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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
.

Handschrift Bibliotheek J
3023
, Beels,‘Korte aanwijzinge’, f.
39
vo.
Henricus Calkoen,
Verhandeling over het voorkomen en straffen der misdaaden etc
. (Amsterdam, prob.
1780
),
182
. Calkoen is regarded as the Dutch Beccaria.
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
.

Het Amsterdamsch Hoerdom
,
164
.
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.
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
.
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
.
Van Domselaer,
Beschryvinge
, iii.
222
.
John Evelyn,
Memoirs of John Evelyn . . . comprising his diary from
1641
-
1705
-
6
, ed.William Bray (n.p., n.d.), i.
21
.
Von Zesen,
Beschreibung
,
316
.
e.g. in the
R
eys-Boek door de Vereenigde Nederlanden
(
1700
),
97
.
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
.
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
.
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.
‌
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
).
Lotte C. van de Pol,‘Vrouwencriminaliteit in de tweede helft van de
17
e eeuw’,
Tijdschrift voor Criminologie
,
87 ⁄ 5
(
1987
),
148
-
56
.
To be precise:
28
.
4
years. Spierenburg,‘Prisoners and Beggars‘,
43
.
R
obert Bargrave,
c
.
1655
, as cited in van Strien,
British Travellers
,
161
n.
37
.
Het wonderlyk leeven van ’t Boullonnois hondtie, klappende door Tooverij, aar-
dige vryagien, vreemde Minne-stuipen, geestige bedriegeryen, etc. etc
. (n.p.,
1681
),
173
.
Von Zesen,
Beschreibung
,
316
; Fokkens,
Beschrijvinge
,
284
; van Strien- Chardonneau,‘
Le voyage
’,
77
; Jacobsen Jensen,
R
eizigers te Amsterdam
, suppl.
31
; Sellin,
Pioneering
,
94
.
Example taken from van Strien,
Touring
,
381
, where an English traveller records a payment of two stivers ‘for a handsome wench in the Spinhouse’.
Sellin,
Pioneering
,
94
-
5
.
Het wonderlyk leeven
,
174
-
9
.
Johann Friedrich Carl Grimm,
Bemerkungen eines
R
eisenden durch Frankreich, England und Holland in Briefen an seine Freunde
, iii (Altenburg,
1775
),
338
.
Joseph Shaw,
Letters
(
1709
), cited in van Strien,
British Travellers
,
136
.
40
.
5061
-
338
f.
25
,
10
July
1692
.

Von Zesen,
Beschreibung
,
316
-
17
; Bientjes,
Holland
,
174
.
Spierenburg,
Spectacle
,
193
-
6
; id,
The Prison Experience
,
91
-
2
.
See e.g. Peter Burke,
Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe
(London,
1978
),
270
-
86
.
Van de Pol,‘Van speelhuis’,
166
-
8
.
Idem,‘Hoeveel soorten volk
?
R
oodenburg,
Onder censuur
,
291
.
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
.

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