1696- Group action of pottery owners?

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Dear Anne, a quick look shows me you are right in wanting  to use this document. The people from delft are described as coopluijden ende plateelbackers, they wait for payment from an Amsterdam merchant, Jacobu de Grae,  who has died. He had to pay for the delivery Delft porcelain. Their action is now also against the widow of this merchant. As far as I can see they reach an agreement with due respect for the particular circumstances of Jannetje Abrahams.

Hi Anne,

The transcription and translation below (please forgive me any typos and the translation being sometimes a bit crooked).
In short: it is an agreement between a group of creditors and Jannete Abrahams, mother of Jacobus de Grae. Jacobus de Grae apparently had a large debt. In the agreement, parties agree to settle with a decreased payment to each creditor of 65 guilders for each 100 guilders owed. This 65 guilders may be partly in the form of pottery and porcelain still to be found with Jacobus de Grae. In this way, the creditors do not receive their full credit back, but at least some of it.

Op huyden den XIIIen maart 1696
compareerden voor mij, Adriaen Leeuwenhoeck, not(ari)s
publycq, bij den Hove van Holland geadmitteerd, binnen der
stadt Delft residerende, en(de) voor de naergenoemde getuygen
s(eigneu)rs Adrianus Cocx, Lamberrtus van Eenhoorn,
Hermanus Groothuijsen, Gijsbertus van Veen, Adriaen Pijnaecker,
Jacob Pijnaecker, Gerard P(iete)rs Lam en(de) Louijs Victors; item
juff(rouw)e Petronelle van Deijssel, wed(uw)e van Leenderd
van der Leth, koopluyden en(de) plateelbackerts binnen deser stadt,
alle Crediteuren van Jacobus de Grae, wonende tot
Amsterdam ter eenre en(de) Jannetie Abrahams, wed(uw)e van P(iete)r
Jacobs de Grae, wonende tot Amsterdam, was moeder vanden
voorn(oemde) Jacobus de Grae, ter andre sijde, ende v(er)claerden
overeengecomen te wesen dat sij comparante Jannetie
Abrahams aen de opgemelte respective eerste comparanten
sal betalen een
somme van vijff ende tsestigh g(u)l(den) tot XX st(uyvers) t stuck
van yder honderd, en(de) obversulcx tegens 65 g(u)l(den) ten honderd,
nopende de respective pretention dewelcke haer eerste
comparanten volgens hunne schuldregisters over en(de) tersake
van geleverde Delffse porceleynen en(de) aerdewerck ten
lasten vanden voorn(oemde) haer latest comparantes zoon Jacobus
de Grae isjn competeren(de), welcke somme van penningen
de voorn(oemde) comparante Jannetie Abrahams sal moeten ende bij
desen belooft aen de opgemelte eerste comparanten te
sulle voldoen en(de) te betalen huyden over drie maenden sonder
langer daer mede te sullen mogen dilayeren, dat
sijluyden eerste comparanten sullen moeten en(de) bij desen beloven
aen de opgemelte comparante Jannetie Abrahams op de
voldoeninge van de voors. somme van 65 g(u)l(den) ten honderd, te
geven cessie van haere respective pretention ten lasten
van(den) voorn(oemde) Jacobus de Grae, ende dat sij comparanten
in minderinge van de voors. uytgelooffde pen(ningen), soo
drae sij mette vorder crediteuren oock sal wesen v(er)accordeerd
en(de) soo in staat sijn om(m)e 't volgende te presteren, te moeten
aennemen yder soodanige poreceleyne en(de) aerdewerck als elck
van hun eerste comparanten aen(den) voornm(oemde) Jacobus de Grae
hebben gelev(er)t, en(de) nogh bij hem bevonden sullen werden
---
ten soodanigen prijse als sijluyden eerste comparanten
volgens schuldregister de respective soorten aenden
voorn(oemde) Jacobus de Grtae hebben v(er)kogt ende geleverd,
soo dattet schone(n) voor schoon en(de) het interdeus
voor interdeus sal warden aengenomen, waermede sijluyden
eerste comparanten bij desen beloven te sullen nemen
contentement en(de) v(er)genogen, sonder eenige v(er)dre preten-
tien ten lasten van(de) voorn(oemde) Jacobus de Grae te sullen
konnen ofte v(er)mogen te maecken, tot voldoeninge en(de)
naercominge van alle 't gene hier vooren bij henluyden
comparanten in elcx reguard is belooft, (ver)bindende sij
comparanten hunnen personen en(de) alle hare goederen, de-
selve onderwerpende den v(er)bande van alle(n) heeren, hoven,
regte(n) en(de) regtere(n) en(de) mede wel specialijck den opgemelten
Hove van Holland, consenteren(de) hier van actens gemaeckt
en(de) geleverd te warden in forma, aldus gedaen en(de)
gepass(eer)d binnen de opgemelte stadt Delft, ter 
presentie en(de) overstae(n) van Cornelis Leeuwenhoeck en(de)
Adriaen Overgaeuw, mijn not(ari)s clercquen, als getuygen ten
desen v(er)sogt.

{getekend: 
ijanneke abrams / wedu van pieteryacops
Lamb van Eenhoorn
pieternella van der leth
Harmen Groothuijsen
Louis Victor
ghijsbertus van veen
Gerrit Lam
Adr: Pijnaker
Adrianus Kocx
J. Pijnaker]

Transl.:

Today, on the 13th of March 1696,
appeared before me, Adriaen Leeuwenhoeck, public notary, 
admitted by the Provincial Court of Holland geadmitteerd, residing within the
town of Delft residerende, as well as before the witnesses mentioned underneath,
the esteemed gentlemen Adrianus Cocx, Lamberrtus van Eenhoorn,
Hermanus Groothuijsen, Gijsbertus van Veen, Adriaen Pijnaecker,
Jacob Pijnaecker, Gerard P(iete)rs Lam, and Louijs Victors; also
miss Petronella van Deijssel, widow of Leenderd
van der Leth, merchants and pottery bakers within this town,
all creditors of Jacobus de Grae, living in
Amsterdam, as one party and Jannetie Abrahams, widow of Pieter
Jacobs de Grae, living in Amsterdam, having been mother of the
aforementioned Jacobus de Grae, as the other party, and they stated
to have reached an agreement by which the appeared Jannetie
Abrahams will pay to the first party of appeared persons
an
amount of 65 guilders (each guilder valued at 20 stuivers a piece)
for every 100 guilders owed, and this 65 guilders for every 100 guilders owed,
because of the respective claims which the persons appearing as first party
have according to their registers of debtors for and regarding
delivered Delft porcelein and pottery have 
on Jacobus de Grae, sone of the latter party,
which monetary amount
the aforementioned Jannetie Abrahams appearing will have and 
hereby promises to pay to the persons appearing as first party mentioned above
on the day 3 months from today and she will not be allowed
to have any delay in this payment, and that 
the persons from the first party will have and hereby promise to
acquit he aforementioned Jannetie Abrahams appearing once they have
paid the aforementioned amount of 65 guilders for every 100 guilders owed
of the claimed debt owed by the aforementioned Jacobus de Grae, and that
the amount of 65 guilders will be decreased for each person
(as soon as Jannetie Abrahams will have reached an agreement with other creditors)
by the required acceptance of such porcelain and pottery 
as the aforementioned persons of the first party had delivered to the aformentioned Jacobus de Grae
and that will still appear to be in his possession
---
in accordance with the price the persons of the first party appearing 
had sold the goods to the aforementioned Jacobus de Grae,
in accordance with their register of debitors,
taking the neat things as neat things and the goods of low quality
as items of low quality, the persons of the first party appearing
promising that they will be
content and satisfied with this payment, and that they will not be able nor wallowed
to hold any further claims
on the aforementioned Jacobus de Grae,
and, in order to guarantee the full fulfillment 
of the aforementioned by each party, 
the persons appearing have each submitted
their person and their goods as collatoral,
this agreement being subject to any applicable lord, court,
legislation, and judges, in particular to the aforementioned
Provincial Court of Holland, agreeing that deeds will be composed of his agreement
and will be delivered in the proper judicial form; this hence has been done
and passed within the aforementioned town of Delft, before and in
the presence of Cornelis Leeuwenhoeck and
Adriaen Overgaeuw, my notarial clerks, as witnesses requested to act as such.

[signed: 
ijanneke abrams / wedu van pieteryacops
Lamb van Eenhoorn
pieternella van der leth
Harmen Groothuijsen
Louis Victor
ghijsbertus van veen
Gerrit Lam
Adr: Pijnaker
Adrianus Kocx
J. Pijnaker]