The Index of Provenance
A chain of ownership is not a story. It is a list of hands, and this house prints the hands.
— standing instruction to the compiler of the index, Register of Provenance, Corvisser & Lutt
This index enters every person named in the provenances of this catalogue, with the lots against which the name stands. It is compiled from the papers lodged with the sale, and where the papers are wanting, from the earlier lists. It is set alphabetically by the family name as the oldest paper spells it. Where two papers spell a name two ways, the index takes the older and prints the other spelling nowhere.
The house enters four things and no fifth. The name. The trade or office, a trade being a better account of why a thing was kept than any motive a buyer might supply. The manner in which the thing passed, where a paper shows it: by purchase, by descent, by gift, by pledge forfeit, by seizure, or received in circumstances not ascertained. And the lot numbers.
The house does not enter causes of death. It does not enter the sums paid at any transfer earlier than the last. It does not enter the affairs of families, the addresses of living persons, or the reasons a thing was sold, these being seldom in the papers and never in the price. It does not enter whether a person named is living. The compositor has been instructed to make no distinction of type between the dead and the living, this house having no office to determine which, and no name in this index is set in mourning rule.
An entry in this index is not a warranty of title and is not evidence of one. A name here means that a paper has been seen bearing that name against that lot. It does not mean that the person held the thing lawfully, held it long, or held it at all. Where a claim has been entered against a lot, the entry says so, and the claim stands referred to the Court of Wards under the order of that court, which is lodged with the sale and may be read at the pay table.
The names of bidders and buyers at this sale are not entered here, in this edition or in any later one. The book of the sale is kept at the pay table and is not an index. This house has twice been asked to strike a name out of an index of this kind, and has twice declined, an index from which a name can be struck being no index.
Names Entered Against Five Lots or More
| Name | Trade or office | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| Meinhard Quist | the late owner | 1 to 101 |
| Beatrix Boonk | Mistress of the Beguinage of St. Bavo | 31, 43, 45, 47, 53, 67 |
| Klaas Vantoc | pledge-broker of this city | 5, 19, 31, 42, 63, 88 |
| Hendrick Cranck | executioner to the city | 14, 32, 38, 44, 50 |
| Wolter Slecht | Waterbailiff, formerly | 11, 28, 33, 36, 65 |
| Ilsabet Vantoc | claimant; not an owner of record | 7, 19, 31, 42, 56, 63, 71, 88, 94 |
| Barbara Wett | claimant; not an owner of record | 12, 31, 42, 71, 89 |
| Casimir Ohl | dealer, of the Wolfsgat; formerly antiquary to this house | 62, 91 |
[in pencil] the dead are not marked here. neither is the one who is neither.
A to F
Baak, Ymke
Sworn midwife to the Beguinage of St. Bavo, forty-one years in that office, and keeper of the birth register in her own hand from 1571 until her hand failed her in 1585, when the register passed to the Mistress of the house. She attended the Kolkgracht at both births of that family and was paid the second time in plate. The leaf offered as lot 67 is entered twice in the lower half, once fully and once struck through, and a hand as steady as hers wrote both.
Bemmel, Griet
Mistress of a ropewalk behind the Rope Street, and the second buyer of the seven-branched candlestick at the second occasion on which this house offered it. She returned it within the month, paid the two marks of reinstatement at the table without argument, and asked for a receipt, which she has. She has since declined to be entered in the accreditation book for any sale in which the lot appears, and gives no reason for it that the clerk was able to write down.
Boonk, Beatrix
Mistress of the Beguinage of St. Bavo, in that office nineteen years. The greater number of the reliquaries in this sale came out of her sacristy by sale and not by gift, the sales being minuted, the minutes lodged, and the money spent upon the roof, the roof having been spent upon three times in her term. She sold the deceased six things in eleven years and required, at each sale, a written undertaking that the piece would not be broken up. The undertakings are with the papers. They bind nobody now.
Bril, Boudewijn
Spectacle-maker of the Staple Quay, whose punched mark, a lens between two rules, is on the frames of three lots in this sale. He ground for the surveyors, the notaries, and latterly for the Court of Wards, and he scraped horn as thin as any man in the northern trade. His widow sold the shop stock in 1624 to a clerk of the customs and the working forms to the deceased. Of the eleven pairs of spectacles listed in her sale bill, this catalogue can account for one.
Brust, Hanne
Head porter of this hall, eleven years in this room, five men under him. His mark, a cross within a circle, stands against every night's count in the book offered as lot 84, and against the bundle of paddles, lot 90, which he has carried into the Long Room and out of it at every sale of those eleven years. He was taught the shelves and not the letters. He knows the whole hall by the shape of a ticket, and he has never yet been shown to have set a thing on the wrong shelf, only under the wrong number.
Hanne Brust, Head Porter
Medium Humanoid (human), Neutral Good
AC 12 (leather apron) · HP 26 (4d8 + 8) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 17 (+3) · DEX 11 (+0) · CON 15 (+2) · INT 8 (-1) · WIS 12 (+1) · CHA 9 (-1)
Saving Throws Str +5, Con +4 · Skills Athletics +5, Perception +3
Senses Passive Perception 13 · Languages Common (he does not read) · CR 1/2 (100 XP)
Match by Shape. Asked for a lot by its number, Brust fetches by the shape of the ticket. If the number he is given shares a shape with another number in the hall, he brings the other one: he reads 6 for 9, 7 for 1, and 3 for 8, always in that direction and never the reverse. A creature that has watched one full round of his and succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check can predict which lot he will bring for any number named.
Porter's Carry. He counts as one size larger for carrying capacity, for pushing, dragging, and lifting, and for grappling contests made to keep hold of an object rather than a creature.
Barrow. Melee Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the target is pushed 10 feet if it is Large or smaller.
Set It Down. Brust places a held object of up to 500 pounds anywhere within 5 feet, without a check, without noise, and without marking the boards. He will not do this for a buyer, and he will not do it in the Long Room while a candle is burning.
Corvisser, Aleid
Night clerk and book-keeper of this house, twenty-nine, daughter of the senior partner, seven years at the ledgers. She keeps the book of the night inventory, the shipping book, and the register of presentation copies. Four of the lots against her name are the working papers of this hall and are in this sale because a sale of an estate carries the hall's own papers touching it. Lots 63 and 98 went into the printer's copy in her hand, and the chief appraiser has since asked the printer for the docket of that copy.
Aleid Corvisser, Night Clerk
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Good
AC 13 (unarmoured, quick) · HP 45 (7d8 + 14) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 10 (+0) · DEX 15 (+2) · CON 14 (+2) · INT 17 (+3) · WIS 15 (+2) · CHA 12 (+1)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +5 · Skills History +6, Insight +5, Investigation +9, Perception +5, Sleight of Hand +5
Senses Passive Perception 15 · Languages Common · CR 4 (1,100 XP)
Every Number in the House. She knows, without checking, where any lot of this sale stood at the last count, which shelf it was on, and who carried it there. If an object has been moved since, she knows that it has been moved before she knows by whom.
Spellcasting. She casts the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14). 1/day each: Attest, Mark of Custody, Nightward Tally.
Penknife. Melee Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. She has used it on quills, wax, and string.
Folio Reference. She cites a number that is written down somewhere in this hall. One creature that can hear her and that is pressing a claim, a demand, or an accusation must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or drop that line of argument for 10 minutes and be unable to raise it again in front of the same audience. Against a creature that is telling the truth and knows the papers, the reference fails and she knows it has.
Corvisser, Eustach
Senior partner of this house, seventy-one, forty-four years in the trade. He acted for the deceased at sales in this city and at three sales abroad from 1608, upon the usual commission, and the accounts of that agency are with the house and are not lodged with the sale. He entered the certificate admitted by the Court of Wards in Sprokkel 1636 and is named in the codicil at lot 86 as an executor. He has not sat in the Long Room since 1633. His signature sits there instead, and it is enough.
Eustach Corvisser, Senior Partner
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Evil
AC 11 · HP 52 (8d8 + 16) · Speed 20 ft.
STR 9 (-1) · DEX 10 (+0) · CON 14 (+2) · INT 18 (+4) · WIS 16 (+3) · CHA 17 (+3)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +6, Cha +6 · Skills Deception +9, History +7, Insight +6, Persuasion +9
Senses Passive Perception 13 · Languages Common, and the notarial hand of three ports · CR 5 (1,800 XP)
The Empty Chair. His written word binds this house whether he is present or not. Any undertaking he has signed is enforced by the offices of the city against the house, and against him only after the house has been exhausted, which has not yet happened.
Spellcasting. He casts the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15). 1/day each: Lien, Mark of Custody.
The House's Bond. Faced with a demand he cannot refuse, Corvisser passes the obligation to an officer of the city instead of discharging it. The demanding creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or find its business now lies with the Waterbailiff, the Court of Wards, or the Sworn Weighers, and not with this house. The obligation is real, it is now somebody else's, and it moves at the speed of an office.
Cane. Melee Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage. He has struck a porter with it once, in 1629, and paid him four marks not to say so.
Refer to Counsel. When a creature would compel him to answer a question of title, ownership, or account, he answers with a form of words settled by counsel. The creature learns nothing false and nothing new, and cannot press the same question again in the same conversation.
Cranck, Hendrick
Executioner to the city, appointed 1591, deceased 1622. Five lots in this sale came out of his house, and the city paid him by the stroke and left him to keep the count himself. He kept it in nail-marks on the underside of the chair offered as lot 14, in fives, and the last five are not scored through. His trade made him a collector of a sort: what he was given, he kept, and what he kept, he oiled, and there is not a spot of rust in the whole of his gear.
Doorne, Neeltje
Widow of a sworn surveyor of the Staple Quay. She pledged her husband's étui and a nest of nine boxes against a loan of forty marks in 1620 and did not redeem them; the pledge was declared forfeit in 1621 and both pieces passed out of her hands by that forfeiture and not otherwise. She came to this hall in 1623 to ask where the case had gone and was told, correctly, that this house did not then have it. She was not told who did.
Duym, Aefke
Apothecary of the Rope Street, four doors from this hall, and supplier of the Beguinage infirmary for twenty years. She dealt in what was left over from other people's illnesses and priced it by the ounce, and she kept a back shelf of preparations bought from the barber-surgeons which she would show to two customers in the city and no others. The deceased was one. The jar offered as lot 87 stood on that shelf for nine years, and she has asked, in writing, not to be told who buys it.
Feddes, Dirck
Schoolmaster of the Kolkgracht school, forty years at the desk, and the master of the deceased in his eleventh and twelfth years. He is entered in this index because the deceased entered him: the first page of the day-book, lot 56, opens with a payment of nine stivers to a schoolmaster for a book on the insects of the northern marshes, in a boy's hand, ruled twice. The book is not in this sale. The tin prize he awarded the same boy is not in this sale either.
Fray, Jonet
Draughtswoman to this catalogue, thirty-three, trained in the printing house of the Staple Quay and employed by this house from Grassmonth 1636. The plates of this catalogue are hers entire, in watercolour over silverpoint, each drawn from three positions and finished in the Presentation Gallery, and the captions under them are in her own hand and were set into the made-up copies before the engraver's register went to type. Her portfolio is lot 96. She is not at present in the employ of this house.
[in pencil] her entry is in the present tense. the compositor set it that way and nobody asked him to change it.
G to L
Grauwe, Douwe
Smuggler, of no fixed quay, taken at the customs cut in Fallmonth 1629 and hanged at the Wolfsgat gallows in the same month. The chalk offered as lot 46 was taken off him at the shed, before the trial and not after it, and was entered on the seizure list as one stick of chalk, of no value. It has since been valued four times. Nothing else he was carrying is in this sale, and the seizure list runs to eleven items.
Grave, Marten
Corn broker of the Staple Quay, and the fourth buyer of the seven-branched candlestick. He kept it eleven weeks, returned it, paid the reinstatement, and is the only one of the six who has since asked this house to be told who buys it next. The clerk of the sale room has recorded the request and has told him that the house does not give out the names of buyers, which is true.
Haak, Anselm
Merchant of the Kolkgracht, whose goods were sold in this hall in 1616 over four days, the sale running to two hundred and six lots. Four lots in this catalogue are traced to that sale. It is proper to note that nine dealers of this city cite the Haak sale for provenance rather more often than two hundred and six lots will bear, and that the printed list of it, with the buyers' numbers written in, is kept at the pay table and is lent to any person who asks for it at the table.
Haak, Jorrit
His son, merchant in the same trade until Lowmonth 1631, when his goods were assigned to his creditors and sold under the assignment by this house. The deceased bought two lots at that sale. One of them was the high-polished breast in which Jorrit Haak had been in the habit of showing his creditors to themselves at his own table, and it went for a third of what his father paid for the pair of it.
Halma, Maritgen
Copyist, of the lane behind the Weighhouse, sworn to the notaries of this city for engrossing. She trained three copyists in this city and would not sign for any of them, holding that a copyist who wants his name on a page is in the wrong trade. Her own hand is on the manuscript at lot 72, which is the one thing in this sale she is known to have written for herself. The bundle at lot 58 has been attributed to her, to her pupil, and to two other persons, on four separate occasions, by four separate dealers.
Hobbe, Wibbe
Bell-founder, of the yard by the Old Ground wall, four lots in this sale. He cast the small silver bell at lot 42 and the twelve musket balls at lot 34 out of metal of the same alloy, eleven years apart, and the cracked mould at lot 48 was his second attempt at the first of them. He would not take an order for a bell to be rung at a death unless the name was given him in writing, and the ledger of his yard, which is not in this sale, has one hundred and forty such names in it.
Hooft, Sijtske
Shipowner, of the Customs Quay, and owner of the Grieta Wend, from whose lazarette the strongbox at lot 36 and the sheaf at lot 37 were taken under seizure in 1619 and sold at the customs quay in the same year. She has never applied for the return of the strongbox. She has applied twice for the return of the letters of marque, and on the second occasion offered more for them than the box and the papers together fetched at the quay.
Immel, Steven
Cartographer and engraver, of the Staple Quay, who drew and cut the plates of the atlas at lot 77 over eleven years and printed it in an edition of forty. He spent his last two years upon a manuscript, offered here as lot 70, whose whole purpose was the recovery of a scraped surface, and he wrote at the end of it that the method was sound and the sheet was not. Fourteen copies of the atlas are known. This house has examined three, and the same six sheets are wanting from all three.
Kaltz, Geertruyt
Widow of Volkert Rietvelt, armourer, and mistress of his forge in the Wolfsgat from 1611 until 1630, in which time she was the only woman sworn to the armourers' trade in this city. She sold the deceased the corselet at lot 29 with the hole in it, described it in her own bill as sound, and was right: the hole does not go through. She held that a woman who cannot describe a fault has no business selling anything, and her bills are the plainest papers in this whole estate.
Kolde, Tibbe
Surgeon, of the lane by the Beguinage gate, and the third buyer of the seven-branched candlestick. He returned it in Grassmonth 1628 and was buried in Fallmonth of the same year, and this house prints the two dates in that order because that is the order in which the papers stand. He gave his reason for the return in writing, in three words, and the clerk of the sale room has entered the paper in the file and has not copied the three words into the book.
Lemmick, Trijn
Daughter of Hendrick Cranck, and after his death in 1622 the seller of his estate, which she sold in one afternoon in this hall to four buyers, the whole of it, tools and chair and sword together, and did not stay for the accounting. She kept his gloves until 1626 and then sent them to the deceased with a note of one line, which is with the papers of lot 38. She has been a widow of the Kolkgracht since 1630 and does not use her father's name.
Lutt, Perpetua
Chief appraiser of this house, forty-six, widow of Joos Marbeck, purser, deceased 1631. The descriptions in this catalogue are hers, written between Winemonth 1636 and Sprokkel 1637, with the thing in her hands and a glass upon it; the measurements are her own, taken twice. Her name stands in four provenances: the fair copies at lot 58, the seal matrix at lot 68, an unattributed manuscript at lot 78, and the withdrawn cabinet at lot 101. She has signed for the receipt of every lot in this sale, and for the withdrawal of one.
Perpetua Lutt, Chief Appraiser
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Neutral
AC 12 · HP 39 (6d8 + 12) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 9 (-1) · DEX 12 (+1) · CON 14 (+2) · INT 18 (+4) · WIS 16 (+3) · CHA 15 (+2)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +6 · Skills History +10, Insight +6, Investigation +10, Perception +6, Persuasion +5
Senses Passive Perception 16 · Languages Common · CR 3 (700 XP)
Taken Twice. Any measurement, weight, count, or material she states aloud is correct. She does not state an attribution aloud at all.
The Written Description. A description she has written and signed is received as the record by the offices of this city. Contradicting it in front of a commissioner, a bailiff, or a weigher requires a paper, not an argument.
Spellcasting. She casts the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15). 1/day each: Attest, Provenance, Seal Unbroken, Unwritten Hand.
Read the Description. She reads her own entry for an object in sight. For 1 minute, no creature that heard her can be deceived about that object's material, dimensions, or condition, and every creature that heard her is one step less certain of who made it and who owned it.
Appraiser's Rule. Melee Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage. She has never used it for this and would regard being made to as a defeat.
The Vendor's Account Is Not Before Us. When a creature makes a social assertion against her, her house, or a lot in her charge, she answers by moving it into a question of paper. The assertion is not denied and does not take effect; instead it becomes a matter to be lodged, referred, or produced, and cannot be pressed again until it is in writing. Against a creature holding the relevant paper, this reaction does nothing at all.
M to R
Marbeck, Joos
Purser, of the Kolkgracht, deceased 1631, twenty-two years in the northern trade and four of them in the Grieta Wend before her seizure. He is entered against the strongbox and the sheaf because his hand is in both: the box carries his inventory of its contents, written inside the lid in white lead, and three of the letters of marque carry his endorsement on the reverse. He kept the purser's rule that a thing not written down at the hour is not a thing.
Meerman, Egbert
Whaling master of the Bruinvisch, eight northern voyages, and the source of a good deal of what the dealers of this city sell as northern. He brought back the horn at lot 16 and the whalebone buckler at lot 35 himself, sold both across a table in this hall in 1622 without a bill of sale, and was paid in coin at the pay table. He would not tell a buyer where anything came from and did not pretend to a reason for it.
Mund, Sibbeke
Doctor of physic, licensed of this city, attending the household at Kolkgracht 14 in the last two years. She subscribed one of the three certificates in the sheaf at lot 79 and witnessed the testament at lot 86. She has stated to the clerk of the Court of Wards, in writing, that she attended in that house on eleven occasions and was admitted on nine, and that she was not shown the cellar on any of them.
Munck, Jelle
Gravedigger of St. Bavo's ground and of the Old Ground beside it, thirty-one years with the spade, and the seller to the deceased of such small metal as comes up out of a burying ground in the way of trade. The nail at lot 39 is out of the Wolfsgat gallows and carries a label in the deceased's own hand naming four men and a year. The coffin-plate at lot 85 was engraved to Munck's order at the usual charge, was paid for, and was never fixed to anything.
Nack, Rutger
Clerk of the customs quay, nineteen years at the shed, and a buyer at the smaller sales of this house for most of them. He bought the horn lantern from a maker's widow in 1624 and sold it on in 1630; he bought the watchman's rattle at lot 52 and kept it; and he was the sixth buyer of the seven-branched candlestick, which he held longer than any of the five before him and returned in 1634. He has been entered in the accreditation book for this sale, on the first day of view, in his own hand.
Nijs, Focke
Pledge-broker of the Wolfsgat, who took over the pledge business of this city after the fall of the older house and was licensed to it by the Chamber in Lentmonth 1623, the licence being of record and dated. The nest of boxes at lot 13 passed through his hands and out of them by ordinary sale. He has told this house, in front of the clerk, that he never at any time held any part of the pledge-book offered as lot 63, and that his own books begin in the year of his licence.
[in red ink] Nijs is honest and Nijs is also careful, which are two trades. The folios came to me from him after the dissolution and I sold them honestly and I have said so. Set his licence beside my account and you will find the year does not sit where the clerk would like it to sit; that is the clerk's affair and not mine. Wend. fo. 41. C.O.
Ohl, Casimir
Dealer, of the Wolfsgat, sixty-one, formerly antiquary to this house. Two lots in this sale came out of his stock: the interleaved inventory at lot 62, which is his own working copy with his own additions bound in, and the cabinet of admitted forgeries at lot 91, which was sold with his household goods at a sale in this city. He had the run of the Presentation Gallery on all three days of view, as any dealer of this city has, and he wrote where he stood.
[in red ink] Formerly antiquary to this house. Nineteen years, and the entry is eleven words. I catalogued four hundred lots in this hall and taught the appraiser to hold a glass, and she has given me two lines and a trade and a street. Put 1622 against my name if you are going to put a street against it. C.O. (Sprokkel 1637)
[in pencil] the year he asks for is the one year the printed text does not have. count the pages it should be on.
Casimir Ohl, Fallen Antiquary
Medium Humanoid (human), Neutral
AC 11 · HP 31 (5d8 + 10) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 11 (+0) · DEX 12 (+1) · CON 14 (+2) · INT 17 (+3) · WIS 11 (+0) · CHA 10 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +5, Con +4 · Skills History +7, Investigation +7, Perception +2, Sleight of Hand +3
Senses Passive Perception 12 · Languages Common · CR 2 (450 XP)
Held It in His Hands. Ohl has advantage on any check to detect a forgery, a cast, a marriage of two objects, a later ground, or a replaced part, and he will name the file-stroke, solder seam, watermark, or ground that proves it. He has disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks against a creature that is lying about a person.
Spellcasting. He casts the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13). 1/day each: Attest, Weigh the Unseen.
Appraise. He examines an object he can touch for 1 minute. He states its material, its method of making, and its age within five years, and all of that is correct. He then states who made it, who owned it, and why it was sold, and any of that may be wrong. He does not distinguish between the two halves of his answer, and neither does his voice.
Paring Knife. Melee Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage.
Wend. fo. When a creature states an attribution in his hearing, Ohl cites a folio of his own interleaved inventory against it. The creature must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or lose the room's belief for 10 minutes. If the folio he cites is one of the leaves bound in after 1620, the citation is false, and it works exactly as well.
Oost, Jacomine
Brewer's widow, of the Staple Quay, mistress of her husband's brewhouse from 1619, and the fifth buyer of the seven-branched candlestick. She bought it for the long room of the brewhouse, held it four months, and returned it by a carter, without coming to the hall herself and without a letter. The reinstatement was paid by the carter out of money given him for the purpose, and it was the exact sum.
Ostrem, Roelof
Engraver, of the Staple Quay, journeyman to Steven Immel for nine years and the cutter of eleven of the atlas plates from Immel's drawings, the division of the work being set out in the colophon. He signed his plates with a small o in the border. Of the six sheets that are wanting from every copy this house has examined, four are his.
Pluym, Abel
Bookbinder to this house, of the lane behind the printing house, thirty-four years at the press and the plough. He bound the atlas at lot 77 in 1621 in calf over boards and the interleaved inventory at lot 62 in the same year in half vellum, and both are sound and both are his best work. He washed and pressed the atlas sheets before binding, as a binder does, and he has said in this room that he found them already as they are.
[in red ink] The effacements are the binder's and not a later hand. Pluym scraped for the wash and scraped too deep, as he did in the Wendelmar boards, and he would not be the first binder to take a sheet down to the paper. He is an honest man and a heavy-handed one. That is the whole of it and the rest is talk. C.O.
Praal, Elsken
Actress and mimic, of the playhouse at the Wolfsgat end, celebrated in this city for taking off the voices of the magistracy at a shilling a head. Two of the admitted forgeries at lot 91 carry her certificate as the model who sat for them. She has been engaged by this house on four occasions to hold a paddle for an absent principal, which is lawful, and she is entered in the book against those numbers each time.
[in pencil] she was paid for a voice, not a face. ask which voice, and ask who paid.
Prillevits, Sibbe
Clockmaker, of the Sluice Quay, deceased 1601, and the maker to whom this city attributes almost every good movement of the last age. She took one apprentice only. Four lots in this sale are given to her in the earlier lists and are so described here. Her own list of her work, which she kept in the back of a psalter, runs to twenty-nine movements, and the dealers of this city have between them sold sixty-one.
Prillevits, Truwe
Clockmaker, of the Sluice Quay, the said apprentice, and afterwards mistress of her own shop across the same quay, where she worked until 1631. She signed her back plates with the letters T P and she filed left-handed. The sleeping draughtsman at lot 17 is hers by her own signature and by the deceased's receipt from her hand. She and her mistress did not speak after 1598, and the two shops stood ninety feet apart for three years.
[in red ink] Here at least the girl is named. Truwe Prillevits cut better wheels at nineteen than Sibbe cut at fifty, and every dealer in the Wolfsgat knows it and every label in this city says otherwise, because a dead name sells and a living one argues. Wend. fo. 112. Look at the click-springs and count the shops. C.O.
Quist, Hilke
Dealer in ship's instruments, of the Kolkgracht, mother of the deceased, in the trade from 1568 until her death, and the source of the two brass lots that open this sale. She dealt in tide-reckoners, astrolabes, and quadrants, bought wet goods off the quay and sold them dry and rated. Her shop books show that she took nothing on trust and returned nothing, and that in 1584 she closed the shop for eleven weeks.
Quist, Meinhard
The late owner. Born in this city in 1571, of the Kolkgracht, and of no trade: he neither bought to sell nor sold what he bought, and in thirty-seven years of collecting this house can find no record of his having parted with anything at all. He bought at ninety-one sales in this city, at eleven abroad by his agent, and out of the hands of families and offices where no sale was held. The whole of what is in this catalogue was in one house, and the house has six rooms.
[in pencil] read his entry last. it is the only one in the index with no trade against it and no date after the first.
Quist, Merrit
Sister of the deceased, born 1575, taken from the water at the Sluice Basin on the fourth of Winemonth 1584, aged nine years. She is entered here because her name is on the papers of three lots: on the register leaf at lot 67, in the midwife's hand; on the label of the empty pin in the moth cabinet at lot 3, in a boy's hand; and in the office copy of the tide table offered with the model at lot 28, against an hour, in no hand this house can name.
Ramsvelt, Doede
Waterbailiff of this city, in office since 1631, six customs men under him, and holder of this house's bond of five hundred marks. Three lots in this sale are offered under his licence, seized goods requiring it, and the licences are lodged with the sale. He attends on the second day, as the office has always done, and stands at the back. The ward-stone at lot 55 is offered with a note of his hand which this house has printed in full at that number and does not paraphrase here.
Doede Ramsvelt, Waterbailiff
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Neutral
AC 16 (breastplate) · HP 82 (11d8 + 33) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 16 (+3) · DEX 13 (+1) · CON 16 (+3) · INT 13 (+1) · WIS 15 (+2) · CHA 14 (+2)
Saving Throws Str +6, Con +6, Wis +5 · Skills Athletics +6, Insight +5, Intimidation +5, Investigation +4, Perception +5
Senses Passive Perception 15 · Languages Common, and enough of three trading tongues to hear a lie in them · CR 6 (2,300 XP)
Authority of the Port. Within Velhagen, his statement of a question of title is the law until an office overturns it, whether or not it is true. Creatures that live by the port's licences have disadvantage on Charisma checks made to deceive or intimidate him.
Six Men. He is accompanied by six customs men (use guards). While three or more are within 30 feet of him, he cannot be surprised and has advantage on saving throws against being restrained or grappled.
Multiattack. He makes two longsword attacks.
Longsword. Melee Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Seizure. He declares an object within sight seized for the port and chalks it. Until the seizure is lifted at the shed, any creature that carries the object more than 30 feet from where it stands is known to him, exactly, wherever it goes in the city, and every officer of the port is entitled to take it back by force. Lifting a seizure costs a hearing, a fee, and a paper.
Stamp Withheld. When a creature within 60 feet tries to move a seized or unlicensed lot out of the hall, he withholds the stamp: the creature's movement ends and it cannot pass a door of the building until the end of its next turn.
Reepmaker, Everhard
Sailmaker, of the Rope Street, and the first buyer of the seven-branched candlestick after it came out of the estate it came out of. He held it nine months, longer than any buyer but the sixth, returned it in Bloommonth, paid the two marks, and continued to buy at this house afterwards, which not all of the six have done. He has said, in the hearing of the clerk, that he has no complaint of the lot and would not have it in the house.
Rietvelt, Volkert
Armourer of this city, of the Wolfsgat forge, deceased 1611, and a maker whose work is known by the way he set a rivet and by nothing else, since he punched no mark in fifty years of the trade. The corselet at lot 29 is his, and the shield at lot 44 was faced and gessoed in his shop before ever a coat of arms was laid on it. He worked for the city, for the ships, and twice for the executioner, and he took payment from the executioner in tools.
Roskam, Nanne
Horse-dealer of the Old Ground road, and the man through whose yard a good deal of this city's second-hand harness, hawking gear, and armour has passed on its way from one household to another. He bought the falconer's hood at lot 24 out of the Chamber's sale in 1618 and sold it on in the same week at a profit of four stivers. He was the underbidder on the cuirass at lot 51 and has told this house he will be in the room on the second day.
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Sammen, Aldric
Harbour coroner to the Watermen's Guild, in that office twenty-six years, and the officer who views what the Sluice Basin gives back. He keeps the Ledger of the Watermen, from which the extract at lot 60 was made and sealed by him at the usual charge of two marks. The manuscript at lot 76 is attributed to him in the earlier list and he has neither claimed nor disowned it. He subscribed one of the three certificates in the sheaf at lot 79.
[in pencil] he charges two marks for an extract and he has been paid more than that twice by this house. see the account for sundry attestations.
Sipke, Sivert
Diver, of the Customs Quay, who went down on wrecks in the roads and in the basin for the Waterbailiff's office and for whoever else would pay him, and who was let down in a bell of the full size eleven times in one winter. The glass model at lot 6 was made to his measurements and by his instruction, and he complained of it to the maker in one particular, which is written on the bill and is the ballast. He was employed by the office in Winemonth 1635 and was paid for one day.
Slecht, Wolter
Waterbailiff of this city before the present holder, in office 1608 to 1630, and the officer who seized the Grieta Wend in 1619 and sold her lazarette at the quay. Five lots in this sale passed through his office, of which two, the working model at lot 28 and the four charts at lot 65, left that office without any order for their removal being of record. He is not living, and the office he held keeps no note of when a thing on his shelves became a thing in his house.
Sneek, Halvard
Agent, of no address entered, engaged by this house on the eleventh of Sprokkel 1637 to hold paddles for absent principals during the four days of the sale, at four stivers the day and his dinner. He was entered in the accreditation book on that day. He is entered in this index because a paddle is a lot in this sale and because the withdrawn lot stands in his name in the shipping book, where the withdrawal was written over the entry and not through it.
Halvard Sneek, Straw Bidder
Medium Humanoid (human), Neutral
AC 11 · HP 13 (3d8) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 10 (+0) · DEX 12 (+1) · CON 10 (+0) · INT 12 (+1) · WIS 13 (+1) · CHA 14 (+2)
Saving Throws Cha +4 · Skills Deception +6, Insight +3, Perception +3
Senses Passive Perception 13 · Languages Common · CR 1/4 (50 XP)
Bids as Instructed. He raises the paddle he is given, at the advance, until paddle 41 goes down. He does not know the reserve, does not know the principal, and cannot be made to reveal either, having nothing to reveal. A creature that questions him learns four true things and no useful one.
Named at the Book. His name, address, and references were written into the accreditation book by another hand. Nothing in this entry has been checked against a second paper, and the house has not asked for one.
Raise the Paddle. He bids. The standing price goes up by the advance and the room looks at him for as long as the candle burns.
Knife. Melee Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage.
[in pencil] he was named at the book on the eleventh. look at the hand that named him, then look at the codicil.
Snoy, Willemke
Cashier at the pay table of this house, nine years at the box, and the officer who receipts every price and every premium under wax. Her counter-signature is on the bill of encumbrance at lot 98 as witness only, the instrument being the partners' and not hers, and her mark is on the leather of the ivory hammer at lot 99, where the cashiers of this hall have marked in turn since 1601. She keeps her own book of the coin as well as the house's book of the account, and the two have never yet disagreed.
Sperwer, Warmond
Falconer to the Chamber of Ordinances, deceased 1618, thirty years with the birds, and the last man in this city to fly a hawk over the basin at the turn of the tide as a matter of office. The hood at lot 24 was blocked wet on his own form, and the grain of the form is inside it. The Chamber sold his gear in the year of his death and bought no more, the office having been discontinued and the perch in the Chamber yard left standing.
Steevens, Reinier
Porter of this hall from 1624, and one of the two men who made the count on the night of the ninth of Winemonth 1629, upon which night goods lying in this hall for view were found short in the morning. He is entered against three lots because his mark stands against them in the shipping book of that season. He left the employ of this house in 1631, of his own motion, and this house gave him a character.
Stoevel, Duifje
Lace-dealer of the Kolkgracht, four doors from the deceased, and a woman who bought automata because they drew custom into her shop. Three lots in this sale stood in her window between 1610 and 1621, wound at the half-hour by her girl. She sold all three to her neighbour in the space of five years and afterwards kept an empty shelf where the singing bird had stood, and told a customer of this house that she found the room quieter than she had expected.
Teel, Wibrand
Clerk of the Court of Wards, eleven years at that desk, and the officer who admits the certificates, seals the house of a deceased person, and enters the claims. Three lots in this sale are papers of his court: the sheaf of certificates at lot 79, the schedule of fixtures at lot 82, and the testament with its codicil at lot 86, all three released to this sale under the order of the commissioners. He writes what is brought to him and dates what he writes on the day he writes it.
Wibrand Teel, Clerk of the Court of Wards
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Neutral
AC 11 · HP 22 (4d8 + 4) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 10 (+0) · DEX 11 (+0) · CON 12 (+1) · INT 15 (+2) · WIS 12 (+1) · CHA 11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +4 · Skills History +4, Investigation +4, Perception +3
Senses Passive Perception 13 · Languages Common · CR 1 (200 XP)
Writes What Is Dictated. Teel enters in the court's record whatever a person entitled to depose says to him, in that person's words, and swears to nothing but the entering of it. He cannot be made to say that a thing he has written is true, and he cannot be persuaded to leave it out.
Not a Fighting Man. If attacked, he leaves, taking the file with him. He has never in eleven years been struck, and the reason is the seal on the file and not the man carrying it.
Embargo. Teel names one lot and enters it. Until the end of the scene, that lot cannot lawfully be sold, delivered, carried out of the building, or given as security, and every officer and servant of this house will refuse to touch it. The embargo does not stop a thief. It stops everybody else, which in this hall is a great many more people.
Take the Deposition. He writes down what one creature says. Thereafter the statement exists as a paper of the court and can be produced against the speaker, whether the speaker is living, dead, or a fixture that cannot speak at all.
Tjaard, Pieter
Master of the Nachtvogel, lost with eleven of her people off the outer bank in 1616, he himself being taken off the wreck and living nine years after it. Three lots in this sale are out of that ship or off his own person: the three sounding leads at lot 2, the re-engraved astrolabe at lot 10, and the boarding axe at lot 30, whose eleventh notch he cut ashore. He sold the deceased everything he had of the sea in a single afternoon and went inland to his sister's.
Toop, Bram
Crier at the rostrum of this house, six years, and before that crier at the fish market, where a man learns to be heard over water and slate. The manuscript at lot 64 is the working copy of his predecessor at the rostrum and is offered with the desk-board it was pasted into. The ivory hammer at lot 99 is the hammer of this hall and passes to whoever stands at the rostrum, and Toop is the eleventh crier to hold it. He does not bid, and by the custom of this hall he may not.
Bram Toop, Crier of the Rostrum
Medium Humanoid (human), Neutral
AC 12 · HP 33 (6d8 + 6) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 12 (+1) · DEX 14 (+2) · CON 12 (+1) · INT 12 (+1) · WIS 13 (+1) · CHA 17 (+3)
Saving Throws Cha +5, Wis +3 · Skills Insight +3, Perception +5, Performance +7, Persuasion +5
Senses Passive Perception 15 · Languages Common · CR 2 (450 XP)
Heard Over Rain. His voice carries through rain on lead glass, a working harbour, and a room of a hundred and eighty people. He knows, at any moment of a sale, which creature in the room last moved a hand and which is about to.
Spellcasting. He casts the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13). At will: The Crier's Voice.
Call the Lot. He names a lot and opens it. Every creature in the room that can hear him must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or give the lot its whole attention until the candle reaches the notch, taking no other action that is not a bid.
Hammer Down. He ends the matter in hand, whether or not the parties to it have finished. Any social scene in the room concludes at once with the position as it stands at the fall of the hammer, and that position is what the house writes down. A creature that was one word from getting what it wanted does not get it.
Ulm, Grete
Master of the Sworn Weighers at the Weighhouse under the copper roof, in that office since 1626, and the woman whose weight and assay stand against every ounce of silver in this catalogue. The balance at lot 5 is the office balance of 1602, sold out of the Weighhouse when the new beam came in, and it is offered with the set of false weights it convicted. The manuscript at lot 59 is attributed to her office. She was asked about that attribution at the Weighhouse and gave the weight of the manuscript.
Vantoc, Berthe
Wife of Klaas Vantoc, pledge-broker, and keeper of his shop books until 1618. She is named in this index because she is named in a paper: a holograph deed of gift, dated 1614, by which the deceased is said to have given her three things, of which two are in this sale. The deed was never performed on either side, and the things named in it stood in the Kolkgracht house until the seals went on the doors. The vendor's account is not before us.
Vantoc, Ilsabet
Daughter of Klaas Vantoc and Berthe Vantoc, thirty-eight, of the Wolfsgat, and the claimant in respect of nine lots in this sale, upon three papers: folios of her father's pledge-book, the seizure list of 1619, and the deed of gift above. The claims are entered, are referred to the Court of Wards, and do not stay the sale, the lots being offered without prejudice. One of the three papers is itself a lot in this sale, and she has applied to see it and has been shown it at the table, in the presence of a clerk, twice.
Ilsabet Vantoc, Claimant
Medium Humanoid (human), Neutral Good
AC 13 (studded leather) · HP 45 (7d8 + 14) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 12 (+1) · DEX 14 (+2) · CON 14 (+2) · INT 14 (+2) · WIS 13 (+1) · CHA 16 (+3)
Saving Throws Cha +5, Con +4 · Skills History +4, Insight +3, Investigation +6, Persuasion +7
Senses Passive Perception 11 · Languages Common · CR 4 (1,100 XP)
Three Papers. She carries her father's folios, a seizure list, and a deed of gift. While she has a paper in her hand that touches the matter in hand, she has advantage on Charisma checks and cannot be moved out of a room by any means short of force or an officer.
Tested. If Attest, or any comparable divination, is cast upon the deed of gift, the deed is shown for what it is. She loses the benefit of Three Papers for the rest of the sale, her claim upon four lots fails on the spot, and she does not raise her voice.
Claim. She names a creature and states her claim. That creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or hear her out to the end, in the room, in front of whoever is in it; on a success it must leave the room instead. Either way the claim has been made in front of witnesses, and this house writes it in the day-book.
Wheel-lock Petronel. Ranged Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/90 ft. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage. It takes an action to wind and load, and she has done it twice in the Wolfsgat and never in a saleroom.
Vantoc, Klaas
Pledge-broker of this city, licensed 1594, whose house was dissolved and its stock sold at a sale in this city in the year of the dissolution, the deceased being a buyer at that sale. Six lots in this catalogue are traced to his strongroom. He kept his pledge-book in folios of eight, entered the pledge, the loan, the term, and the forfeiture in four columns, and never wrote a name he could write a number for. He died two years after the dissolution, in the Wolfsgat, in a rented room.
Vlieger, Ebbe
Pigeon-keeper at the Customs Quay, whose lofts carried the corn prices inland and the answers back, and who was paid by four merchant houses of this city and by the Chamber. He kept eleven pairs and knew every bird by its flight. The clock at lot 26 hung in his loft where he could see it from the door, and he sold it to the deceased in 1631 when his eyes went, saying that he no longer needed the warning.
Vogelaer, Sander
Agent of the Staple Bank of Velhagen, and the officer of that bank in whose favour the instrument at lot 98 is drawn. The manuscript at lot 74 is attributed to his bank in the earlier list, and the bank has neither claimed the authorship nor denied it, its interest in the matter being of another kind. He attends sales in this city as a matter of business and does not bid at them.
[in pencil] he sits at the back on the fourth day and does not bid. he does not have to.
Wagenaar, Lijsbeth
Carter's widow, of the Rope Street, and the carrier who twice moved the collection of the deceased, in 1619 out of two rooms and in 1633 into six, with her own men and her own tilt-carts, and who was twice paid in kind for want of coin. The loom at lot 21 came to the deceased in part discharge of a carriage account of sixty-three marks. She has carried for this house for nineteen years and is the only carrier this house employs above the loading door.
Wendelmar, Reinout
Antiquary of this city, deceased 1614, and the compiler of the inventory of 1608 which every dealer in Velhagen quotes and few have read entire. He listed four thousand two hundred and thirty-six objects in eleven years, in one hand, and priced none of them, holding that a price is not a fact about a thing. Two of the lots against his name are objects he owned and two are papers he wrote. The interleaved copy at lot 62 is not his copy.
Wenninck, Adolf
Copyist, of the lane behind the Weighhouse, trained by Maritgen Halma and sworn to no notary, employed by the household at Kolkgracht 14 from 1628 to copy inventories, letters, and lists at three stivers the sheet. His hand has been claimed for the bundle at lot 58 by a dealer of this city and for the manuscript at lot 72 by nobody at all. The copying account of that household closes on the third of Winemonth 1635, and no discharge is entered against it. This name does not stand in the descriptions of this catalogue. It stands in the papers, and the index is set from the papers.
[in red ink] So the name may be printed at the back of the book and not at lot 58. I had letters from him and I know the hand: he copied for money and he copied what he was told, and both of those are in the letters. She has left him out of her descriptions and her own index has fetched him back in. C.O.
[in pencil] there is a collar in this sale with this name in it. the description gives the measure and the stains and stops there.
Adolf Wenninck, the Drowned Copyist
Medium Undead, Neutral
AC 12 · HP 65 (10d8 + 20) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 12 (+1) · DEX 14 (+2) · CON 15 (+2) · INT 16 (+3) · WIS 12 (+1) · CHA 11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +4 · Skills History +6, Investigation +6, Perception +4, Sleight of Hand +5
Damage Resistances cold, necrotic · Damage Immunities poison · Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 14 · Languages understands the tongues he wrote in life and does not speak · CR 5 (1,800 XP)
His Water Runs Where He Stands. The floor within 10 feet of him is wet, and stays wet for an hour after he has gone. Unattended paper, ink, wax, and chalk within that area are spoiled in 1 minute. The area is difficult terrain for creatures that cannot see him.
He Does Not Attack. Wenninck never takes a hostile action against a creature that has not laid a hand on him or on the document he is copying. He walks past guards, into strongrooms, and through a sale in progress, and he goes where the papers are.
Rest by the Name. A creature within 30 feet that speaks aloud the name written in the collar of the coat offered as lot 54 stops him where he stands. He finishes the line he is writing, sets the pen down, and is at rest. Nothing else in this catalogue does it, and no amount of damage does it for longer than a night.
Fair Copy. He copies a document he can see, taking 1 minute for a sheet. The copy is in a clerk's hand, on whatever paper is nearest, and it is true where the original is false: an interpolation appears struck out, an added leaf appears as an added leaf, a purchased attestation appears unsigned, and a name that has been written over another name shows both. The copy is not evidence in any court of this city. Every officer who has read one has believed it.
Drowned Grasp. Melee Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) cold damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be unable to speak or cry out until the end of its next turn, its mouth being full of water that is not there.
Wett, Barbara
Great-granddaughter of Gerbrand Wett, of the Kolkgracht end, and the claimant in respect of five lots, upon three grounds: that the orrery at lot 12 was sold in 1611 by a man who had no power to sell it; that the reliquary at lot 31 and the bell at lot 42 were taken out of her family's house in 1629 and have not been seen since; and that the candelabrum at lot 89 was left to the deceased for his life only and falls back to her family at his death. Her claims are entered and referred. She has not been shown the shipping book of 1629 and has asked for it three times.
Barbara Wett, Heir and Claimant
Medium Humanoid (human), Lawful Neutral
AC 15 (studded leather, buckler) · HP 60 (8d8 + 24) · Speed 30 ft.
STR 13 (+1) · DEX 17 (+3) · CON 16 (+3) · INT 13 (+1) · WIS 14 (+2) · CHA 15 (+2)
Saving Throws Dex +6, Cha +5 · Skills Athletics +4, History +4, Insight +5, Intimidation +5, Persuasion +5
Senses Passive Perception 12 · Languages Common · CR 5 (1,800 XP)
The Right of It. Upon the four lots her family's papers actually cover, she cannot be lied to: she knows when a statement about their ownership is false, though not what the truth is. Upon the fifth she is as wrong as anybody and holds it hardest.
Duellist. She has fought twice in this city, both times over a name, and both times the other party withdrew the word before the second pass.
Multiattack. She makes two rapier attacks.
Rapier. Melee Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 6) piercing damage.
Life Interest. She names a lot in the room and states the interest. Until the claim is cleared by the Court of Wards, any knock-down upon that lot is voidable: the buyer takes it, carries it, and holds it subject to being made to give it up, and every officer and dealer present now knows so. A creature that buys the lot anyway has advantage on nothing and one more enemy.
Parry. She adds 3 to her AC against one melee attack that would hit her. She must see the attacker and be wielding the rapier.
Wett, Gerbrand
Instrument-maker, of the Kolkgracht end, deceased 1596, forty years at the bench, and the maker of the orrery offered as lot 12. He cut wheels by hand for the greater part of his working life and bought a dividing engine out of the northern trade in his last four years, which is in the inventory of his shop taken at his death and may be read there. The manuscript at lot 80 is attributed to him. He made nine great pieces and this house has handled three.
Wett, Lubbert
His grandson, of the same house, who sold the orrery to the deceased in 1611 for eleven hundred marks and the family letters in the same year for nine. He had the selling of his grandfather's estate and no instruction in the trade, and he priced the movement by its case. He left this city in 1613 and did not return to it, and the family have said since, in this room, that he had no power to sell either lot.
Wett, Machteld
His sister, of the Kolkgracht end, deceased 1621, and the last of that house to keep it entire. The candelabrum at lot 89 came to the deceased under her will, and the last of the forty-one letters at lot 71 is hers and is about a candelabrum. She left the piece to a man she had known thirty years, and she left it in a form of words which the notary who drew it says he advised her against.
Wilsum, Melis
Printer, of the Staple Quay, who prints this catalogue, and printer to this house since 1618 at the rate of eleven marks the sheet. The hand-coloured plate of the Kolkgracht at lot 18 is his, from his own copperplate, and the sheets at lot 73 are the first pull of these very pages, offered as printed matter of the sale and sold as such. He keeps his pulls, all of them, and has done for nineteen years, and he does not correct one pull from another.
Zeeger, Coenraad
Notary of this city, admitted 1589, and the notary who drew the testament at lot 86 and eleven codicils to other people's. His seal-ring is lot 41 and was surrendered by his executors to the Chamber and released by the Chamber to this sale, the office being vacated by death. The manuscript at lot 57 is attributed to him and reads like him. He held that a paper which cannot be altered is worth more than a paper which cannot be denied, and he wrote that opinion at the head of his register.
Two Lots Naming Nobody
The compiler of this index is required to enter a name for every lot and has failed twice. Lot 88 is offered with no vendor named, upon the order of the Court of Wards, and the papers with it name no person at all in any capacity. Lot 100 carries no ticket, no bill, and no vendor, and stands in this sale because the count required it.
Where a lot names nobody, this index prints nobody. It does not print a guess, and it does not print the house.
The index is closed at the sealing of the candles on the thirteenth of Sprokkel and is not added to during the sale. Corrections are received in writing by the clerk of the sale room within eight days of the close of the fourth day and are entered in the register, where they stand beside the entry corrected and do not replace it.
[in pencil] seventy names here. forty-one on the roll. count the difference and ask which of the two lists is finished.