grandfather Thonis Phillips Leeuwenhoek testified to marriage conditions with Agniesgen Bastiaens
Marriage conditions, or a pre-nuptial agreement (huwelijksvoorwaarden)
Thonis's brother, Cornelis Philips, was one of the witnesses.
Herman Cornelis van Overgaeu, notary inv. 1542, fol. 18
The three-page document begins:
In den naemens Heren Amen. Op huijden den XXll en Merty Anno XIVc ende veertien compareerde voor mij openbaer notaris ter presentie van getuigen ondergeschreven Anthonis Phillipsz mandemaecker, weduwnaer, toecomen Breugom, ter eene ende Angenitsgen Bastiaensdr lest wed. van Pieter Stevensz de Lanque, toecomen bruijt, ter andere zijde ende verclaerden van meninge te zijn metter anderen te treeden ende vergaderen in wetelicke huwelicken staten ende dienvolgende gemaact ende besloeten te hebben zeecker huw. contract Antenuptial en huwelixe voorwaerden in maneijren nae volgende In den eerste is wel expresselicken deselve toecomen huwelicx etc. |
In the name of the Lord, Amen. On today the 22nd March year 1600 and fourteen appeared before me, public notary, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses Anthonis Phillipsz, basketmaker, widower, future bridegroom, on the one and Angenitsgen Bastiaensdr, widow of Pieter Stevensz de Lanque. future bride, on the other side and declare to be of the intention [metter] others to appear and be given in lawful matrimony under the following ?? and to have limitations certain marriage contract and marriage conditions in the following manner ... In the first is well expressed the same future marriage etc. |