Need transcription help with a deed Elst, inv. 295, fol. 259, dated 26 May 1654

ORA Overbetuwe, Protocol van bezwaar Elst, inv. 295, fol. 259, dated 26 May 1654

Magescheit

Bij contract opgericht in forma van Magescheit den 26a

mey 1654 tusschen Hendricxken Roeloffszen weduwe van

za(lige)r Cornelis Vermeer ter eenre, ende Cornelis Vermeers

voorkinderen bij za(lige)r Jenken Huijberts v(er)weckt, wordt Jan

van Worckum als vader van sijne twee onmundige kinderen

bij Eijtgen Vermeer verweckt toegescheiden een hoffstede

gelegen in desen Ampte onder den kerspel van Elst in de

Buirschap Heedt, daer Oostwart naest gelant is Geurt Sas,

West: het weeszhuis tot Arnhem, Suidt: die Verloren Zeegh

ende Noortwart de Straet. Reg{istrat)a den 30a augusti 1670.

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Magescheid [1]

As by agreement drawn up as Magescheid on the 26th

of May 1654 between Hendricxken Roeloffszen, widow of

the late Cornelis Vermeer as first party, and the children procreated by Cornelis Vermeer

in his previous marriage with the late Jenken Huijberts, Jan

van Worckum, as father of his two children not yet come of age

he procreated with Eijtgen Vermeer, has been allotted a homestead

situated in this ambt [2] within the parish of Elst in the

buurschap [3] Heedt, in the east adjacent to the land of Geurt Sas,

in the west to the land belonging to the orphanage at Arnhem, to the south to the Verloren Zeegh [4]

and to the north to the common road. Registerd on the 30th of August 1670.

[1] Magescheid: voluntary allotment of an inheritance by and among the heirs

[2] Ampt or Ambt: type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities; comparable to a county in the UK

[3] Buurschap: very small settlement, usually comprising only a few farms and houses

[4] Verloren Zeeg: canal in the province of Gelderland, partly still in existence, partly disappeared