Inheritance Seizure Notice

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Ick Diderick Springorum to Boichem bekenne in desen brieue, dat Johan van Ghalen, Wessels sone, twe perde gesat hevet upp Diderick van der Lerte ind Reynken Binenbroick ind up den gene, den felle der erfftall van Ouete an tijen.

So synt beyde perde verkofft to Boichem, as dar gewonede ind recht is, ind hebn beyde gegulden twelff ind eyn ort gulden, dair sey beyde vor overgengen.

So heb ich dat ene pert verbodet vor tstich seynsche gulden, ind dat ander vor vnstich, so hebt dey vorgenoemde perde verdain an attinge, bodenloyn, beslage, Winkauf ind schribgelt, dry schelling.

So hevet Johan van Gale van dese perde gebort negen gulden myns vi d., so blyvet der summe noch hundert gulden ind vier d.

Ind want ick, Diderick Springorum, selven geyn segel en heb, heb ick gebeden Diderick Comynge to Boichem, dat hey syne segill to mere tuige hyran hevet gehangen.

Des bekenne ick, Diderick voirs., dat ick dat umb beden willen dederick Springorum gerne heb gedan.

Gegeven in den jair uns heren dusent vierhundert vier ind vyfftich,up ten sondach Letare.

Translation

I, Diderick Springorum of Bochum, declare in this charter that Johan van Galen, son of Wessel, pledged two horses to Diderick van der Leithen, Reinken Ulenbroick, and others who assert claims to the inheritance at Oefte.

Both horses were sold in Bochum, as was customary and lawful there, together yielding twelve Rhenish guilders and one Ort (¼ guilder).

One horse was pledged for six Rhenish guilders, the other for five.

From the proceeds, three shillings were paid in charges (messenger’s fee, seizure fee, Winkauf, and writing fee).

Thus Johan van Galen received nine guilders minus six deniers. The outstanding principal remains one hundred guilders and four deniers.

Because I, Diderick Springorum, have no seal of my own, I asked Diderick Conninge of Bochum to affix his seal here as witness.

This I acknowledge to have done freely and willingly.

Given in the year of our Lord 1454, on Laetare Sunday.