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9
.
5052
-
10
, pp.
165
-
6
,
169
,
10
Aug.
1613
.

10
. Wagenaar,
Amsterdam
, xi.
144
-
50
; Versteeg,
Van schout
,
106
-
41
; Spierenburg,

Judicial Violence
,
38
.

11
.
5061
-
379
f.
205
vo,
17
July
1721
.

  1. Handschrift Bibliotheek J
    3023
    , Beels,‘Korte aanwijzinge’, f.
    39
    vo.

  2. Henricus Calkoen,
    Verhandeling over het voorkomen en straffen der misdaaden etc
    . (Amsterdam, prob.
    1780
    ),
    182
    . Calkoen is regarded as the Dutch Beccaria.

  3. See also Faber,
    Strafrechtspleging
    ,
    200
    -
    1
    .
    15
    .
    Groot placaet-boeck
    , ii, col.
    2429
    .

16
.
5061
-
323
f.
169
vo,
7
May
1677
.

17
.
5061
-
355
f.
208
vo,
2
Aug.
1706
.

  1. Het Amsterdamsch Hoerdom
    ,
    164
    .

  2. 5061
    -
    386
    f.
    200
    ,
    7
    Oct.
    1728
    . In
    De ongelukkige levensbeschryving
    (p.
    111
    ) we are told that law enforcement is much stricter in
    R
    otterdam.

  3. For more on the prisons of Amsterdam, and especially the Spin House, see

    Pieter Spierenburg,
    The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe
    (New Brunswick and London,
    1991
    ); Sellin,
    Pioneering
    ,
    87
    -
    101
    ;Wagenaar,
    Amsterdam
    ,viii.
    255
    -
    70
    ;van de Pol,
    Amsterdams hoerdom
    ,
    187
    -
    96
    .

  4. See e.g.
    R
    eys-Boek door de Vereenigde Nederlanden en Derselver aen Grensende Landtschappen en Koninkrijcken
    (Amsterdam,
    1700
    ),
    98
    ; Philips von Zesen,
    Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam etc
    . (Amsterdam,
    1664
    ),
    316
    ;
    Wegwyzer door Amsterdam, zynde eene beknopte verhandeling van desselfs eerste opkomst, vergrootingen, en tegenwoordigen staat
    (Amsterdam,
    1713
    ),
    266
    .The expression the ‘great Cage’ as a description of the Spin House can be found in
    De Amsterdamsche lichtmis
    ,
    115
    .

  5. Van Domselaer,
    Beschryvinge
    , iii.
    222
    .

  6. John Evelyn,
    Memoirs of John Evelyn . . . comprising his diary from
    1641
    -
    1705
    -
    6
    , ed.William Bray (n.p., n.d.), i.
    21
    .

  7. Von Zesen,
    Beschreibung
    ,
    316
    .

  8. e.g. in the
    R
    eys-Boek door de Vereenigde Nederlanden
    (
    1700
    ),
    97
    .

  9. Melchior Fokkens,
    Beschrijvinge der wijdtvermaarde koop-stadt Amstelredam, etc
    . (Amsterdam,
    1662
    ),
    284
    ; Spierenburg,
    The Prison Experience
    ,
    151
    -
    3
    ; Wagenaar,
    Amsterdam
    v.
    249
    and viii.
    265
    .

  10. Pieter Spierenburg, ‘Prisoners and Beggars: Quantitative Data on Imprisonment in Holland and Hamburg,
    1597
    -
    1752
    ’,
    Historical Social
    R
    esearch/Historische Sozialforschung
    15 ⁄ 4
    (
    1990
    ),
    33
    -
    56
    , at
    43
    .

  11. At least, so suggests an English travel guide: van Strien,
    BritishTravellers
    ,
    135
    . During the fair, entrance fees to institutions and attractions were often waived or reduced.

  12. For Amsterdam see ‘Aus dem
    R
    eisetagebuche einer Dame vom Jahre
    1765
    ’, ii.
    176
    ; for The Hague, Jonas Hanway,
    Letters Written Occasionally on the Customs of Foreign Nations in
    R
    egard to Harlots
    (London,
    1761
    ).

  13. Lotte C. van de Pol,‘Vrouwencriminaliteit in de tweede helft van de
    17
    e eeuw’,
    Tijdschrift voor Criminologie
    ,
    87 ⁄ 5
    (
    1987
    ),
    148
    -
    56
    .

  14. To be precise:
    28
    .
    4
    years. Spierenburg,‘Prisoners and Beggars‘,
    43
    .

  15. R
    obert Bargrave,
    c
    .
    1655
    , as cited in van Strien,
    British Travellers
    ,
    161
    n.
    37
    .

  16. Het wonderlyk leeven van ’t Boullonnois hondtie, klappende door Tooverij, aar-

    dige vryagien, vreemde Minne-stuipen, geestige bedriegeryen, etc. etc
    . (n.p.,
    1681
    ),
    173
    .

  17. Von Zesen,
    Beschreibung
    ,
    316
    ; Fokkens,
    Beschrijvinge
    ,
    284
    ; van Strien- Chardonneau,‘
    Le voyage
    ’,
    77
    ; Jacobsen Jensen,
    R
    eizigers te Amsterdam
    , suppl.
    31
    ; Sellin,
    Pioneering
    ,
    94
    .

  18. Example taken from van Strien,
    Touring
    ,
    381
    , where an English traveller records a payment of two stivers ‘for a handsome wench in the Spinhouse’.

  19. Sellin,
    Pioneering
    ,
    94
    -
    5
    .

  20. Het wonderlyk leeven
    ,
    174
    -
    9
    .

  21. Johann Friedrich Carl Grimm,
    Bemerkungen eines
    R
    eisenden durch Frankreich, England und Holland in Briefen an seine Freunde
    , iii (Altenburg,
    1775
    ),
    338
    .

  22. Joseph Shaw,
    Letters
    (
    1709
    ), cited in van Strien,
    British Travellers
    ,
    136
    .
    40
    .
    5061
    -
    338
    f.
    25
    ,
    10
    July
    1692
    .

  1. Von Zesen,
    Beschreibung
    ,
    316
    -
    17
    ; Bientjes,
    Holland
    ,
    174
    .

  2. Spierenburg,
    Spectacle
    ,
    193
    -
    6
    ; id,
    The Prison Experience
    ,
    91
    -
    2
    .

  3. See e.g. Peter Burke,
    Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe
    (London,

    1978
    ),
    270
    -
    86
    .

  4. Van de Pol,‘Van speelhuis’,
    166
    -
    8
    .

  5. Idem,‘Hoeveel soorten volk
    ?

  6. R
    oodenburg,
    Onder censuur
    ,
    291
    .

  7. 376
    protocol
    12
    , f.
    268
    ,
    13
    Oct.
    1672
    . For more on the Disaster Year see

Israel,
The Dutch
R
epublic
,
796
-
806
.

48
.
376
protocol
22
, pp.
351
-
2
and
355
-
7
,
10
,
17
and
31
Aug. and
7
Sept.

1747
.

49
. J. J.Woltjer,‘De plaats van de calvinisten in de Nederlandse samenleving’,

De Zeventiende Eeuw
,
10
(
1994
),
3
-
23
, at
19
-
20
.

50
.
376
protocol
12
, f.
268
,
20
Oct.
1672
.

51
.
376
protocol
17
, f.
225
,
25
Jan.
1703
.

  1. 376
    protocol
    17
    , f.
    278
    -
    279
    ,
    12
    and
    19
    June
    1704
    . On the reduced role of the
    R
    eformed Church in the
    18
    th cent. see
    R
    oodenburg,
    Onder censuur
    ,
    15
    and Evenhuis,
    Ook dat was Amsterdam
    , iv.
    38
    .

  2. 376
    protocol
    13
    , f.
    187
    and
    190
    ,
    13
    and
    20
    Aug.
    1676
    . See also van de Pol, ‘Beeld’,
    127
    -
    9
    .

54
.
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f.
155
vo-
156
,
13
Aug.
1700
; PA
376
protocol
17
, f.
108
and
110
,
29

July and
12
Aug.
1700
.

  1. R
    oodenburg,
    Onder censuur
    ,
    30
    -
    1
    .

  2. Van de Pol,
    Amsterdams hoerdom
    ,
    169
    ;
    R
    oodenburg,
    Onder censuur
    ,
    393
    -
    401
    .

57
.
376
protocol
22
, f.
352
,
354
,
355
-
7
and
358
,
24
and
31
August and
7
Sept.

1747
.

58
.
5061
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308
f.
268
vo,
21
July
1651
;
5061
-
336
f.
110
,
4
Jan.
1691
.

59
.
5061
-
324
f.
105
vo,
15
July
1678
.

60
. Spierenburg,
The Prison Experience
,
221
-
56
.
61
.
5061
-
354
f.
51
vo,
20
Nov.
1704
.

62
.
5061
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323
f.
204
,
15
July
1677
;
5061
-
324
f.
56
,
17
Mar.
1678
.

  1. A
    R
    A Hof van Holland
    5464
    -
    12
    ,
    18
    Sept.
    1753
    .

  2. Carel Davids,
    Wat lijdt den zeeman al verdriet: Het Nederlandse zeemanslied in

de zeiltijd (
1600
-
1900
)
(The Hague,
1980
),
121
.

65
.
5061
-
339
f.
74
,
30
June
1693
.

66
.
5061
-
314
f.
181
vo,
14
Sept.
1662
.

67
.
5061
-
314
f.
188
,
28
Sept.
1662
.

68
.
5061
-
384
f.
27
,
20
Nov.
1725
.

69
.
5061
-
316
f.
190
,
5
Mar.
1665
.

70
. This story was told three years later when she was arrested for a crime of violence.
5061
-
343
f.
196
,
6
Dec.
1696
.

71
.
5061
-
352
f.
145
,
29
Mar.
1703
.

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