescribed maintenance work responsibilities.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.00.00	Permission for Zoeterwoude to build a road near the St. Nicholas House.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Permission for a canal in Poelien, to be constructed by Florijs van Boschuijsen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	Florijs van Boschuijsen declares that he has permission from the dijkgraaf and heemraden to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe. Florijs agrees to maintain it himself according to the requirements specified by the schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.02.03	The dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland and the Schout of Alphen and the heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen) confirm that Florijs van Boschuijsen has permission to restore a canal in Poelien so that the wild peat lands of Waddinxveen can be drained into the Gouwe.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Permission for Noordwijk to close the Zwet with a dam as they did in the past.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Permission for Rijnsaterswoude to collect morgengeld from some church land (Hielige geest lant).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.06.29	Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
Date	Summary	Rec details
1434.10.03	A clarification that the wetering that Florijs van Boschuijsen had been authorized to restore earlier in the year is to be inspected by the schout and heemraden of the Alphenerwetering (heemraden from Alphen, Boskoop, Hazarswoude, and Waddinxveen).

 

Consent	Year
	1435
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1436
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulates how those within Lisse should pay morgen morgensgelijk just as if they all had emerged from wilderness.
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.05.07	Permission to Zoetermeer to build and inspect a canal (maintain to 8 feet wide) above the Groenenwech stretching from the Clootstael westward to the wetering.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	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
1437.06.25	Permission to Claes Stientgens to construct a sluice with an automatic gate (wachtdoer: opens by the force of water flowing out) in the kadijk of the Benthuizerwetering; he promised to tend it in such a manner that no one is damaged by it.
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1438
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.06.24	Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1438.11.15	Permission for Oegstgeest to build a foot bridge over the Maarn.

 

Consent	Year
	1440
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Permission for Dirc Smitszoon, Wouter van Ansc, Willem Matijszoon and others from Jacobswoude to construct a bay or inlet with a bridge through the road near Woude Manor (hofstede) with a place to launch their boats.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.04.01	Permission for Zegwaard and Zoetermeer to use a ditch as long as its kade is maintained at two spades high.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.06.28	Extended the jurisdiction that Koudekerk had from 50 to 100 roeden or more as needed along certain ditches.
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1441
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.27	Allows Dirc van Zwieten to fish on the Noord Aa, but not the Zwiet.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1441.06.28	Bosch Jans z. may cut peat on his own land in Zoeterwoude under certain conditions.

 

Consent	Year
	1442
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.06.26	Alphen may build a bridge with two sluices across the old Kerksloot.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.06.26	Bartout van Assendelf temporarily appointed as kroosheemraad for Haarlem

 

Consent	Year
	1443
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.03.13	Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.

 

Consent	Year
	1444
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
1444.03.04	Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.03.04	Schout of Koudekerk to announce and carry inspection of the sluices and culverts in the Hoge Rijndijk in the same manner as consented to for Leiderdorp.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	The schout of Koudekerk may inspect the new wetering and sluice in the Lage Waard section of Koudekerk until heemraden say otherwise.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.10.10	Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp

 

Consent	Year
	1445
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.04.05	Permission Jacob van Rijswijk to build a bridge in the Voorschoterwetering
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Permission for Koudekerk to sell part of an embankment to be maintained at no expense to the ambacht.
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
1445.10.05	Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.10.05	Permission for the Friars Minor in the Waard section of Leiden to construct a bridge over the Nieuwe Rijn on the condition that the bridgeheads do not narrow the river.

 

Consent	Year
	1446
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Permission for Woubrugge to carry out inspecticions as simply and cheaply as possible
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1447
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Permission for Gelbairt Pieterszoon to build two bridges, locations unspecified.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to carry out inspections from now on with 5 instead of 7 heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Zoetermeer to carry out inspections in same manner as does Zoeterwoude.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for heemraden of Alphen to inspect the Lage dijk in a single inspection whenever they deem it necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.06.27	Permission for Sassenheim to assign maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) for the the dike that extends from the east side of the windmill toward the lakes.

 

Consent	Year
	1448
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
1448.02.27	Permission for Zoeterwoude to inspect the Nieuwe Wetering and the Ommedijk from the Nieuwe Weterting to Meestgen Vranckenszoon in the same manner as they inspect other canals and roads.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for Lodewijc van Montfoorde, lord of Hazerswoude, to regulate usage and maintenance of a canal and bridge in Hazerswoude. All who drain through it will pay their share in Rijnlands assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Hoogheemraden inform the village officials of Zegwaard that they have begun a process against the hoogheemraden of Schieland because the latter, despite the prohibitions of Rijnland as well as previous agreements, convened oversight sessions in Zegwaard (which spanned the two hoogheemraadschappen) and, as a result, the Rijnland residents of Zegwaard now refuse to pay Rijnland's assessments.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Permission for the schout of Woude [Woubrugge] to schouw in the same manner as the schout of Alkemade does, and he is given a copy of the relevant keur from the book.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	To schout of Zoeterwoude to henceforth inspect the Zwiet and the Zwette on the Friday instead of the Tuesday after St. John's day (June 24).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.
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
1448.07.04	Permission for Dirck Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to construct a huel (bridge or culvert) through the road/dike in front of his door.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.07.04	Permission for Ysebrant de Cuyper and associates to put a footbridge over the Vliet bij Dirck Yscax's place
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.10.08	Permission for Gelderswoude to dig a new canal, 9 feet wide, on the north side of the Broekweg, running from the Kerklaan to the dam for the reservoir (boezemwater) of Zegwaard, to be inspected by the schout of Zoeterwoude along with the heemraden of Gelderswoude in the same manner as is done with other roads and canals.

 

Consent	Year
	1449
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.02.25	Permission for Jacob Claeszoon of Zoeterwoude to put a bridge/culvert through the road on the south side of the church where his prescribed maintenance share is located, on the condition that he maintain it himself, outside of anyone else's cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.06	For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.05.29	Permission for Huge van Berge to put a huel through the Boevesloot.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.06.05	Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1450
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.05.05	Permission for Martin Dircxz. to maintain the shoring in t,e same manner as is done at Leidmuiden and Ter Aar, at his own cost.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for some residents of Oegstgeest to dig a canal through the Hofbroek, from the sluice in the Hofdijk to the Poel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for Oegstgeest to schouw on the Wednesday instead of the Tuesday after May Day because of urgency of work on the land.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Permission for Jongvrouw of Egmond to leave two parcels of good land in Zegwaard un-dug until a ground rent as bond (waarborg) can be established as the heemraden have requested from her. The matter was continued until 4 May 1451.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Schout, kroosheemraden, and community of Benthuizen ask heemraden of Rijnland to settle a question concerning the keeping of a nootweg (access road for agricultural purposes) and a ditch. Schout Jan van Heemstede, village lord, gave permission for it in the past, but now much of the land near it has disappeared and the nootweg may be next. Some want to keep it, the ditch, and an 8-foot buffer because they still keep dwellings there.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1450.06.30	Schout, heemraden, and community of Benthuizen request permission for a drainage ditch to drain 500 roeden of its meadow lands. Permission was granted. 600 roeden equaled on morgen.

 

Consent	Year
	1451
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
1451.05.04	Permission for village officials in Rijnland to report their inability to collect authorized amounts to hoogheemraden; the latter presumably will pursue delinquints.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.06.29	Permission for village of Wassenaar to allow Mees Willem Hendricxzoon to build a stone bridge in the Rugelaan and keep it (collect tolls and maintain it) for 36 years, after which it and the road will be turned over to the ambacht in good condition.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1451.10.05	Permission for those along the Maredijk and the canal (de Peol?) behind Endegeest (Oegstgeest) to have the dijk and canal apportioned for maintenance work (verhoefslagen) by the schout
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1452
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for Koudekerk and others to put culverts through the Lagenwaardse dijk to get rid of surplus water, with basic specifications for the culverts and the clapper doors to be attached.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for 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 schout and village officials of Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to schouw from now on when they think best, without consulting with the villagers.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Permission for 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 Spaarnwoude to place a turnstile on the road behand Pieter Hillebrantazonns house.
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
1452.10.02	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
1452.10.02	Permission for villagers of Koudekerk to apportion the Hogenwaardse dike for maintenance duties (verhoefslagen)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.02	Permission for Ter Aar to give the vruchtgebruik of border embankment (zijdwinde), located in Langeraar, to the church at Ter Aar.
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
1452.10.17	Permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to schouw a canal in Zegwaard (runs through middle of the land and empties into another watering near the Hoefweg), with their schouw beginning at the land of Egghert Vranckenszoon to that of Meeuw Pieterszoon
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	A number of people oppose the permission for Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for a canal in Zegwaard; the latter two respond that many others support them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.10.24	Permission for schout and buren of Wassenaar to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) on a canal beginning at the Papewech and extended eastwards about 100 roeden.

 

Consent	Year
	1453
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
1453.01.15	Permission to the Carthusians of Amsterdam to close a breach in the dike near their monastery with dirt from their own lands without help from others. By agreement of the ambachten, the Carthusians are exempt this time from having to contribute to dike work elsewhere. No legal precedent (recht) will be established in this decision.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Despite some opposition, Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon may continue schouw of a canal in Zegwaard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Permission for schout of Katwijk to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility for the Valkenburger Broekweg because the residents want it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1453.05.08	Permission for schout of Hazerswoude, in his inspection and apportionment of maintenance responsibility for the two canals that replaced the Dirc Doedenwatering, to give partial remission to those still maintaining the Dirc Doedenwatering.
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
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1454
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.02.26	Permission for Gerrit Hugenszoon to dig a ditch through the seven morgens of land he holds within Benthuizen; the ditch to be wide enough for an aelmen (a flat-bottomed boat) to sail through and a footbridge to cross it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.02.26	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
1454.03.12	Permission for Jan Pieterszoon, village official of Wassenaar, and his associates to construct a 4-foot wide stone culvert or bridge in the road in Druijtswael.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.08	Permission for brothers of St. Heronimous in Leiden to construct a water connection to the Oude Rijn along with a bridge in the Oude Weg for better access to their monastery.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.15	Permission for Hazerswoude to put fences on the Slingerkade, which ran between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht..

 

Consent	Year
	1455
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for residents of Zegwaard who live along the Dwars Nieuwevaart to construct bridges over the canal so they can do their sowing and planting for 14 days beginning with St. Servaas Day [13 May] and again for 14 days in August beginning on St. Lawrence Day [10 August].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for 5 or 6 residents of Zegwaard to decide the levy needed for payment to hoogheemraadschap of Schieland for turf digging.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Permission for Pieter van Bossche of Hazerswoude (and bode of Rijnland) to move a kade that runs from the Gelderswoudse brug to the wetering; they prefer it to lie along the wetering. Afterwards, the schout will inspect it like other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.07.01	Permission for those of Benthuizen to put bridge heads 7 feet wide at water level in the Notsloot and two new canals to allow the transfer of cows and hay.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Hazerswoude to dig a canal 9 feet wide from the land of Mees Vranckenszoon to that of Jan Aelwijnszoon and then further along the Ommedijk. Thereafter, the schout shall inspect it like all other roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission to Willem van Leeuwen to contruct two bridge-heads in the canal behind his dwelling in Voorschoten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission to Martijn Everszoon and Wouter Hugenszoon and their associates to put a a culvert or small bridge in the Stompwijkerweg in Hofveen [i.e., Stompwijk], and thereafter they must plant alder [els] according to the keur.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.10.07	Permission for Zoetermeer to assume oversight responsibilities for a bridge already construced in the Broekweg.

 

Consent	Year
	1456
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.04.06	Permission for Zoeterwoude to construct a dam in the canal that the residents of Stompwijk had made from the Brede weer on the Ommedijk because the residents of Zoeterwoude have suffered from too much water coming through the canal.
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
1456.06.29	Permission for Zegwaard to use and maintain a piece of the Banwetering lying near the road in the Ruckenveen.

 

Consent	Year
	1457
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
1457.03.01	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
1457.10.04	Permission for Leiderdorp to construct a kade around the polder land known as the Kerckbou according to the ordinances and cedulen that the heemraden previously issued.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1457.10.04	Permission for those of Achthoeven in Leiderdorp to construct a culvert or small bridge in a dike.

 

Consent	Year
	1458
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.02.28	Permission for a dam in a canal, dug by residents of Stompwijk through Zoeterwoude, to be removed because of the many damaged by it, with the understanding that those damaged by its removal have the right to seek compensation.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Ter Aar to schouw with five instead of seven heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1458.10.03	Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.

 

Consent	Year
	1459
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.06.26	Permission for Voorschoten to inspect and apportion maintenance responsibility in the same manner and against the same fines as does Hazerswoude, as written in the hoogheemraad's book..

 

Consent	Year
	1460
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
1460.05.06	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.

 

Consent	Year
	1461
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.06.30	Permission for Willem Gerijt Diemanszoon to breach the road in Benthuizen and lay a footbridge over it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1461.10.13	Permission for Willem van der Does to construct a stone bridge 14 feet wide in the Rijndijk, next to his house in Leiderdorp, and maintain it at his own expense.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.
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).

 

Consent	Year
	1462
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.02.23	Permission for the participants in the Watergang (canal) der Vier Ambachten (Alphen, Waddinxveen, Hazerswoude, and Boskoop) to construct windmills to pump water from their lands into the canal, which drained into the IJssel River.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.07.06	Permission for Ter Aar and Schoot to inspect and assign maintenance responsibilities 14 days after it was announced in the three nearest churches.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1462.07.06	Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
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
1462.10.09	A few months earlier, permission had been granted to residents of the Blocklanden in Benthuizen to dig a new canal on the end of the Blocklanden, beginning on the Gelderswoudse canal through Allart Meeszoons dam and continuing to the road near Benthuizerhorn -- 8 feet wide, with specifications for any bridges, etc. But, because some now opposed it, two heemraden of Rijnland, Jacob van Woude and Jan van Poelgeest, went to have a look. and ordered, in the name of entire college of hoogheemraden, that Allart Meeszoon's dam be raised and provisioned with two hoofden 7 roeden feet apart at the expense of the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard, and the latter shall schouw the canal and road ditch. The old canal belonging to the Blocklanden shall be left un-schouwed.

 

Consent	Year
	1465
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.03.12	Permission for Willem van Lewen to use the old road near Sint-Nicolaeshuis in Voorschoten, known as the road through Heere Heijrics lant and belonging to Zoeterwoude, and to use it and put a fence on it until relinquished.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.03.12	Permission for schout and kroosheemraden of Benthuizen to decide the extent of the schouw (inspections and assignment of maintenance responsibilities) of all the canals and waterways within their ambacht and to do so in such a manner that the entire ambacht will benefit.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1465.07.23	Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenwaard to the schouw (inspect and maintain) the area canals between the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering for the benefit of the land. Along the east side of the cross canals that will connect the Alphen vaart and the Backwatering, they are to provide a lijdweg or path one rod wide.
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.

 

Consent	Year
	1466
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.05.06	Permission for Willem van Foreest to schouw (inspect and maintain) his ambacht of Middelburg with his schout in May and again at Bamis (October 1).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.05.06	Permission for Clais van Hairlem to breach the dike in front of his house that leads to Hogeveen and to bridge the gap with two bridge heads and a bridge surface with railings so that no one will be inconvenienced.

 

Consent	Year
	1468
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.02.23	Permission for Willem Onderwater and his children and Jacob Vranckezoon and his associates to put a sluice (scotduer) in the ommedijk and maintain it without cost to their neighbors.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.05.03	Permission for an official from Schoot to collect morgengeld of the ambacht under the legal authority of the ambacht as if it had been done in the presence of the assistant to the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1468.06.28	Permission for Zoeterwoude to breach the Ommedijk in the piece of land lying between Vranck Meeszoon and Jan Ailwijnszoon and to place a bridge in the gap on condition that they maintain it themselves.

 

Consent	Year
	1469
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
1469.06.27	Permission for Benthuizen to dig a canal 8 feet wide (7 feet wide at bridge heads) beginning near the koster's (sextons's) house and extending to the Hemsloot. Those along the canal are responsible for its upkeep. The schout and heemraden of Benthuizen will schouw (inspect and maintain) it like all other roads and canals in the ambacht.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.10.03	Permission for Dirck Dircxzoon van Beest to encircle his land along the Gouwekade in the ambacht of Zuidwijk known as Splintersambacht (Boskoop) with a dike. Thereafter he may put a culvert or small bridge (heulkijn) through the Gouwekade to let water in and out without damage to anyone else. All damage caused must be compensated via the hoogheemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.10.03	Permission for Jan die Backer to do as Dirck Dircxzoon van Beest has done -- to encircle his land along the Gouwekade in the ambacht of Zuidwijk known as Splintersambacht (Boskoop) with a dike. Thereafter he may put a culvert or small bridge (heulkijn) through the Gouwekade to let water in and out without damage to anyone else. All damage caused must be compensated via the hoogheemraden.

 

Consent	Year
	1471
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
1471.10.08	Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.

 

Consent	Year
	1472
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.03.03	Permission for Jan Aelwiunszoon and Gerijt Vechterszoon to place a huel (small bridge or culvert) through the road that runs from the church to the Noordaa in Zoeterwoude. The two are responsible for its maintenance and no one must be damaged by it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Jan Clais Dircxzoon to breach the banweg in the West End of Zoeterwoude, near the Hofweg, put in two bridge heads, and install a bridge deck so no one is hindered or made to pay.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Voorschoten to put two stone bridges in the Papenwech over the canals at such height and width that an aelman (small, flat-bottomed boat) loaded with peat or wood can sail through them.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.05.05	Permission for Katwijk aan de Rijn to put a fence on the road in Zevenhuizen, in the bend near Luttickgeest. The fence must be made so it can be opened and closed but remain unlocked.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.06.30	Permission to Wassenaar to place a stone bridge in the Papenwech over the watering near Zandhorst Manor in the same manner as the bridge approved recently for Voorschoten (5 May 1472)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.10.06	Permission for Pieter Willemszoon to sell his interest in the Kostverloren dike and invest the proceeds in else of similar value. A new letter to that effect will be issued by Rijnland.

 

Consent	Year
	1473
Date	Summary	Rec details
1473.07.20	Permission for Willem Sijmonszoon and sons to put a bridge in the Woutweg (Esselijkerwoude) so they can sail through, on condition that they maintain it themselves.

 

Consent	Year
	1474
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.10	Consent for residents of Alphen inside the new dike (polder between the Oostkade and the Gouwekade) to put a water mill on their land with which to pump into the Oude Rijn on condition that the new dike remain closed and that no water from the Watergang der Vier Ambachten comes through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.06.28	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.

 

Consent	Year
	1480
Date	Summary	Rec details
1480.05.09	Permission for kerkmeesters of Hillegom to dig a ditch 6 feet with through their land that lies along the lake.

 

Consent	Year
	1482
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.07.02	Permission for heemraden of Hillegom and Lisse, who now schouw (inspect and maintain) at their own cost to henceforth do three annual schouws and in return receive 1 lb. per schouw -- on 10 July 1498 this apparently was amended to four shouwen per year.

 

Consent	Year
	1483
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.03.04	Permission for Willem Hendricxzoon, Pieter Dircxzoon, Wouter Janszoon, and Claes Janszoon to pump water with a new mill at Hazerswoude as long as no one is harmed by it.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Permission for Heinric van Naeldwijc to replace the horse mills with windmills to pump water from his lordship in Waddinxveen.

 

Years for type "Consent"
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1443	1444	1445	1446	1447	1448	1449	1450	1451	1452	1453	1454	1455	1456	1457
1458	1459	1460	1461	1462	1465	1466	1468	1469	1471	1472	1473	1474	1480	1482
1483

 

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