On the Second of Octob'r 1739 Thomas Hall Lett a Chamber to Capt. Æneas Mackay, whom also acknowledged to have hired the same, in his House at the Sign of the Bible in New Bridge Street,[1] For one year certain, and went into the same the third Instant, at Fifty Gilders to be paid every year, and in case no one appears in Octo. 1740 then We agree that it shall be in the Power of the Letter,[2] to lett the same to any other Person, and they may View the same. We have each bound ourselves according to the Custom of this Place. In Testimony of the Truth We have each bound ourselves to Each other in those Bonds.
Dated as above 1739.
Thos. Hall.
[1] Nieuwebrugsteeg, still so called, in the northwest part of old Amsterdam. The "new bridge", to which it led from the eastward, dated from at least 1421.
[2] Lessor.
134. Certificates of Master and Mate and Register. October 8, 1739 (N.S.).
We the underwritten, Master and Mate, Designing by God's help to proceed on a Voyage to the Canaries per the Amsterdam Post, attest and here Declare That We have no other Goods in our Sloop, nor any Wares or Merchandize whatsoever, according to the best of our knowledge, than only such as appears by the Manifest which We have Delivered to this office to be Inspected into, and that according to our knowledge there has been no fraud committed, nor any of our Goods were taken in, till first the Lawfull Dutys were paid, and We further Declare that the Goods We have now given an acco't of is a true and Just acco't, and that we will not receive any more on Board, unless the Persons bring their Passport from this office[1] that they have paid the Dutys, to which have hereunto Signed our Hands October 8th, 1739.
Æneas Mackay.
George Janse.
We the underwritten, Commissioners of the Registers office, Attest and declare that We have Visited the Sloop of Æneas Mackay and the Goods Laden on Board her, and find that the Goods all agree with the Manifest they gave in of the same, and We do acquit the above written Capt'n and Mate, by Declaring the acco't they have given in and which they have signed to be true and Just. Done at Texell the Date and Year above.