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Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland OAR 11, 12, 13 : 1253 - 1564
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1459	1460	1463	1464	1466	1467	1469	1470	1472	1473	1474	1477	1478	1479	1481
1482	1483	1484	1486	1506

 

 

Keur	Year
	1330
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1372
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1392
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1394
Date	Summary	Rec details
1394.06.26	Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).

 

Keur	Year
	1399
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
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1400
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.00.00	Surviving hoogheemraden are to pay for masses for the souls of hoogheemraden who die in office.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1400.ca	Authorization: to construct and/or maintain the Slingerkade running between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht.

 

Keur	Year
	1403
Date	Summary	Rec details
1403.10.08	Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.

 

Keur	Year
	1405
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1406
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.03.07	Prohibition against constructing any bridges in any of the canals of Rijnland without permission of the dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
Date	Summary	Rec details
1406.06.10	Prohibition: against vletten (transporting dirt for dike repairs in a special barge, a vlet) with horses through the canals of Coenecoop (Zuid-Waddinxveen).

 

Keur	Year
	1407
Date	Summary	Rec details
1407.05.01	Authorization, continued: lease of the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam

 

Keur	Year
	1412
Date	Summary	Rec details
1412.00.00	Reaffirmation of an arbitration of 1408 concerning a canal named the Delft over which Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout were in dispute with Lisse.

 

Keur	Year
	1416
Date	Summary	Rec details
1416.02.29	Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.

 

Keur	Year
	1417
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
1417.05.03	Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1421
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	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
1421.05.25	Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	The seven aldermen of Spaarnwoude promise the heemraad to construct or reconstruct of the zijl or sluice at Goert Jan Florijsz. before Pentecost and to inspect and maintain all canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Order the restoration of the Hoppen, especially its shoring or plaatwerk, in Sloten and Osdorp to the specifications indicated.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
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
1421.05.25	Order to pay for dirt according to the value established by the the heemraden
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421.05.25	Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.
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
1421.05.25	Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1421-1434	Instructions to inspect prescribed maintenance work in Alphen for which no one accepts resonsibility.

 

Keur	Year
	1422
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Ordered changing the inspection days for Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten from May and St. Martin's Mass to mid-March and the Thursday after St. Bavo's day.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.00.00	Dijkgraaf and heemraden have inspected the damage to and suffering of the good people of Rijnland with respect to their hydraulic works because of warfare (especially south of the Rijn and along the Goude) and they now appoint special lower heemraden in the named ambachten to oversee the reconstruction and to issue keuren, orders, and commands to that effect as necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1422.04.10	Ordered the heemraden of Leiderdorp to redo the assignment of prescribed work (verhoefslagen) for the Dwarswetering because the current assignment was so out of date that no one remembered anymore what work must be done by whom.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1423
Date	Summary	Rec details
1423.00.00	Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
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
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1424
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.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1425
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
1425.06.24	Instructions concerning payments for dirt, where dirt is to be taken, and other matters related to repairing breaches in dikes.

 

Keur	Year
	1429
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Limit on depth allowed in peat digging.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	Order the seizure of livestock grazing on dikes (schutten) with the warning that attempts to circumvent such seizures will be pursued legally.
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	A reminder to plant alder (els) before digging peat, as specified in the charters.
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
1429.00.00	The heemraden of Houtrijk order the rebuilding of the Schinkeldijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	All who drain through Rijnland must pay morgengeld, morgen morgensgelijk.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1429.00.00	When officials seize land to recover unpaid morgengeld assessments, but the seized land is worth less than the amounts owed, they may seize other kinds of property as well.

 

Keur	Year
	1430
Date	Summary	Rec details
1430.01.07	Authorization for Spaarnwoude to build a sluis with associated canal through the dike (Hoge Zeedijk or Spaarndammerdijk) at Hofambacht with various stipulations, including a ban on fishing and a requirement that it be used only to discharge water and not to allow it in from outside.

 

Keur	Year
	1432
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1434
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1435
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
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
1435.00.00	Before digging peat, must plant alder [els].
Date	Summary	Rec details
1435.00.00	Order residents of the 'hogen wilden veen' and Benthoorn (in Benthuizen) to accept their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) or face the damming off of their drainage outlet.

 

Keur	Year
	1436
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Limit peat digging close from within 50 rods of the lakes, except for Bennebroek, where the limit is 25 rods.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Prohibition of peat digging in the Hogenoort.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Prohibition of peat digging behind Heemstede, Bennebroek, with 4 dagvelds per morgen allowed between the Nieuweweg near Benebroek and Lisse. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.00.00	Heemraden instruct the dijkgraaf to block the drainage canal and sluice at Diewer Stientgens that serves Hazerswoude and Benthuizen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.02.28	Limits the peat digging of citizens of Haarlem in Aalsmeer to four dagvelds per morgen, with no one allowed to dig more than a total of 32 dagvelds. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1436.10.01	Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.

 

Keur	Year
	1437
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.00.00	Oath of office for the hoogheemraden of Rijnland.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.03.12	Ordered closing of all breaches in the Stompwijkerwech by Easter (March 31).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.24	Orders schout and heemraden of each ambacht to inspect all canals at appointed times to ensure they are kept clean and free to drain; to see to it that residents carry out their duties in this regard.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.25	Procedures for getting neighbors to cooperate in keeping ditches in good order.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.27	A further unspecified road is to be inspected.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Prohibition against mooring boats to the shoring of the sluices at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Regulation of boat and barge traffic in and around Spaarndam: no one may stand on the sluice in order to drag a vessel through the sluices.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.06.29	Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.03	Heemraden order that Ghijsbrecht Jansz. be paid one white penny per roed for diking his share along the Halmeer and also for dirt.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.09.16	Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
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
1437.09.24	Representatives of city of Leiden, Gerijt van Oestgeest, Jan Heerman, and Willem Bort, promise to appear on Wednesday eight days hence to account for the city's actions regarding alder [els] planting, i.e., poeten or poten, a requirement before beginning to dig peat.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: officials of Boskoop must record all expenses they incur separately from those recorded jointly with Alphen.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1437.12.20	Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections

 

Keur	Year
	1438
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
1438.05.06	General rule on keeping all ditches and canals clean.
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
1438.11.15	Establish how expenses incurred by heemraden while performing their duties are to be reimbursed; certain associates and guests can also be covered.

 

Keur	Year
	1439
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.07.06	Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.07.06	Procedures: the Zandsloot in Katwijk to be inspected in the customary manner.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1439.07.06	Compensation ordered to those whose land is dug up for the Zandsloot in Katwijk according to the rates established by the heemraden.

 

Keur	Year
	1440
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.00.00	Requires local, village officials to submit their accounts to the heemraden before they levy morgengeld
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.03.23	A decision made by four heemraden with the dijkgraaf is just as binding as if it were made by all.
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
1440.06.28	Those vested in the Hogenwaardsedijk may keep it in its current location as long as they do the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) and it accords with the will of the community.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1440.10.04	The stoeling (assessments, assignment of maintenance responsibilities) for Spaarnwoude shall remain as they are as long as they remain outside the territory of Rijnland.

 

Keur	Year
	1441
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
1441.06.28	Zoetermeer has set an example of how the apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) should be done.
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
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1442
Date	Summary	Rec details
1442.10.02	Regulate the construction and maintenance of a new canal and encircling dike at Koudekerk and Oudshoorn. The new construction is to be at the expense of all of Koudekerk except for the Hooge Waard, while its upkeep will be shared by all, including the Hooge Waard. The old dike along the Heymanswetering may be sold off.

 

Keur	Year
	1443
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	Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.05.19	Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1443.06.29	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.

 

Keur	Year
	1444
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.02.24	Regulate fishing in the Spaarndam sluices.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Reemphasize the prohibition against harrasment officials or workers performing their duty.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Prohibition against residents of Rijnland bringing hydraulic issues to any other jurisdictions.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	In matters for which no charters (handvesten) or keuren exist, should resort to common law until keuren have been established.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1444.05.05	Order repair/reconstruction of the Schinkeldijk to same height as the dike at Koudekerk.

 

Keur	Year
	1445
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Kaden to stay closed (unbreached) until St. Peter's ad cathedram (22 February)
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.05.04	Direct the ambachten of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout: to keep the sluices in the Sassemerbeek and Klinkenberg closed between 1 April and mid-May and between 1 October and 11 November. This item was cancelled in 1478.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1445.06.29	Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.

 

Keur	Year
	1446
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.02.22	Leiderdorp must obey the rules and regulation established by the old keuren
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
1446.05.03	No one may build on the Schinkeldijk
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.05.03	Order that the sluice on the end of the Schinkeldijk remain closed so no water can enter Rijnland through it
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	All land in Rijnland, regardless of quality, falls under the jurisdiction of dijkrecht as is written in another document, here appended
Date	Summary	Rec details
1446.10.04	All whose lands drain with Rijnland through the Spaarndam, but have not yet paid their part, must make an appearance to receive their apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen), acknowledged in writting, or face having their drainage blocked -- all according to the charters of Rijnland.

 

Keur	Year
	1447
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	Order the seizure of loose livestock (schutten) against 2 sc. per head on the Schinkeldijk at Spaarndam.
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	Creation of a polder focussed on a drainage canal (waterschap) to be created in Benthuizen, beginning at the Heinlaan and running across to the Gheer then extending between Engbrecht's holding and the windmill holding up to the mill road and then back to the Heinlaan. Those resident in the polder and benefitting from this canal shall maintain it. This polder, with its bridges (9 feet wide) will be inspected by the schout of Benhuizen with 5 heemraden who are resident in the polder.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.00.00	Order the Kerksloot near Haarlem to be restored to one roede wide and as deep as is thought necessary.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.02.28	Must not harrass officials performing their duty
Date	Summary	Rec details
1447.05.02	Revision of an old keur prohibiting digging of peat within 50 rods of the lakes (though for Bennebroek within 25 roeden). From now on anyone digging more than 4 dagvelds per morgen will pay a fine of 10 lb. per 10 dagvelds in excess. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
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).

 

Keur	Year
	1448
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	Endorsement of an earlier keur requiring submission of last year's accounts from Rijnland's ambachten to the hoogheemraden before they can order new assessments. Now is added a time period for submission and a 10 lb. fine if the accounts are not properly submitted.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	Reissuance of instructions to all ambachten of Rijnland that when choosing new officials, one should remain on board until the next time -- to ensure continuity. This seems to be a reissuance of an earlier keur from 1445.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	The earlier keur to clean all ditches for a length of 50 roeden applies only to those directly connected to the ditches involved until some other regulation is provided.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1448.05.06	The hoogheemraden decided to send their assistants (dienres) to inspect the Does this time while they and village officials who had no problems to point out along the Does remained in Leiden to carry on with legal and other matters.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1449
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.06.05	Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.07.01	Ordering the removal of woods along the Schinkelweg in Zegwaard to a distance of 2 rods from the road, because the shade from the woods leaves about 30 rods of the road in bad shape for parts of the year.
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
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
1449.11.18	Middelburg must discharge it maintenance responsibilities on the Schinkeldijk (Spaarndam) within 14 days.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Decision regarding Hogeveen which had long refused to assume its responsibilities in Rijnland's common works and, as a consequence, had been threatened with having its drainage route dammed off. In February 1449 (OAR14, 38v-a) it had been delayed until Easter. Now, a group from Hogeveen has petitioned to have it further delayed while some sort of agreement is worked out. The heemraden, with this keur, agree that the damming will be put off until St. Peter's schouw (24 February 1450) if the Hogeveeners agree to pay morgengeld at the same rate as do their neighboring ambachten and also abide by peat digging regulations such as posting bond, etc.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1449.11.18	Prohibit schout and village officials of Noordwijk or Noordwijkerhout from contracting for hydraulic work other than their own -- to avoid conflicts of interest.

 

Keur	Year
	1450
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
1450.05.05	Hoogheemraden authorized the moving of a turnstile on Mijchiels wael
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
1450.12.17	Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.

 

Keur	Year
	1451
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1452
Date	Summary	Rec details
1452.05.02	Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael.
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
1452.10.02	From now on, anyone who charges someone else falsely before the hoogheemraad shall pay all costs.

 

Keur	Year
	1453
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
1453.05.08	All houses Dirc Haviczoon'x house to those at the end of the Spaarndam must be raised to same height as the street, and 4 roeden wide behind them.
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
1453.06.26	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
1453.10.17	Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).

 

Keur	Year
	1454
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.05.07	Because turf boats have caused extensive dammage to the Barle Canal and its embankment (ran from Oude Rijn along the south side of Diewer Stienkijns to Hogeveen), boats are now prohibited from the canal.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.08	Because all of Rijnland drains via the Spaarne and the Spaarndam and boats and fish corves attached to bridges hinder water flow, henceforth it is forbidden to moor boats or attach fish corves to to the middle three spans of the Visbrug and the middle five spans of the Langebrug near the Rozenprieel.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1454.10.08	Order that the width of passage in the Spaarne be maintained throughout as measured in the five spans of the Langebrug. Within this profile, no boats may be moored on pilings and such nor may fish corves be installed.

 

Keur	Year
	1455
Date	Summary	Rec details
1455.05.06	Concerning the grazing of livestock on the geest (sandy coastal ridges) in Oegsgeest: livestock found grazing on land other than one's own will be confiscated against payment (schutten).

 

Keur	Year
	1456
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
1456.02.24	Landowners of Aalsmeer, including some residents of Haarlem, may dig no more than 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen and no more than 32 total or be fined 10 lbs. for every 10 dagvelds above the limit. This supercedes an earlier keur on this matter. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Instruct Noordwijk and Noordwijkerhout to treat the lijtschouw (initial inspection, in which work to be carried out is indicated) they usually hold in the summer as an afterschouw (final inspection, in which work that is not completed can be put out to contract at the expense of those who were responsible for the work) instead and to carry it out by 4 July.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Prohibit placement of fish corves or traps and mooring of boats between the main gaps in the bridges in the Spaarne at Haarlem.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.05.04	Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land.
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
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.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1456.10.05	All construction, growth, and debris to be removed from the Grote sluis at Spaardam.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1457
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
1457.05.03	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.

 

Keur	Year
	1459
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad to replace one who died is made by the surviving hoogheemraden. The person chosen will pay for 32 masses at the monastery in Warmond for the soul of the one who died, as well as other expenses involved in memorializing their late colleague.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.04.24	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jacob van der Woude, to replace the late Gerijt van Poelgeest.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1459.05.08	Order an inspection of the Mare between the edge of Leiden and Warmond on the first Wednesday after Saint Martin's translatio (8 July) and the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).

 

Keur	Year
	1460
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	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	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
1460.02.26	Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.

 

Keur	Year
	1463
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1464
Date	Summary	Rec details
1464.06.27	Limit peat digging in Sloten and Ostdorp to no closer than 100 rods from the lakes and 500 rods from the dike.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1466
Date	Summary	Rec details
1466.07.01	Because residents of Hillegom and others have continued to dig too much peat, the hoogheemraden have clarified the keur on limiting peat digging to no closer than 50 rods of the lakes (except for Bennebroek), etc. From thenceforth they may dig only 4 dagvelds of peat per morgen on their own land. One dagveld was the quantity of peat excavated from a pit 15 rods long and 10 turves wide and deep.

 

Keur	Year
	1467
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1469
Date	Summary	Rec details
1469.02.28	Limits on how close to someone else's land individuals may dig for clay, dirt, etc., without permission of the owner of the edge or bank [sleet] of the water between Vennip and Warmond. Those found guilty must pay fines and repair damage.
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1470
Date	Summary	Rec details
1470.06.27	Permission to build a dike in Alphen, from the Oostkade (Hazerswoude) to the Gouwe kade, with two 'naecte sluijsen' (sluices without bridges) and a canal (Watergang der Vier Ambachten) along the dike.

 

Keur	Year
	1472
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
1472.03.10	In Oegstgeest, sheep may be grazed only on land that one owns or leases.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1472.03.10	Try to regulate the buying and selling of land that has been mined for peat, in particular to insure that owed taxes are paid by the buyer; such transactions must be overseen by schout and heemraden

 

Keur	Year
	1473
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1474
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.05.14	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1474.06.28	Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.

 

Keur	Year
	1477
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.

 

Keur	Year
	1478
Date	Summary	Rec details
1478.04.23	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jan van Scoten, in place of the late IJsbrant van Scoten.

 

Keur	Year
	1479
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
1479.07.23	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Poelgeest, in place of the late Jan van Poelgeest, his father.

 

Keur	Year
	1481
Date	Summary	Rec details
1481.06.26	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van Zwieten, in place of Hughe van Zwieten, his nephew.

 

Keur	Year
	1482
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.06.16	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gijsbrecht van Raphorst, in place of Dirc Boudijnszoon van Zwieten.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1482.12.01	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Thielman Oem van Wijngaerden, in place of Gerijt van Poelgeest.

 

Keur	Year
	1483
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Authorize a canal in Warmond from the deep Lede to the Zijl, 12 feet wide at water's edge, with additional specifications concerning its use and prescribed maintenance work.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1483.07.15	Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.

 

Keur	Year
	1484
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Those summoning witnesses for matters before the heemraad must pay witnesses' expenses when they lose their cases.
Date	Summary	Rec details
1484.02.24	Regulations for ships in vicinity of Spaarndam: anchor at least 16 rods distant; no fires on ships.

 

Keur	Year
	1486
Date	Summary	Rec details
1486.09.06	Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Adriaen van der Does, in place of the late Adriaen van Zwieten.

 

Keur	Year
	1506
Date	Summary	Rec details
1506.10.13	When a member of the hoogheemraad dies, his replacement will have a silver cross made weighing about 10 ounces.

 

Years for type "Keur"
1330	1372	1392	1394	1399	1400	1403	1405	1406	1407	1412	1416	1417	1421	1422
1423	1424	1425	1429	1430	1432	1434	1435	1436	1437	1438	1439	1440	1441	1442
1443	1444	1445	1446	1447	1448	1449	1450	1451	1452	1453	1454	1455	1456	1457
1459	1460	1463	1464	1466	1467	1469	1470	1472	1473	1474	1477	1478	1479	1481
1482	1483	1484	1486	1506

 

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William H. TeBrake Maine, USA, June 2006	Rijnland OAR11, OAR12, OAR13	www.janvanhout.nl