Unique item!
Very Rare Amsterdam City passport (Poorter) from 1803. Over 200
years old. This one is not paper but printed and dried Pork skin!!
You can still see the "3 Stuyver" revenue seal on the top
left.
Unfortunately someone used a pen at some point to highlight a few
letters that were faded. This couldn possibly be removed by an
ballpoint-ink eraser?
Wikipedia:
Poorter is a historic
name for a citizen who had earned the
right inside the gates of a place with city rights to live. They got this burgher rights or citizenship to
register with one by being magistrate of the city, in Brussels, for example in amman .
The etymological origins of "burgher" is not with
the word " port "but the Latin word portus,
meaning" port means. In
the Early Middle Ages the first cities
arose namely as small trading posts near noble castles and
palaces. The traders who lived in
the walled later settlements were the forerunners of the later
classes.
It was important to obtain civil
rights a certain sum of money to be paid, thus they proved that
they were not destitute and supported himself. Their own
maintenance There were religious
restrictions and in many cities were Jews until the French Revolution is not a
citizen. There was also an
oath be taken. The city accounts of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1693 shows that
after taking the oath 6 guilders , 4 nickels and 8 disturbs had to be a burgher to be
paid. Some cities, such as
Deventer , also had great citizens who had
more rights than ordinary citizens. They therefore had to pay more.
The city was surrounded by a wall and
a moat and thus offered a degree of security and protection to its
citizens (burghers). Evening at
dark the city gates were closed by the gate guard.
The keys of the city were a mayor handed and picked up the next
day.
The entire citizenry of a city is sometimes called
Poorterij.
In contrast, an outside burgher or
hage burgher was someone who the civil rights of a town mate, but lived outside the area of this
city. This status existed all over
the Netherlands , but especially in Flanders . Exactly what the term meant, could vary somewhat from
city to city.
To obtain the outer poorterschap they
had to pay. Poorter money Other
hand, it was exempt from tax to the lord of the area in which he
lived. For example the right of
Mr. to choose from the death the best piece of land inheritance . The outer poorter was not under the law of the local
lord, but under the laws of the city he had outside
poorterschap.
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