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I ac knowledge that forty-three years ago my wife and myself had got together so much of real and personal property that we could live honourably upon it.

I had at that time as good pay and practice as any advocate in the courts which brought me in a good 4000 florins a year; there being but eight advocates practising at the time, of whom I was certainly not the one least employed.

In the beginning of the year '77 I came into the service of the city of Rotterdam as 'Pensionary.