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- NOTARIAL RECORDS RELATING TO THE PORTUGUESE JEWS IN AMSTERDAM UP TO 1639
Nr. 2020 - Protest of non-payment. Leonart de Beer, merchant in Amsterdam, requests Manuel Mendes Cardoso, Portuguese merchant in Amsterdam, who acts for Michiel de Crasto, fro whom he also accepted the bill of exchange, payment of this bill of exchange of 530 thalers at 36 stivers a thaler. The bill was drawn in Hamburg on October 20, 1619 at 12 weeks after sight by André de Castro, the value received from Julio Demore. Cardoso refuses to pay because Michiel de Castro is out of town. Jaques van Wijnegem, broker in Amsterdam, declares that the current rate of exchange to Hamburg is 34tá stivers for a thaler of 32 Lübeck shillings. 1620, February 13 Not. Arch. 625, p. 441 -441 v; Not. Sibrant Cornelisz.
No. 1715 (1619, May 6, Not. Arch. 611 B, fol. 552v.-553; Not. Pieter Rutjens.)
Contract of employment between Manuel Mendes Cardoso, Portuguese merchant in Amsterdam, and Matheus Mollenhauwer from Danzig, clothmaker. During a period of one year, starting on May 8, 1619 Mollenhauwer will be employed by Cardoso at a wage of 44 pounds Flemish a year. He will card, spin, weave and perform all other jobs that are necessary in the production of cloth. He will take the cloth to the fulling-mill and the dye house, supervise the workers and hire good workers whom he knows. On Sabbath and holy days Mollenhauwer will have to work elsewhere with the wool that Cardoso will provide. In winter Cardoso will provide heating. During this year Mollenhauwer may not work for anyone else on penalty of a fine that will be set by the judicial authorities. If Cardoso fires him during the year, he will have to pay him his full wages.
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