Robert Bunn 1622

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Just had a quick look. It appears that the document is an agreement between Robert Bunn and midshipsmen (adelborst) Abraham de Ruytter. Robert acknowledges to be in debt for 170 guilders and 16 stuivers and promises to repay this amount to Abraham de Ruytter in 5 equal portions, a protion to be paid every 3 months. The debt is for the purchase of a large amount of tobacco. Robert guarantees the payment by setting his quarters and belomgins as collateral, hence the inventory on the second page.

Thank you Rene - that is very helpful.

I would be grateful if someone could transcribe the list of goods on p.368 for me, especially the part which lists the tobacco pipes. Thank you.

Will do so later this evening or tomorrow morning.

Thank you René, that would be brilliant.

Full transcription will follow, but here's already the inventory part

Vijff ^tijcke^ bedden
Vijff pueluwen
Vijff oorcussens
Thien slaeplaeckens
Vijff deeckens soo Engelse als Spaense
Drie kisten met tabackxpijpen ende
noch veertich gros tabacxpijpen in de v[er]sz[eyde]
huysinge berustende
Acht tonnen omme tabacqpijppen te maecken
Drie schroeven
Thien tinne platteele, soo groot als
cleyn
Een wageschotte kist
Een coffer met leer becleet
Een mantel met een pack manskleederen
van gekoleurt Engels laecken
Een ijsere kacchel ofte stove

EN

5 pillow-slips
5 head cushions
5 earpillows
10 bed sheets
5 blankets, both English and Spanish
3 crates containing tobacco pipes as well as
another 40 oarties of 144 tobacco pipes laying in
the aforementioned house
8 barrels for the purpose of manufacturing tobacco pipes
3 screwes
10 tin plates, both large and small
1 crate made out of fine oak wood
1 trunk, leather-clad
1 mantel with a bundle of men's clothes
of couloured English wool
1 iron furnace or stove

Thanks René, this is really appreciated and very helpful.

Peter

Compareerden op huyden den IIIIen januari
anno XVIc^twee^ en twinttich voor mijn, Jan van
Aller Andriessen, notaris publycq, bij den Hove van
Holland geadmitteert, residerende binne de stede
Rotterdam, ende de getuygen hiernaer ghenoemt,
Robbert Bon, musquettier onder de compagnie
van den colonel Ogle, in garnisoen leggende
binnen deser stede, dewelcke bekende wel
ende deuchdel[ijck] schuldich te wesen Abraham
de Mijtter, adelborst onder de compagnie
van den cap[i]t[eyn] Canneloen, mede in garnisoen
leggende alhier, coste sijnnes actie, v[er]crijgende
de somma van hondert ende tseventich caorl[us]
g[u]l[den] sestien stuy[ver]s, spruyttende ^ten deelle^
van geleende pennin[gen], ende ten deele van
taback bij hem comp[aran]t van de v[er]sz[eyde] De
Mijtter gecoft ende t'sijnnen contentemente ontfangen,
daervan hij comp[aran]t bekent op dito metten
voorz[eyde] De Mijtter te hebben affgereeckent
ende gelquideert, welcke v[er]sz[eyde] somme van
hondert ende tseventich carol[us] g[u]l[den] sestien stuy[ver]s
hij comp[aran]t heeft beloof, soo als hij beloof bij
desen aen den v[er]noemde De Mijtter ofte sijnner
actie v[er]crijgende te sullen betaelen van huyden
date deses te reckenen in vijff eerstcomende
achtereenvolgende vierendel jaers, bij egale
portien ende gedeelten, sonder eenich langer
v[er]treck, v[er]bindende hij comp[aran]t tot
v[er]seckerheyt van den v[er]noemden De Mijtter
special[ijck] dese sijnne[n[ comp[aran]ts naedraegende
goederen, dewelcke jegenwoordich berustende
---
sijn in de huysinge / daerinne
hij comp[aran]t jegenwoordich woonnen[de] is#
#staende ende geleghen / achter de brouwerije van de /
Swarte Leeuw in de / Wijnstraet alhier

gelijcken / als hier naer specifice sijn gestelt ende
volgen

Vijff ^tijcke^ bedden
Vijff pueluwen
Vijff oorcussens
Thien slaeplaeckens
Vijff deeckens soo Engelse als Spaense
Drie kisten met tabackxpijpen ende
noch veertich gros tabacxpijpen in de v[er]sz[eyde]
huysinge berustende
Acht tonnen omme tabacqpijppen te maecken
Drie schroeven
Thien tinne platteele, soo groot als
cleyn
Een wageschotte kist
Een coffer met leer becleet
Een mantel met een pack manskleederen
van gekoleurt Engels laecken
Een ijsere kacchel ofte stove

Belovende als man met eeren alle de t'v[er]sz[eyde]
goederen tot v[er]seeckerheyt van den v[er]sz[eyde] De Mijtter
tot sijnder v[er]maninge in sijnnen handen te leveren
ende bij foute vandien dat den selven De Mijtter
sal v[er]mogen alle deselve goederen uut sijnnen huyse
te doen halen ende tot v[er]seeckerheyt van hem te
brengen tot soodanigen plaetse als 't hem gelieven
---
sal, sonder eenich figeur van rechten
te gebruycken, ende deselve onder hem behouden
omme bij foute van betalinge deselve goederen
als pant metter minne v[er]onderpant te mogen
v[er]cooppen# ende sijnne betalinge / daeraf prosequeren

sonder hem ges[eyd?]e voor den gerechte
alhier te betrecken, omme te sien concluderen
dat deselve goederen voor zijn achterloesen
v[er]claert souden worden v[er]bonden ende executabel
te wesen, v[er]bindende wijders sijnne comp[aran]ts
p[er]soon ende general[ijck] alle sijnne goederen,
egeene uutgesondert, stellende de selve
subject allen rechten ende rechtens. Ende
te laetsten, / soo bekende hij comp[aran]t mede
dat alle soodanige tabacqaerde als in
sijnne comp[aran]ts huysinge jegenwoordich leggen[de]
is, bedragende in waerde wel ter somme van
vierdalff hondert carol[us] g[u]l[den], dat de selve in
eygendomme is competerende den [ver]noemde De
Mijtter, sonder dat hij comp[aran]t daerop yet ter
werelt heef te pretenderen, maer allenl[ijck] onder
hem comp[aran]t berusten omme tabacqpijppen
voor den v[er]noemde De Mijtter daervan te
maecken, ende consenteerde hij comp[aran]t
mijn, notaris, hiervan te expedieren een
acte in forma. Aldus gedaen ten tijde
v[er]sz[eyt] ten comptoire mijns notari, ter presentie
van Jan Jansszen, laeckenbereyder, ende
#Lucas Marcheliss / hoe[den]stoffeerder, inwoonders
deser stede als getuygen nevens mijn, notario,
hier toe geregt.
[getekend: Robert Bonn]
[getekend: Jan Jans]
[getekend: Lucas Mesoeres]
[getekend: J: v: Aller Andriessen / 1622]

_____

EN

On this day, the 4th of January
in the year 1622, before me, Jan van
Aller Andriessen, public notary admitted by the Court of
Holland, residing within the city of
Rotterdam, and before the witnesses mentioned underneath,
has appeared Robbert Bon, musketeer in the army company
of colonel Ogle, garrisoned
within this city, who acknowledged to be well
and properly indebted to Abraham
de Mijtter, naval cadet in the company
of captain Canneloen, also garrisoned
here, the costs of his transaction, acquiring
a sum of 170 carolus guilders
and 16 stuy[ver]s, for one part originating from
money borrowed, and for another part because of
tobacco, bought by the appeared from the aforementioned De
Mijtter and received to his satisfaction,
of which the appearer acknowledges also to have
completed and liquidated this transaction with the aforementioned De Mijtter,
which aforementioned sum of
170 carolus guilders 16 stuivers
the appearer has promised, as he also promises by this document
to pay to the aforementioned De Mijtter or any person acquiring De Mijtter's
part of this transaction as of this current
date, this to be divided into payments of equal protions and parts,
each to be paid within the next 5 year's quarters, without any delay.
To assure the aforementioned De Mijtter of this, the appearer has specifically
set as collateral the appearer's belongings mentioned underneath,  
which belongings are currently
---
in the house where the appearer currently is living,
located and situated behind the brewery called
Swarte Leeuw in the street called Wijnstraet in this town,
just like as is specified below

5 pillow-slips
5 head cushions
5 earpillows
10 bed sheets
5 blankets, both English and Spanish
3 crates containing tobacco pipes as well as
another 40 oarties of 144 tobacco pipes laying in
the aforementioned house
8 barrels for the purpose of manufacturing tobacco pipes
3 screwes
10 tin plates, both large and small
1 crate made out of fine oak wood
1 trunk, leather-clad
1 mantel with a bundle of men's clothes
of couloured English wool
1 iron furnace or stove

[The appearer] promising as a man of honour to deliver all aforementioned
goods to deliver to the hands of the aforementioned De Mijtter as means of insurance
in order to be reminded of his due payments
and in case of non-payment, the same [De Mijtter]
will be allowed to have all these goods to be removed from his home
and to be brought to any location he pleases to act as means of insurance
---
without using any judicial vigour,
and to keep the same goods with him,
in order to sell these - in case of mispayment -
as collaterals and to cash his payments
without having to sue him in court
in order to be concluded that these goods would be
collateral and therefore allowed to be sold for the due payments.
Furthermore the appearer sets as guarantee personnally and in general
all his belongings (none excluded) that he legally owns or that are legally his.
Finally, the appearer acknowledges that
all the tobaccosoil currently
lying in the home of the appearer,
worth 350 carolus guilders, is
owned by the aforementtioned De
Mijtter, without the appearer having any legal pretense to this,
but to use it to manufacture tobacco pipes for the aforementioned,
and the appeared agreed to
me, as notary, to expedite
a deed in legal form. Hence was done at the aforementioned
date at my notarial office, in the presence of
witnesses Jan Jansszen, woolen-cloth preparer and
Lucas Marcheliss, upholsterer of hats, inhabitants of
this city, who just like me, notary, have been authorized to do so
[signed: Robert Bonn]
[signed: Jan Jans]
[signed: Lucas Mesoeres]
[signed: J: v: Aller Andriessen / 1622]

Thank you again. The extra information explains the slightly odd 'Acht tonnen omme tabacqpijppen te maecken' in that the tuns belonged to Bunn but the clay belonged to de Mijtter. Looks like he was gambling everything in the pursuit of a big profit from the wholesale tobacco trade. It seems it was a venture he didn't repeat.

It is always nice when you get references to things like 'Drie schroeven' as it gives an indication of the size of the business.

Thank you once again for all your help - you're most kind.