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KW d1.38, f.r55v, 4-3-1617: Adriaen Adriaenszn, pottenbakker, transporteert Willem Wiilemszn, zeepzieder in ‘de Hamer’, een huis ‘de Potbackerije’ aan het oude Singel tegenover de Geelvinckspijker met een pottenbakkerij in gebruik als suikerbakkerij daarachter en een woning onder één dak in de Pottenbakkerssteeg, belendend aan de westzijde Jacob Corneliszn (Pot, pottenbakker; nr. 536); GAA arch. 5061, Recht. Arch., dl.2167, f,39v, 18-4-1639. Reijnst Olphertszn heeft op 14-1-1636 bij executie voor f67oo een huis aan het Singel gekocht, waarin hij woonde, met twee woningen in de Pottenbakkerssteeg, afkomstig van Pieter Lourenszn Spiegel de jonge (schoonzoon van Willem Willemszn);

The buyer maij be either Pieter Lourensz. Spiegel de oude(I) or de jonge(II), but more probably I, as he was often called by his Christian name and patronymic only. The father, a merchant and cloth dealer, was born in Antwerp about 1553, was married to Griet Pieters in 1582, became a citizen on 16 Januarij 1585, and died in 1630 or 1631 (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 78(1933), p. XLIII, and Gelderblom, Prosopographic Data Base). The son, Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel de jonge(II), was betrothed to Aaltje Willems, 20, from Amsterdam, on 20 April 1607. At the time of his betrothal, he was assisted by his father Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel I; Aeltje Willems was assisted by Willem Willemsz. (Amelandt) of INVNO 1222 and Nelletgen Bartouts, her father and mother (DTB 666/66). Willem Willemsz. was the owner of the soap-boiling establishment named de Hamer on the Nieuwendijck, which, in 1626 was valued at 13,100 f. (On the assets left after their death by Willem Willemsz. and his wife Nelletge Barthouts, see Van Dillen, Bronnen, op. cit., pp. 636-8.) Willem Willemsz. was a nephew of Maritge Walichs of INVNO 719. Hendrick Laurensz. Spiegel (1549-1612), the older brother of Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel, was an art lover and collector, a distinguished man of letters, and a friend of literati including Roemer Visscher. He devised programs for several prints to designs by Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis van Haarem (M. J. Bok, Art Lovers and Their Paintings in Dawn of the Golden Age, Exhibition Catalogue, Rijksmuseum, 1993-4, p. 160). Pieter Laurensz. I was a cloth dealer on the Nieuwen Dijck, who was a buyer of bulbs at the sale of Pieter Pietersz., horticulturist, on 25 September 1626 (WK 5073/952). The collection of Pieter Lourensz. Spiegel I and Griete Pieters was assessed by the painter Claes Moeyaert in 1631 (INVNO 267). In 1631, the heirs of Pieter Lourensz. Spiegel (de oude) paid a tax of 400 f., living on the Nieuwen Dijck (Kohier, fol. 25vo.) It was probably Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel II, living elsewhere on the Nieuwen Dijck, who paid a tax of 125 f. (Kohier, fol. 41vo.) Since the father was still alive at the time of the sale and the son should have been called de jonge, it is more likely that the buyer was the father than the son. On 3 Maij 1635, the books of Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel (I?) were inventorized and exhibited by Claes Cornelisz. Pronck (the son of Cornelis Martsz. Pronck of R 32466) (Van Dillen, op.cit. 144(1974), p. 90). Claes Pronck, was said to be the son-in-law of Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel (I) in an interrogatory dated 13 Februarij 1636 (NA 889, film 595, Not. van Zwieten). Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel II seems to have become insolvent around 1633. P. C. Hooft was one of the creditors. Pronck (probably Claes Cornelisz., cited above, who was said to be Pieter Laurensz.'s brother-in-law) had apparently drawn up an agreement with the creditors (De briefwisseling van Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, vol. 2, pp. 632-3 and p. 668). Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel I was Roman Catholic, as were Willem Willemsz. and Barthout Willems cited above. When Pieter Serwouters, the brother of Philips Serwouters of R 22040, was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1628, the event took place in the home of Pieter Laurensz. Spiegel II. The daughter of the latter, named Catarina Pieters Spiegel (1611-1652) was the godmother of Pieter Serwouters's daughter (Claudia Swan The Art of Bookkeeping, Pieter Serwouters (1586-1657) and the Status of Pictorial Accounts in Seventeenth-Century Holland in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 50(2000), pp. 267-8).