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- From The op Dyck Genealogy, citation details below:
Deric was Schepen and Burgomaster, but does not appear as Treasurer, that office having been held by his brother Wilhelm. Although Wilhelm died before Deric, and is mentioned before him in the deed of 1383 by which they and their sisters conveyed property to a charity, the fact that Wilhelm did not act as Schepen makes it probable that he was younger than Deric. Deric's service as Schepen, extending as it does over the whole period of his mature activity, together with the known hereditary character of the of?ce, leads us to believe that he became Schepen immediately upon the death of his father, and held the post continuously throughout his life.
About this time there arose at Wesel a cheerful custom, which we shall ?nd to have been continued down to the Reformation, and by which the city gave yearly Christmas gifts of wine to its municipal officers. The gift amounted to from two to four quarters in the case of the Schepens, Town Councillors and Treasurers, and to eight quarters in the case of the Burgomasters, and was additional to their salaries. The records given below show that in each of the two years in which Deric was Burgomaster he was paid a salary of 36 marks, and further that he received the official Christmas gifts of wine.
Apart from his magistracy and his attestation of deeds we derive most of our knowledge of Deric from the "Kaemmerei-Rechnungen" or City Account Books, a series of original detailed records of the yearly income and expenditure of Wesel, beginning with 1342, and extending continuously with the exception of a few years for which the books have been lost, destroyed or injured; and from a series of similar records of Willibrord's Church, beginning in 1401. The entries are far from explicit; for instance, we find that in 1410 Deric made a payment to the church on account of a house, but are left in doubt whether it was a payment of rent in our sense of the word, or in the nature of a rent-charge placed by Deric upon his house to secure a debt or a fixed annual contribution. Besides exercising their respective functions of government, of religious administration, and of charity, the municipality, the Church, and the various foundations of the city, acted also as monied institutions, owned and rented land, loaned money, and held rent-charges on the property of their debtors. Yearly receipts by such institutions for the use of their land, or in payment of rent-charges, were entered in the account books under the common heading "Renten." Where the receipt is isolated as was the one from Deric in 1410, we infer that it was of rent proper; but where it is continued for several generations of the same family, always on the same land, we conclude that the property was an hereditary possession, and that the payment was of a rent-charge placed upon it.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Abt 1340 - 1412 (~ 70 years)