Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

“ Whereas it is daily observed that, contrary to Law and the Ordinance of the Lords States General and the Edict published A° 16, grave mistakes occur in the writing and drawing up of evidence of the truth by private individuals, who are neither bound by oath nor called by Authority thereto, whereby many things are written to the advantage of those who have the papers drawn up, interspersed with sinister, obscure and dubious words, oftentimes contrary to the meaning of the Attestors, to the great prejudice and damage of the parties ”

“ We charge and command every Inhabitant of Breuckelen to acknowledge and respect the abovenamed Jan Eversen and Huyck Aertsen as their Schepens, and if anyone shall be found to exhibit contumaciousness towards them, he shall forfeit his share as above stated. ”