Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland
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saelmonsberch 1 Keyword Summaries 1425  
sale of land 1 Keyword Summaries 1451  
sande, heer van 1 Keyword Summaries 1358  
santsloot 3 Keyword Summaries 1439 1439
sasbout aelwijnszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1453  
sassemerbeek 1 Keyword Summaries 1445  
sassenheim 4 Keyword Summaries 1443 1457
scafgaende weren 1 Keyword Summaries 1421  
schagerdijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1388  
schalkwijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1457  
scheorl, claes dircszoon van 1 Keyword Summaries 1460  
schepenbrief 1 Keyword Summaries 1429  
schepenen 2 Keyword Summaries 1421 1423
schieland 13 Keyword Summaries 1391 1470
schieland, heemraden van 1 Keyword Summaries 1448  
schieland, hoogheemraadschap van 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
schinkeldijk 7 Keyword Summaries 1286 1449
schinkelende 1 Keyword Summaries 1457  
schinkelweg 1 Keyword Summaries 1449  
schoerl, claes dircszoon van 2 Keyword Summaries 1458 1469
schoerl, claes dircxzoon van 1 Keyword Summaries 1449  
schoonhoven, heer van 1 Keyword Summaries 1358  
schoot 8 Keyword Summaries 1437 1469
schotdeuren 3 Keyword Summaries 1446 1472
schouten 88 Keyword Summaries 1284 1523
schouw cancelled 1 Keyword Summaries 1445  
schouw, illegal 1 Keyword Summaries 1401  
schouwdagen 1 Keyword Summaries 1441  
schouwen 101 Keyword Summaries 1284 1564
schouwsloot 1 Keyword Summaries 1443  
schutten 8 Keyword Summaries 1417 1474
scoten 1 Keyword Summaries 1443  
scoten, ijsbrant van 53 Keyword Summaries 1438 1478
scoten, ijsbrant van scoten 2 Keyword Summaries 1457 1469
scoten, jan van 4 Keyword Summaries 1478 1495
scotsetters 1 Keyword Summaries 1385  
scoude, aven van 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
scuer, ijsbrant van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1363  
scuer, symon van der 9 Keyword Summaries 1392 1417
scutsluis 1 Keyword Summaries 1421  
scuttinge 2 Keyword Summaries 1438 1439
selection 6 Keyword Summaries 1356 1463
selling of land 1 Keyword Summaries 1463  
sheep 5 Keyword Summaries 1417 1472
shells 2 Keyword Summaries 1463 1469
ship lock 4 Keyword Summaries 1253 1451
ships 15 Keyword Summaries 1253 1484
ships, mooring of 1 Keyword Summaries 1454  
shoring 9 Keyword Summaries 1421 1525
sint-heronimus 1 Keyword Summaries 1456  
sint-heronimus, broeders van 1 Keyword Summaries 1454  
sint-jan, commanderij van 1 Keyword Summaries 1447  
sint-jan, heren lant van 2 Keyword Summaries 1399 1399
sint-marienpoel 2 Keyword Summaries 1448 1456
sint-niclaeshuis 2 Keyword Summaries 1434 1465
slander 2 Keyword Summaries 1443 1447
slingerkade 2 Keyword Summaries 1400 1454
sloten 12 Keyword Summaries 1405 1477
sloterbrugge 3 Keyword Summaries 1431 1431
sloterdam 1 Keyword Summaries 1460  
sloterdijk 2 Keyword Summaries 1438 1449
sluices 68 Keyword Summaries 1253 1525
sluiswachter 1 Keyword Summaries 1463  
smaeldorpen 6 Keyword Summaries 1446 1525
snijdelwijk 13 Keyword Summaries 1284 1525
soytgen claes 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
soytgen jacobszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1384  
spaardammerdijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1286  
spaarndam 55 Keyword Summaries 1253 1525
spaarndam, capel van 1 Keyword Summaries 1450  
spaarndammerdijk 36 Keyword Summaries 1255 1525
spaarne 7 Keyword Summaries 1441 1469
spaarneland 2 Keyword Summaries 1372 1443
spaarnwoude 27 Keyword Summaries 1416 1477
spaarnwoude kerk van 1 Keyword Summaries 1430  
spaarnwoude, florijs van 1 Keyword Summaries 1452  
spaarnwoudersluis 1 Keyword Summaries 1452  
sparenwoude, claes van 3 Keyword Summaries 1434 1443
sparenwoude, florijs van 5 Keyword Summaries 1430 1449
sparenwoude, gerijt van 1 Keyword Summaries 1447  
sparenwoude, willem van 1 Keyword Summaries 1460  
specifications 48 Keyword Summaries 1330 1527
speck, jacobs croft van der 1 Keyword Summaries 1436  
speertgenszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1525  
splinters ambacht 1 Keyword Summaries 1458  
splinters ambacht uten waard 2 Keyword Summaries 1284 1446
splinters voet 1 Keyword Summaries 1469  
spoelwijk 1 Keyword Summaries 1361  
spoy 1 Keyword Summaries 1407  
spoyen 3 Keyword Summaries 1407 1446
stadhouder 1 Keyword Summaries 1469  
staende touw 2 Keyword Summaries 1438 1447
staesgis stege 1 Keyword Summaries 1371  
stempels 1 Keyword Summaries 1446  
sticht 1 Keyword Summaries 1363  
stijlen 1 Keyword Summaries 1446  
stoeling 3 Keyword Summaries 1423 1441
stompwijc 1 Keyword Summaries 1443  
stompwijk 4 Keyword Summaries 1437 1456
stompwijkerweg 1 Keyword Summaries 1455  
stone bridge 5 Keyword Summaries 1451 1472
stoppen van watergangen 3 Keyword Summaries 1446 1451
summer dikes 1 Keyword Summaries 1446  
survey 2 Keyword Summaries 1443 1443
swet 2 Keyword Summaries 1399 1399
symon brunincs 1 Keyword Summaries 1439  
symon claeszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1430  
symon corneliszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1533  
symon die volre 1 Keyword Summaries 1431  
symon eggertszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1453  
symon heye airntszoon, dijkgraaf 1 Keyword Summaries 1460  
symon heynricszoon 1 Keyword Summaries 1442  
symon suytvoet 1 Keyword Summaries 1417  

 

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  saelmonsberch  
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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.
 

 

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

 

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  sande, heer van  
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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.
 

 

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  santsloot  
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1439.07.06 Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 
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1439.07.06 Procedures: the Zandsloot in Katwijk to be inspected in the customary manner.
 
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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.
 

 

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  sasbout aelwijnszoon  
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1453.02.25 Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
 

 

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  sassemerbeek  
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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.
 

 

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  sassenheim  
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1443.05.19 Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
 
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1447.06.27 Permission for Sassenheim to assign maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) for the the dike that extends from the east side of the windmill toward the lakes.
 
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1450.06.30 Permission for Rijnsburg and Oegstgeest to use their geest (sandy coastal ridges) in the same manner as do Lisse, Voorhout, and Sassenheim, i.e., removing sand to uncover peat underneath.
 
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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.
 

 

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  scafgaende weren  
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1421.05.25 Regulate how morgengeld is to be levied along the Scafgaende weren in Zoeterwoude.
 

 

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  schagerdijk  
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1388.08.18 Copy of a charter issued by Duke Aelbrecht in which those within Rijnland who had previously paid morgengeld to build and/or maintain a section of a dike of the Zijpe, between Petten and Oghe, and of the Schagerdijk near Oghe, will now be free of this obligation.
 

 

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  schalkwijk  
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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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  scheorl, claes dircszoon van  
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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.
 

 

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  schepenbrief  
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1429.05.15 Settlement of a dispute between the hoogheemraden and the heirs to Gerijt van Bosschuysens concerning money that the late Gerijt, a former colleague, owed to the Hoogheemraadschap.
 

 

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  schepenen  
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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.
 
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1423.00.00 Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
 

 

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  schieland  
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1391.02.13 Settlement a of dispute between the hoogheemraden of Rijnland and the hoogheemraden of Schieland concerning payment of morgengeld by Alphen -- concerns it's share in a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that ran through a section of Schieland and drained via a sluice into the IJssel. Alphen shall pay Rijnland for the portion lying in Rijnland and Schieland for the portion lying in Schieland.
 
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1394.06.26 Limits on peat digging and burning: forbidden within 10 roeden of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other).
 
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1415.03.19 Dispute settlement between Rijnland and Schieland concerning penninggeld collected in Alphen, Hasertswoude, Waddinxveen, and Boskoop concerning a waterway on the west side of the Gouwe that drained via a sluice into the IJssel.
 
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1451.02.22 Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
 
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1453.02.25 Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Sasbout Aelwijnszoon and also Daem Janszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
 
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1453.02.25 Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
 
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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].
 
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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.
 
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1460.04.20 This document comes from the Hoogheemraadschap van Schieland -- gives the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) permission to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
 
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1460.04.20 Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
 
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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.
 
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1469.09.28 Copy of a charter from Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland concerning the need to prosecute those digging peat too closely to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) . The heemraden should not allow digging within 4 roeden; an old charter set at least a buffer of 10 roeden which must be maintained and the landscheiding itself is to be 10 feet wide.
 
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1470.02.27 Hoogheemraden issue a decision concerning unauthorized peat digging, too close to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other), by residents of Waddinxveen, with a brief review of what has happened so far, going back to when Jan van Rietvelt was dijkgraaf (1467-1469).
 

 

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  schieland, heemraden van  
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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.
 

 

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  schieland, hoogheemraadschap van  
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1450.12.17 Copy of a keur issued by the Hoogheemraadschap of Schieland establishing rules concerning peat digging in the Binnenwegsepolder of Zegwaard.
 

 

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  schinkeldijk  
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1286.02.18 Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
 
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1429.00.00 The heemraden of Houtrijk order the rebuilding of the Schinkeldijk
 
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1444.05.05 Order repair/reconstruction of the Schinkeldijk to same height as the dike at Koudekerk.
 
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1446.05.03 No one may build on the Schinkeldijk
 
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1446.05.03 Order that the sluice on the end of the Schinkeldijk remain closed so no water can enter Rijnland through it
 
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1447.00.00 Order the seizure of loose livestock (schutten) against 2 sc. per head on the Schinkeldijk at Spaarndam.
 
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1449.11.18 Middelburg must discharge it maintenance responsibilities on the Schinkeldijk (Spaarndam) within 14 days.
 

 

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

 

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  schinkelweg  
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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.
 

 

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  schoerl, claes dircszoon van  
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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).
 
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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.
 

 

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  schoerl, claes dircxzoon van  
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1449.11.18 The hoogheemraden declare that, before 22 February 1450, Clais Dircxzoon must pay Claes Willemszoon for injuries done to the latter's son, Willem Claeszoon. The son, a skipper's helper, was injured when Clais Dircxzoon let the sluice door of the Grote sluis at Spaarndam fall while repairing the sluice.
 

 

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  schoonhoven, heer van  
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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.
 

 

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  schoot  
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1437.09.16 Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
 
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1438.06.24 Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
 
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1445.10.05 Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
 
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1446.02.22 Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1469.05.02 Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
 

 

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  schotdeuren  
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1472.03.03 Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
 

 

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  schouten  
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1400.12.28 Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
 
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1401.05.19 Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
 
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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.
 
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1421.05.25 Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
 
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1423.00.00 Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1434.06.29 Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
 
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1435.00.00 Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1436.02.28 Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.
 
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1436.02.28 Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 
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1437.05.07 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.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.25 Procedures for getting neighbors to cooperate in keeping ditches in good order.
 
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1437.09.16 Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
 
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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.
 
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1437.12.20 Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
 
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1437.12.20 Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
 
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1438.02.25 Order Voorschoten to choose officials in the customary manner within 14 days.
 
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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.
 
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1438.05.06 General rule on keeping all ditches and canals clean.
 
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1439.07.06 Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 
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1439.07.06 Procedures: the Zandsloot in Katwijk to be inspected in the customary manner.
 
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1440.06.28 Extended the jurisdiction that Koudekerk had from 50 to 100 roeden or more as needed along certain ditches.
 
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1440.10.04 Permission for Leiderdorp to lease out their kadijk to three or four men who will reconstruct it as they see fit; those protected by it will pay the costs.
 
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1442.12.20 An official of Koudekerk explains that, with consent of the village lord, the schout, the majority of residents of Koudekerk, and the heemraaden of Rijnland, he has sold a kade for the benefit of Gnephoeck (Oudshoorn) for 35 Wilhelmusschilden which money he has laid out for the construction of a new kade at Koudekerk stretching from the Lagenwaardse dike en Ofwegen (Koudekerk).
 
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1443.03.13 Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
 
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1443.06.29 Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.
 
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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.
 
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1444.03.04 Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
 
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1444.03.04 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.
 
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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.
 
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1444.10.10 Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
 
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1446.02.22 Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
 
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1446.06.28 In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.
 
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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
 
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1446.10.04 Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
 
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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.
 
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1447.06.27 Amounts to be paid for redeeming livestock seized (schutten) because they were grazing on the Rijndijk.
 
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1448.02.27 Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement.
 
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1448.05.06 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).
 
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1448.05.06 For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.
 
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1448.05.06 Permission for the schout of Zoeterwoude to put his son in charge of keeping livestock off (schutten) the Rijndijk.
 
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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.
 
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1449.05.06 For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
 
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1449.05.29 Unless she repays twice the amount of money that the schout of Vriesekoop put up on her behalf, Geertruyt Geryt Goemen will be banned from Rijnland.
 
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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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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1453.01.15 Permission for schout of Aalsmeer to schouw the Aalsmeer road and another road that has not been overseen in four years.
 
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1453.01.15 At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
 
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1453.05.08 Despite some opposition, Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon may continue schouw of a canal in Zegwaard.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1453.10.17 Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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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1458.10.03 Order the heemraad's bode to go to Zegwaard to settle the matter of who is responsible for maintaining a certain canal that, according to some, is not being contributed to by the very ones who benefit the most from it.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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1468.11.12 Settlement of an unspecified dispute between the schout of Oudshoorn vs. Louwerijs Willemszoon, Claes Daemszoon, and Dirck Aelbrechtszoon; both parties have turned to the hoogheemraden for a ruling which both promise to accept.
 
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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.
 
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1471.10.08 Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.
 
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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
 
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1473.10.05 Prohibit running of wagons on the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) that extends from the Zijdwinde to the end of Zegwaard ambacht, to be regularly inspected by the schout and kroosheemraden of Zegwaard.
 
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1474.06.28 Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.
 
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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.
 
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1495.06.30 Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld
 
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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.
 

 

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1445.10.05 No schouw of the Hoge Zeedijk or Spaandammerdijk because of disorder in Amsterdam.
 

 

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1401.05.19 Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
 

 

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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.
 

 

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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.
 
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1286.02.18 Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1385.04.01 A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.
 
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1400.12.28 Regulation of the authority and manner of schouw, most likely of the Gouwe and/or its kaden.
 
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1401.05.19 Settlement of an action taken by the dijkgraaf and hoogheemraden of Rijnland against the schout of Alphen along with heemraden of Alphen, Haszerswoude, and Boskoop for an illegal schouw (inspection) that had done on the Bakwetering in Waddinxveen.
 
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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.
 
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1416.02.29 Stipulation: how the ambacht of Zegwaard should carry out its inspections.
 
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1421.05.25 Regulates how the scout and local heemraden of Zoeterwoude are to carry out their inspections
 
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1421.05.25 Regulate how local communities should enforce prescribed maintenance work requirements.
 
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1434.06.29 Sets payment to heemraden and schout of Alkemade for their inspection work: 12 p and 2 sc., respectively
 
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1435.00.00 Regulate how local officials should inspect their roads (dikes) in Alphen.
 
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1435.00.00 Inspection of the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) at Waddinxveen with agreement that it meets standards.
 
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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.
 
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1436.02.28 Orders schout and heemraden of Hasertswoude to inspect Boudwijn Steens polder according to old custom.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.27 A further unspecified road is to be inspected.
 
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1437.09.16 Authorized a canal (waterscup) to be used by Schoot and Korteraar running from the Aar to the Oude Aar.
 
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1437.12.20 Regulate how Hazerswoude should inspect roads and canals.
 
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1437.12.20 Procedures: how the officials of Boskoop, Middelburg, and Randenburg are to carry out their inspections
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1438.06.24 Schoot to carry out inspections with five kroosheemraden.
 
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1439.07.06 Procedures: the Zandsloot in Katwijk to be inspected in the customary manner.
 
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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.
 
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1443.06.29 Instructions on how officials in Alkemade shall announce and conduct their inspections.
 
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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.
 
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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
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1444.03.04 Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
 
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1444.05.05 Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
 
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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.
 
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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].
 
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1445.10.05 Permission for Schoot to perform inspections with 4 instead of 5 people because of lack of residents.
 
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1446.02.22 Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
 
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1446.05.03 Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
 
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1446.05.03 Permission for Woubrugge to carry out inspecticions as simply and cheaply as possible
 
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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
 
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1446.08.24 Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
 
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1447.06.27 Permission for Benthuizen to carry out inspections from now on with 5 instead of 7 heemraden.
 
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1447.06.27 Permission for Zoetermeer to carry out inspections in same manner as does Zoeterwoude.
 
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1447.06.27 Permission for heemraden of Alphen to inspect the Lage dijk in a single inspection whenever they deem it necessary.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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1448.05.06 For schout of Zoeterwoude to inspect the sloot alongside the Zandweg between Leiden and Ter Wadding.
 
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1448.10.08 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.
 
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1449.05.06 For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
 
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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.
 
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1449.11.18 Permission for the schout and heemraden of Zegwaard to inspect the the section of the new canal built by Rotterdammers that runs through Zegwaard between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and Eggertsland.
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1450.06.30 Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
 
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1450.06.30 Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
 
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1451.10.05 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
 
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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.
 
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1452.05.02 Permission for Noordwijk to inspect and maintain an abandoned road Noordwijk as other local access roads (lijtwegen).
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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1453.01.15 Permission for schout of Aalsmeer to schouw the Aalsmeer road and another road that has not been overseen in four years.
 
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1453.01.15 At a hearing at Haarlem on Monday, 15 January, the hoogheemraden ordered the closing of all dike breaches, both east and west of Amsterdam, as soon as possible, all at the same time, to be coordinated with the trustees of the water board Amstelland. An appended note said the work was to begin on the following Sunday
 
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1453.05.08 Despite some opposition, Dirc Humanszoon and Olivier Aerntszoon may continue schouw of a canal in Zegwaard.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1457.03.01 Permission for Zegwaard to inspect and maintain roads and canals in that same manner as Hazerswoude does.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1458.10.03 Permission for Ter Aar to schouw with five instead of seven heemraden.
 
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1458.10.03 Permission for Esselijkerwoude to inspect and prescribe maintenance work in the same manner as Zoeterwoude does.
 
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1459.05.08 Order an inspection of the Mare between the edge of Leiden and Warmond on the first Wednesday after Saint Martin's translatio (8 July) and the apportionment of maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 
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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..
 
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1460.02.26 Order the restoration of the Rijndijk along both banks to be maintained at minimally 18 roede feet wide, and all plantings that have impinged on this width must be removed. Reiteration of earlier orders.
 
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1460.02.26 Reemphasize the need to remove obstructions or impingements on the Rijn at Leiden.
 
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1460.02.26 Order repairs to the Rijndijk embankment that has been badly damaged by illegal wagon traffic.
 
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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).
 
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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.
 
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1462.07.06 Permission for Leiderdorp to schouw in the same manner as Hazerswoude and Zoeterwoude
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1465.07.23 Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
 
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1465.07.23 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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1471.10.08 Permission for schout and heemraden of Lisse to schouw (inspect and maintain) and put in order the beek next to Pouwels Dammeszoon -- should be dredged to old depth beginning at the heul (small bridge or culvert) next to Pouwels house to the Meer. Those residents who don't do their work may be assessed 9 sc.
 
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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.
 
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1479.03.02 Resolve to enforce penalities for those not promptly performing their prescribed maintenance work along the Oude Rijn (Hoge Rijndijk).
 
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1482.07.02 Permission for heemraden of Hillegom and Lisse, who now schouw (inspect and maintain) at their own cost to henceforth do three annual schouws and in return receive 1 lb. per schouw -- on 10 July 1498 this apparently was amended to four shouwen per year.
 
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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.
 
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1483.07.15 Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
 
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1564.01.25 Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out Goudkade and Binnenkade.
 

 

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1443.05.19 Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
 

 

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1417.05.03 Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike.
 
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1429.00.00 Order the seizure of livestock grazing on dikes (schutten) with the warning that attempts to circumvent such seizures will be pursued legally.
 
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1447.00.00 Order the seizure of loose livestock (schutten) against 2 sc. per head on the Schinkeldijk at Spaarndam.
 
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1447.06.27 Amounts to be paid for redeeming livestock seized (schutten) because they were grazing on the Rijndijk.
 
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1448.05.06 Permission for the schout of Zoeterwoude to put his son in charge of keeping livestock off (schutten) the Rijndijk.
 
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1449.06.05 Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
 
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1453.10.17 Prohibit grazing of livestock along the Gouwekade in Alphen and the Oostkade in Hazerswoude. Livestock found on these dikes will be impounded (schutten).
 
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1474.06.28 Order the seizure of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Nieuwe Kade at Alphen against a payment of 5 sc.
 

 

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1443.02.24 Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.
 

 

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1438.07.01 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1438.ca List of heemraden who served as rentmeester from 1432 to 1438, with their backups from 1432-1437
 
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1440.08.31 Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
 
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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.
 
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1441.09.12 Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).
 
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1442.05.01 Symon Heinricxzoon and associates can disassociate themselves from Valkenburg in matters of drainage.
 
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1443.03.13 Order Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten to repair the dike breach at Stompwijk (presumably along the Zoetermeer).
 
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1443.03.13 Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
 
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1443.03.13 Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
 
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1443.03.13 Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
 
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1443.05.19 Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
 
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1443.05.19 Order digging of a ditch of 8 feet along the Voorhout side of the Zwiet, subject to inspection.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
 
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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.
 
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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
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1444.02.24 Regularize the time and manner of collecting assessments in the ambachten of Rijnland.
 
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1444.03.17 Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
 
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1444.05.05 Prohibit harrasment of officials or workers doing their duty.
 
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1444.10.06 Settlement of a dispute over maintenance of part of the Kostverloren dike which was completely rebuilt: a pole must not be placed in the middle where the former sluice lay; maintenance henceforth to be carried out according to the provisions of the documents issued in this matter, outside the expense of the Rijnland.
 
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1445.05.04 Instructions on how to choose local heemraden.
 
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1445.06.29 Clarification of an old keur concerning cleaning of waterways and canals -- removal of duckweed (kroos), etc.
 
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1445.10.05 Permission for Zoeterwoude and Benthuizen to renew a footbridge (kwakelbrug) on the condition that it be the same as the original.
 
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1446.02.22 Permission for Schoot to announce upcoming inspections on one Sunday instead of three in the three nearest churches.
 
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1446.05.03 Permission for Kaagdorp (Kaag) to perform inspections in the same manner as does Alkemade.
 
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1446.08.24 Inspection of the Hoge Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk)
 
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1446.10.04 Part of dispute between Rijnland and the cities of Leiden and Haarlem which involved, among other things, a certain Wernbout Janszoon reading out pronouncement in front of the city hall of Leiden after ringing the bells, as if he were a schout, telling the citizens of Leiden not to render morgengeld until the hoogheemraden first revealed their accounts to two members of the Council of Holland and to the cities of Haarlem and Leiden. Wernbout claimed he was authorized to do this by the Court of Holland. Rijnland's response was to fine Wernbout 10 lb. unless he could produce proof of his authorization, which he apparently could not.
 
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1447.02.28 Must not harrass officials performing their duty
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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1447.11.14 Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
 
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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..
 
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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.
 
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1448.06.25 Verdict in the dispute between Vechter Clasezoon, an official of Zoeterwoude, and the burgemeesters of Leiden concerning the assessment of 50 morgens of land that was taken up within the city walls. The hoogheemraden sided with Leiden because, by Vechter's admission, no assessments had been collected on this land for over 50 years, and the rule in place says that if morgengeld is not collected for a third of 100 years, the right to assess the land is forfeited.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1449.05.06 For the schout and heemraden of Oegstgeest to establish an inspection of all roads and canals.
 
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1449.05.29 Unless she repays twice the amount of money that the schout of Vriesekoop put up on her behalf, Geertruyt Geryt Goemen will be banned from Rijnland.
 
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1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 
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1450.05.05 Order the cleaning of the south side of the Oude Rijn as far into the water as can be reached by houwen and layken (the pruning knives and implements used to haul plants out of water).
 
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1451.02.22 Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
 
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1458.03.14 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
 
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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.
 
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1460.04.20 Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
 
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1469.05.02 Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
 
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1474.05.14 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Gerijt van Poelgeest, in place of the late Phillips van Wassenaer.
 
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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.
 
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1478.04.23 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jan van Scoten, in place of the late IJsbrant van Scoten.
 

 

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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.
 
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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.
 

 

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1478.04.23 Selection of a new hoogheemraad, Jan van Scoten, in place of the late IJsbrant van Scoten.
 
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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.
 
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1491.03.01 Settlement of a dispute over payment of aardgeld, place unspecified.
 
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1495.06.30 Verdict in a dispute Hughe Hugenzoon van Zwieten, on behalf of Rijnland, and Dirc van Bosche, schout, concerning certain penninggeld
 

 

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1385.04.01 A certified copy, made 3 January 1437, by Dirc van Wassenaar of a charter first issued in 1385 (original says 1384, but the court of Holland normally began the new year around Easter). The original charter regulated some differences between Hazerswoude and Leiden concerning jurisdiction over lands in Hazerswoude owned by Leidenaars, among other things.
 

 

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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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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.
 

 

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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1406.03.07 Prohibition against constructing any bridges in any of the canals of Rijnland without permission of the dijkgraaf and heemraden of Rijnland
 
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1408.06.11 Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.
 
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1415.01.09 A promisory note -- the hoogheemraden owe Witte Jacob Buzenz. 142 lb. 10 sc. for food and drink
 
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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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1416.01.09 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

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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.
 

 

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1438.02.25 Order everyone to remove all fishing apparatus and other equipment from the Oude Rijn within 14 days.
 
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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.
 

 

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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.
 
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1438.02.25 Order Voorschoten to choose officials in the customary manner within 14 days.
 
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1444.10.10 Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
 
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1446.06.28 In the dispute between Willem Bartoen (on behalf of residents of Voorhout) and Albert Nagel (schout of Voorhout), Albert must henceforth choose village officials in consultation with (met inspraak van) the residents of Voorhout, as is done in other ambachten and concerning which a keur is in effect.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 

 

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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.
 

 

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1417.05.03 Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike.
 
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1449.06.05 Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
 
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1455.05.06 Concerning the grazing of livestock on the geest (sandy coastal ridges) in Oegsgeest: livestock found grazing on land other than one's own will be confiscated against payment (schutten).
 
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1456.05.04 Residents of Oegstgeest, Valkenburg, and Katwijk must confine their livestock to fences on their own land.
 
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1472.03.10 In Oegstgeest, sheep may be grazed only on land that one owns or leases.
 

 

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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.
 
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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.
 

 

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1253.04.09 Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization: lease out the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam for two years beginning 1 May 1407 and ending 1 May 1409; includes particulars of the lease as well as the purchase of wine (wijnkoop) for sealing the terms.
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization, continued: lease of the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam
 
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1451.05.04 Settlement of dispute between Mertijn Dircxzoon and his nephew, Clais Heijnricxzoon concerning responsibility for maintaining the shoring on the Spaarndammerdijk, behind the Kolk (Grote sluis), formerly maintained by Leimuiden and Ter Aar.
 

 

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1253.04.09 Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
 
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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.
 
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1434.05.01 Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
 
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1437.06.29 Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.29 Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1451.05.04 Settlement of dispute between Mertijn Dircxzoon and his nephew, Clais Heijnricxzoon concerning responsibility for maintaining the shoring on the Spaarndammerdijk, behind the Kolk (Grote sluis), formerly maintained by Leimuiden and Ter Aar.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1483.07.15 Order the maintenance by Warmond of the Lede and Poel behind Warmond.
 
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1484.02.24 Regulations for ships in vicinity of Spaarndam: anchor at least 16 rods distant; no fires on ships.
 

 

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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.
 

 

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1421.05.25 Order the restoration of the Hoppen, especially its shoring or plaatwerk, in Sloten and Osdorp to the specifications indicated.
 
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1421.05.25 Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
 
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1421.05.25 Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.
 
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1434.05.01 Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.03.13 Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
 
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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.
 
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1449.11.18 Middelburg must discharge it maintenance responsibilities on the Schinkeldijk (Spaarndam) within 14 days.
 
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1451.05.04 Settlement of dispute between Mertijn Dircxzoon and his nephew, Clais Heijnricxzoon concerning responsibility for maintaining the shoring on the Spaarndammerdijk, behind the Kolk (Grote sluis), formerly maintained by Leimuiden and Ter Aar.
 
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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).
 

 

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1456.05.04 Permission to keep the bridge in front of the Rijnsburgerpoort (Leiden) open. The regulars of (Maridn)poel and the brothers of St. Hieronymous (Lospen, Leiden) and others who live there may maintain the drain (verlaet) at their own cost on condition that they keep it closed whenever the water in the Oude Rijn is higher than the binnenwater so that no land gets flooded.
 

 

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1454.10.08 Permission for brothers of St. Heronimous in Leiden to construct a water connection to the Oude Rijn along with a bridge in the Oude Weg for better access to their monastery.
 

 

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1447.06.27 Verdict in the matter of Jan Boem, procurator of the Commanderij van Sint-Jan, in a dispute with the heemraden of Hogeveen concerning land they both claim. In the end, the hoogheemraden sided with Hogeveen.
 

 

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1399.03.08 Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
 
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1399.03.08 Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal.
 

 

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1448.02.27 Heemraden accept the resignation of heemraad Boudwijn van Zwieten for health reasons and choose Jan van Poelgeest, schout of Leiden, as his replacement.
 
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1456.05.04 Permission to keep the bridge in front of the Rijnsburgerpoort (Leiden) open. The regulars of (Maridn)poel and the brothers of St. Hieronymous (Lospen, Leiden) and others who live there may maintain the drain (verlaet) at their own cost on condition that they keep it closed whenever the water in the Oude Rijn is higher than the binnenwater so that no land gets flooded.
 

 

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1434.00.00 Permission for Zoeterwoude to build a road near the St. Nicholas House.
 
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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.
 

 

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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
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1447.02.28 Must not harrass officials performing their duty
 

 

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  slingerkade  
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1400.ca Authorization: to construct and/or maintain the Slingerkade running between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht.
 
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1454.10.15 Permission for Hazerswoude to put fences on the Slingerkade, which ran between Zuid-Waddinxveen and Moordrecht..
 

 

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1405.09.29 Copy (badly damaged) of a charter issued by Margaret of Cleves [Margaretha van Kleef] in which the ambachten of Sloten, Polanen and Osdorp, along with all ambachten between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam responsible for maintenance of the Spaarndammerdijk, must obey the keur calling for the common repair of dike breaks and prevent the formation of walen (deep washouts).
 
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1421.05.25 Sloten and Osdorp agree to honor the heemraad's decisions concerning the Hoppen.
 
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1421.05.25 Order the restoration of the Hoppen, especially its shoring or plaatwerk, in Sloten and Osdorp to the specifications indicated.
 
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1421.05.25 Instructions concerning size of work force required from Sloten and Osdorp, presumably to work on the Hoppen.
 
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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.
 
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1421.05.25 Order to pay for dirt according to the value established by the the heemraden
 
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1421.05.25 Order to pay for the costs of shoring and dirt according to what the heemraden establish.
 
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1440.08.31 Heemraden arbitrate a dispute between Amsterdam and Sloten about payment of aardgeld.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1464.06.27 Limit peat digging in Sloten and Ostdorp to no closer than 100 rods from the lakes and 500 rods from the dike.
 
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1477.12.29 Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
 

 

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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.
 
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1431.09.05 Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
 
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1431.09.05 Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
 

 

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1460.05.06 Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
 

 

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1438.06.24 Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
 
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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.
 

 

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1253.04.09 Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1403.10.08 Authorization: a sluice in the Rijndijk between the Mye bridge and the church at Leiderdorp.
 
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1406.06.10 Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization: lease out the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam for two years beginning 1 May 1407 and ending 1 May 1409; includes particulars of the lease as well as the purchase of wine (wijnkoop) for sealing the terms.
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization, continued: lease of the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1421-1434 How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1434.00.00 How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
 
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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.
 
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1436.00.00 Heemraden instruct the dijkgraaf to block the drainage canal and sluice at Diewer Stientgens that serves Hazerswoude and Benthuizen.
 
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1436.10.01 Order that all openings including sluices in the Rijndijk be closed within 14 days.
 
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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
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.
 
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1437.06.29 Prohibition against mooring boats to the shoring of the sluices at Spaarndam.
 
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1437.06.29 Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.29 Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
 
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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.
 
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1439.07.06 Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 
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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.
 
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1442.06.26 Alphen may build a bridge with two sluices across the old Kerksloot.
 
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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.
 
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1443.03.13 Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
 
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1443.05.19 Order the residents of Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout to repair the sluis doors in the Voorhouterwetering in Sassenheim and Warmond.
 
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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1444.02.24 Regulate fishing in the Spaarndam sluices.
 
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1444.03.04 Permission for the schout of Leiderdorp to announce and carry out the inspection of the sluices and culverts between the Does bridge and the ambacht of Koudekerk.
 
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1444.03.04 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Zijlsluis and the Zijlbrug, both in bad condition, to be completed by the middle of May.
 
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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.
 
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1444.10.06 Settlement of a dispute over maintenance of part of the Kostverloren dike which was completely rebuilt: a pole must not be placed in the middle where the former sluice lay; maintenance henceforth to be carried out according to the provisions of the documents issued in this matter, outside the expense of the Rijnland.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1444.10.10 Outline the duties or obligations of the schout and heemraden of Leiderdorp
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1446.05.03 Order that the sluice on the end of the Schinkeldijk remain closed so no water can enter Rijnland through it
 
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1446.06.28 Permission for Hazerswoude to eliminate a sluice in the Oostkade on the Hoge Rijndijk for lack of need.
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1455.07.01 Verdict in a long-running dispute between Willem van Oestgeest and his companions and the officials of Oegstgeest concerning morgengeld, penninggeld, and more; the hoogheemraden side with the officials of Oegstgeest.
 
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1456.05.04 Permission to keep the bridge in front of the Rijnsburgerpoort (Leiden) open. The regulars of (Maridn)poel and the brothers of St. Hieronymous (Lospen, Leiden) and others who live there may maintain the drain (verlaet) at their own cost on condition that they keep it closed whenever the water in the Oude Rijn is higher than the binnenwater so that no land gets flooded.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1458.03.14 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
 
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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).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1469.05.02 Invitation to tender offers for reconstruction of the Riedwijk, Vriesekoop, Ter Aar, Schoot, Albrechts Vierendeel van Bosch, and Outshoorn sluice and the Alphen, Leiderdorp, Warmond, Groenswaard, and Hillegom sluis, with specifications for the work to be done. Dirk Janszoon van der Hoerne took on the Riedwijk sluice for 582 lb., and Willem Reynerszoon took on the Alphen sluice for 598 lb.
 
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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.
 
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1472.03.03 Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
 
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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).
 

 

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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.
 

 

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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.
 
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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.
 
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1450.06.30 Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
 
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1451.10.05 Order Boskoop, Hazerswoude, Snijdelwijk, Groenswaard, and Poelien to repair the shoring below the house of Jan Vechterszoon before 1 November. From then on Jan must maintain it at his own cost.
 
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1457.03.01 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
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).
 

 

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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.
 
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1330.07.12 Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
 
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1422.00.00 Dijkgraaf and heemraden have inspected the damage to and suffering of the good people of Rijnland with respect to their hydraulic works because of warfare (especially south of the Rijn and along the Goude) and they now appoint special lower heemraden in the named ambachten to oversee the reconstruction and to issue keuren, orders, and commands to that effect as necessary.
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1450.06.30 Settlement of a dispute between Poelien, Groenswaard, and Snijdelwijk, plaintiffs, against Alphen and Boskoop, defendents, concerning maintenance of the Poelienwatering. The canal, near Gouda, has remained useless and uninspected since the war, and the plaintiffs want the old rules (costumen) to be reinstated and enforced. Alphen, referring to old charters, claimed the right to block outside water from entering their waterschap, but the plaintiffs maintained on the basis of the same charters that according to common law they have a right to drain their land as with all other land within the borders of Rijnland -- plaintiffs, after all, contribute to Rijnland's works. The hoogheemraden sided with the plaintiffs -- latter may drain the area 170 morgen large (measured by Ghijstgen the surveyor, and they must make put an embankment around the upper veen to prevent water from it flowing into the area authorized to drain through the canal in question.
 
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1451.10.05 Order Boskoop, Hazerswoude, Snijdelwijk, Groenswaard, and Poelien to repair the shoring below the house of Jan Vechterszoon before 1 November. From then on Jan must maintain it at his own cost.
 
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1457.03.01 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.
 
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1465.07.23 Permission for Snijdelwijk, Poelien, and Groenswaard to schouw (inspect and maintain) the Backwetering for the benefit of the common good.
 
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1465.07.23 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.
 
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1473.03.17 Dirc van Bosche, apparently the heemraad's assistant, acknowledged that he holds a hundred Rijnsche gulden that his late father, Pieter, also the bode, had collected on behalf of Rijnland. Apparently, he will pay back at the rate of 5 gulden per year. A note at the end says this document was replaced by another because Rijnland sold the obligation (mortgage) to Meeus Pieter Ruyscher
 
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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).
 

 

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1384.00.00 Apparently information concerning the handling (or mishandling) of certain properties in Katwijk, Leiden, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude held in trust for the benefit of the heirs of Aven Dirc Soytgens
 

 

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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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1286.02.18 Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
 

 

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1253.04.09 Incomplete translation of a charter issued by Willem II (1253) confirmed by Count Willem III in 1316 in which Willem II authorized the construction of a ship lock in the Spaarndam. Ships from Holland will pay tolls until the cost of the lock is recovered; other ships will continue pay tolls thereafter with the revenue collected to be used for the maintenance of the lock.
 
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1255.10.11 Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1255.10.11 Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1286.02.18 Copy of an original charter issued by Count Floris V confirming that the residents of the territory of Rijnland may construct and maintain a dam in the Spaarne, to be inspected annually by the dijkgraaf (the count's bailiff) and the heemraden and control fishing in the sluices. Further, the heemraden shall name their own replacements and the count shall confirm them by taking an oath of office within six weeks.
 
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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.
 
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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
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.
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization: lease out the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam for two years beginning 1 May 1407 and ending 1 May 1409; includes particulars of the lease as well as the purchase of wine (wijnkoop) for sealing the terms.
 
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1407.05.01 Authorization, continued: lease of the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam
 
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1416.01.09 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1421-1434 How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
 
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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
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.
 
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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.
 
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1434.05.01 Prohibit the stacking of freight on or dragging it over the shoring (plaatwerk) at or around the Spaarndam.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.29 Prohibition against mooring boats to the shoring of the sluices at Spaarndam.
 
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1437.06.29 Regulatation of boat passage through the sluices at Spaarndam: first to arrive is the first to go through.
 
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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.
 
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1437.06.29 Must pull mast in to six feet before entering the sluice at Spaarndam.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for reconstruction of a road or dike called the Wagenweg with dirt to be taken from the Droen.
 
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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
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1444.02.24 Regulate fishing in the Spaarndam sluices.
 
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1444.05.05 Reemphasize the prohibition against harrasment officials or workers performing their duty.
 
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1444.05.05 Order repair/reconstruction of the Schinkeldijk to same height as the dike at Koudekerk.
 
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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.
 
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1447.00.00 Order the seizure of loose livestock (schutten) against 2 sc. per head on the Schinkeldijk at Spaarndam.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1449.11.18 The hoogheemraden declare that, before 22 February 1450, Clais Dircxzoon must pay Claes Willemszoon for injuries done to the latter's son, Willem Claeszoon. The son, a skipper's helper, was injured when Clais Dircxzoon let the sluice door of the Grote sluis at Spaarndam fall while repairing the sluice.
 
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1450.05.05 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.
 
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1450.10.06 Order the buren of Spaarndam to reconstruct the wangen (wings) of the Grote sluis on behalf of the Capel van Spaarndam so that people can ride along it, along with a turnstile that it can be closed if necessary. The capelmeesters get to collect a quarter of a stuiver for every passing car or wagon.
 
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1451.02.22 Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
 
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1452.11.21 Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1456.10.05 All construction, growth, and debris to be removed from the Grote sluis at Spaardam.
 
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1460.05.06 Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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
1472.03.03 Order the repair of the sluices at Spaarndam before the St. Bartholomew's inspection (25 August).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1477.12.29 Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1484.02.24 Regulations for ships in vicinity of Spaarndam: anchor at least 16 rods distant; no fires on ships.
 
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).
 

 

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1450.10.06 Order the buren of Spaarndam to reconstruct the wangen (wings) of the Grote sluis on behalf of the Capel van Spaarndam so that people can ride along it, along with a turnstile that it can be closed if necessary. The capelmeesters get to collect a quarter of a stuiver for every passing car or wagon.
 

 

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Date Summary Rec details
1255.10.11 Copy of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
 
Date Summary Rec details
1255.10.11 Translation of the original charter issued by Count (and emporer-elect) Willem II in which he agreed in the future not to interfere in hydraulics within the boundaries of Rijnland without the consent of the heemraden of Rijnland.
 
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1405.09.29 Copy (badly damaged) of a charter issued by Margaret of Cleves [Margaretha van Kleef] in which the ambachten of Sloten, Polanen and Osdorp, along with all ambachten between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam responsible for maintenance of the Spaarndammerdijk, must obey the keur calling for the common repair of dike breaks and prevent the formation of walen (deep washouts).
 
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1405.10.05 Copy of an original charter issued by Duke Willem VI authorizing the bailiff (dijkgraaf) and heemraden of Rijnland to order all responsible for dike maintenance between Amsterdam and the Spaarndam to repair dike breaks to prevent the formation of walen along the Spaarndammerdijk
 
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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.
 
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1417.05.03 Order the seizure of any sort of livestock (schutten) grazing on the Hogen dijk because of the damage that they do to the dike.
 
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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.
 
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1425.06.24 Instructions concerning payments for dirt, where dirt is to be taken, and other matters related to repairing breaches in dikes.
 
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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.
 
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1431.09.05 Part of an on-going regulation of the Kostverloren dike, part of the sea dike at Amsterdam.
 
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1431.09.05 Aernt Vechterszoon acknowledges his rights and responsibilities in the Kostverloren dike at Amsterdam.
 
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1438.06.24 Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
 
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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.
 
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1445.10.05 No schouw of the Hoge Zeedijk or Spaandammerdijk because of disorder in Amsterdam.
 
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1447.11.14 Against Pieter and Clais Vogelair for destroying a turnstile on the Spaarndammerdijk.
 
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1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 
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1449.06.05 Prohibit grazing of livestock on the Zeedijk (Spaarndammerdijk) between Velsen and Amsterdam; those found will be seized (schutten).
 
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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.
 
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1451.05.04 Settlement of dispute between Mertijn Dircxzoon and his nephew, Clais Heijnricxzoon concerning responsibility for maintaining the shoring on the Spaarndammerdijk, behind the Kolk (Grote sluis), formerly maintained by Leimuiden and Ter Aar.
 
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1452.11.21 Hoogheemraden agree to summon witnesses to a hearing (dagvaarden) at Haarlem on 15 January 1453 to collect information and issue orders concerning how the breaches in the dike between Spaarndam and Amsterdam are to be closed.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1460.05.06 Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
 
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1464.06.27 Limit peat digging in Sloten and Ostdorp to no closer than 100 rods from the lakes and 500 rods from the dike.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1477.12.29 Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
 
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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.
 
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1477.12.29 All expenses that hoogheemraden incur while closing the walen in the Zeedijk will be distributed across the entire territory of Rijnland.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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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).
 

 

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1441.09.12 Order the cleanup of the Spaarne between Bamis (1 October) and Omnium Sanctorum (1 November).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 

 

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1372.00.00 Establish the amounts to be paid for dirt for dike repairs dug on the north and south side of Spaarneland respectively.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
 

 

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1416.01.09 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1416.02.22 Settlement of a dispute between Liclaes Dirc Feyen z. and Jan vander Meer over a dike in Spaarnwoude.
 
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1421.01.08 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1423.00.00 Settled dispute and made a pronouncement concerning it: the dispute was between the village of Spaarnwoude and the village of Hofambacht concening the sleeper (i.e., backup) dike and new dike at Spaarnwoude which is apportioned to Hofambacht -- 140 roeden of the dike lies in Hofambacht and the latter must maintain it in perpetuity according to the keuren that are made concerning it. Further, the heemraden pronounce that the land inside the inlaag should be treated the same as that outside it. And the land within the dike that belongs to Spaarnwoude shall be free of obligation to the dike in question. Should any unforseen things occur, then Spaarnwoude will participate as do the rest of Rijnland.
 
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1423.00.00 Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
 
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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.
 
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1425.06.24 Instructions concerning payments for dirt, where dirt is to be taken, and other matters related to repairing breaches in dikes.
 
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1426.09.26 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1435.00.00 Order Spaarnwoude to carry out its responsibilities with respect to the Nieuwersluis or face a fine of 10 lb.
 
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1437.00.00 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1437.00.00 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1437.06.21 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1438.06.24 Order turnstiles to be set on the Zeedijk to prevent wagon traffic on it.
 
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1438.07.01 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1438.ca Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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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.
 
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1441.06.28 Settlement of a dispute between Claes van Spaarnwoude and priest Jan Allairtszoon concerning lease of church property in spaarnwoude
 
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1445.10.05 Cancellation of the dijkbrief (diking contract) of Jan Allertszoon, priest of Spaarnwoude, because he had completed all the specified work.
 
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1447.00.00 Settlement of a dispute concerning payment for dirt used in dike repair.
 
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1450.05.05 Hoogheemraden authorized the moving of a turnstile on Mijchiels wael
 
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1452.05.02 Permission for Spaarnwoude to place a turnstile on the road behand Pieter Hillebrantazonns house.
 
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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.
 
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1477.12.29 Sloten to close waal at Pieter Cillen's wharf, Osdorp to close the waal at Gerijn Bruynen, and Spaarnwoude, Houtrijk, and Hofambacht to close the waal in Houtrijk behind Gogenct. They will do this without help from others because of the difficulty getting there.
 

 

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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.
 

 

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1452.05.02 Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael.
 

 

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1452.05.02 Prohibit removal of dirt, grazing of livestock, or removal of sod outside the Spaarnwoudersluis as far as Florijs van Spaarnwoude's Wael.
 

 

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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.
 
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1441.06.28 Settlement of a dispute between Claes van Spaarnwoude and priest Jan Allairtszoon concerning lease of church property in spaarnwoude
 
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1443.02.24 Continued artibration of dispute between Claes van Sparenwoude and priest Jan Allertzoon with copies of various related documents.
 

 

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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.
 
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1437.00.00 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1437.06.21 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1438.07.01 Verdict in a dispute concening aardhaling and aardgeld in Sparenwoude between Rijnland and the heirs of Vrank van Zanen who own the land (and thus are also responsible for the obligations associated with it).
 
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1449.06.05 Permission to put a sluice [zijl] through the Spaarndammerdijk between Florijs[van Sparenwoude]waal and Mijchielswaal.
 

 

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1447.00.00 Settlement of a dispute concerning payment for dirt used in dike repair.
 

 

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1460.05.06 Hoogheemraden order those responsible for keeping livestock from the Spaarndammerdijk (the sea dike running from Spaarndam to Amsterdam) to appear before them and declare openly what they have done with respect to enforcing the grazing prohibition and that they will enforce the prohibition by fining those who disobey and keep the turnstiles that prevent access in good working order.
 

 

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1330.07.12 Requirement that the Hoge Rijndijk, running along the left or south bank of the Oude Rijn, from Zwammerdam to Katwijk, be maintained at 5 feet (roede voete) high and 5 feet wide and lying 2 feet from the water's edge.
 
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1406.06.10 Authorization of canal: from the Noordkade to the city of Leiden; with two bridges with sluices
 
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1408.06.11 Arbitration of a dispute that Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, and Voorhout had with Lisse concerning a canal named the Delft.
 
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1421-1434 How the Woerdersluis at Spaarndam is to be maintained: specifications, etc.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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).
 
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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.
 
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1434.00.00 How the Gouwesluis is to be reconstructed and maintained..
 
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1435.00.00 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Heimansbrug.
 
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1439.07.06 Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 
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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.
 
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1440.04.01 Order the construction/reconstruction of the embankment between Zoeterwoude and the Zoetermeer.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for repair of the Alkemadersluis
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for repair of Aalsmeerdersluis.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Haarlemmersluis in the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Grote Sluis in the Spaarndam.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the reconstruction of the ship lock (Kolksluis) in the Spaarndam: haul in dirt; repair shoring.
 
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1443.05.19 Specifications for the construction/reconstruction of the new sluice known as the Hogesluis
 
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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.
 
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1444.03.17 Specifications for rebuilding of the Alphen sluice in the Spaarndam
 
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1445.04.05 Specifications for reconstruction of the Kleine Zijlbrug
 
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1446.02.27 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Gouwe sluice at Alphen
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1447.00.00 Order the Kerksloot near Haarlem to be restored to one roede wide and as deep as is thought necessary.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1454.10.08 Permission for brothers of St. Heronimous in Leiden to construct a water connection to the Oude Rijn along with a bridge in the Oude Weg for better access to their monastery.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1457.05.03 Order the rerouting and repair of the Heerweg near the church in Nieuwerkerk because of destruction by water of the lakes.
 
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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.
 
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1458.03.14 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
 
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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).
 
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1460.02.26 Order the restoration of the Rijndijk along both banks to be maintained at minimally 18 roede feet wide, and all plantings that have impinged on this width must be removed. Reiteration of earlier orders.
 
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1460.03.20 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.
 
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1461.10.13 Permission for Willem van der Does to construct a stone bridge 14 feet wide in the Rijndijk, next to his house in Leiderdorp, and maintain it at his own expense.
 
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1462.10.09 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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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1480.05.09 Permission for kerkmeesters of Hillegom to dig a ditch 6 feet with through their land that lies along the lake.
 
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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.
 
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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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1436.02.28 Regulate how the scout and heemraden of Lisse must inspect the oude beek in the oude veen which drained into the lakes and apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen).
 

 

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  speertgenszoon  
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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).
 

 

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  splinters ambacht  
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1458.03.14 Specifications for the reconstruction of the Alkmade [Oegstgeest, Lisse, Voorhout, Vennep, and Splinters Ambacht] sluice, to be completed by St. Bartholomew's day (25 August). Adriaen Ghysbrecht and Engebrecht Pieterszoon took on the contract for 685 lb., with Gerijt Rijswijck, Willem vander Does, Florijs Janszoon van Tol, and Ysbrant Symonszoon standing as surety for them, with Zeger Staeszoon as carpenter.
 

 

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  splinters ambacht uten waard  
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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.
 
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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
 

 

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  splinters voet  
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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.
 

 

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  spoelwijk  
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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.
 

 

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  spoy  
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1407.05.01 Authorization: lease out the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam for two years beginning 1 May 1407 and ending 1 May 1409; includes particulars of the lease as well as the purchase of wine (wijnkoop) for sealing the terms.
 

 

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  spoyen  
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1407.05.01 Authorization, continued: lease of the ship lock (Spoy) at Spaarndam
 
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1443.10.01 Municipal officials of Haarlem and Leiden complained in front of the governor of Holland, lord of Lalaing, about Rijnland's attempts to collect levies from the cities despite their charters which they claim exempt them from such payments. Rijnland countered with charters claiming such authority and also referred, at the very end, to a similar case with Amsterdam in which, presumably Rijnland's claims were upheld.
 
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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.
 

 

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  stadhouder  
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1469.09.28 Copy of a charter from Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to the hoogheemraden of Rijnland concerning the need to prosecute those digging peat too closely to the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) . The heemraden should not allow digging within 4 roeden; an old charter set at least a buffer of 10 roeden which must be maintained and the landscheiding itself is to be 10 feet wide.
 

 

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  staende touw  
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1438.02.25 Order everyone to remove all fishing apparatus and other equipment from the Oude Rijn within 14 days.
 
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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.
 

 

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  staesgis stege  
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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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  stempels  
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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.
 

 

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  sticht  
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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.
 

 

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  stijlen  
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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.
 

 

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  stoeling  
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1423.00.00 Followup to dispute between Hofambacht and Spaarnwoude over maintenance requirements of a dike and sleeper dike.
 
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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.
 
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1441.06.28 Zoetermeer has set an example of how the apportion maintenance responsibilities (verhoefslagen) should be done.
 

 

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  stompwijc  
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1443.03.13 Order Zoeterwoude and Voorschoten to repair the dike breach at Stompwijk (presumably along the Zoetermeer).
 

 

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  stompwijk  
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1437.03.12 Ordered closing of all breaches in the Stompwijkerwech by Easter (March 31).
 
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1443.03.13 Permission to take hydraulic measures in Stompwijc as long as they cause no damage to Boudwijn van Zwieten.
 
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1451.10.05 Permission to Dirc Willem Aelbrechtszoon of Stompwijk to put a culvert under the road in front of his house.
 
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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.
 

 

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  stompwijkerweg  
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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.
 

 

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  stone bridge  
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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.
 
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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.
 
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1461.10.13 Permission for Willem van der Does to construct a stone bridge 14 feet wide in the Rijndijk, next to his house in Leiderdorp, and maintain it at his own expense.
 
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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.
 
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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)
 

 

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  stoppen van watergangen  
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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.
 
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1451.02.22 Hoogheemraden agree to free residents of Hogeveen between Benthorn and Waddinxveense greppel and between the landscheiding (watershed embankment between Rijnland on the one side and Delfland and Schieland on the other) and the count's greppel of Hazerswoude from paying morgengenld because the later have paid 60 English nobels which heemraden have invested in land purchased from Adriaen van der Meije and Jan Splinterszoon located in Alphenerhorn. The residents had insisted they were not required to pay morgengeld because of a charter from Duke Albrecht. This agreement came about because of the arbitration of the stadhouder and Raad of Holland.
 
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1451.06.29 Order the baliuw of Hazerswoude to summon the opponents of keeping the Dirc Doedenwatering open to come forward with a verklaring (legal argument) of why they oppose the measure.
 

 

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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
 

 

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  survey  
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1443.03.13 Declare that the measurements taken at Hazerswoude shall stand as authentic and be recorded in three books.
 
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1443.03.13 Regulation of a dispute with Woerden concerning how land is measured and morgengeld is assessed.
 

 

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  swet  
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1399.03.08 Authorization: construction of and specifications for the Barrepolder and the Wilk canal.
 
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1399.03.08 Authorization: construction of and specifications for a sluice in the Wilk canal.
 

 

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  symon brunincs  
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1439.07.06 Order construction of a waterway (the Zandsloot) at Katwijk
 

 

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  symon claeszoon  
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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.
 

 

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  symon corneliszoon  
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1533.03.14 Schout and villagers of Alphen farm out the Goudkade and Binnekade to Jacob Janssoen Moel and his heirs.
 

 

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  symon die volre  
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1431.00.00 List of individuals banished in 1431
 

 

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  symon eggertszoon  
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1453.02.25 Written arguments that were part of longer processes involving Daem Janszoon and also Sasbout Aelwijnszoon against Vranc Jacobszoon and Eggert Vranckenszoon concerning levies and dues in Zegwaard.
 

 

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  symon heye airntszoon, dijkgraaf  
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1460.04.20 Offers to the residents of Waddinxveen above the Backwatering (i.e., Zuid Waddinxveen) the right to drain via the Alphen wetering (canal from the Oude Rijn to the IJssel at Gouda).
 

 

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  symon heynricszoon  
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1442.05.01 Symon Heinricxzoon and associates can disassociate themselves from Valkenburg in matters of drainage.
 

 

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  symon suytvoet  
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1417.ca List of those in Heemstede who were delinquent in paying their morgengeld.
 

 

 

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