CHAPTER XVI.
_Of the death of Gerard Kalker, a devout Priest, and Rector of the House of Clerks_.
In the year of the Lord 1409, on the Vigil of the Nativity of Christ, Gerard Kalker died at Zwolle.

He was a devout Priest and Rector of the House of Clerks in the said town, and his age was thirty-six years.

The town named Kalker in the district of Kleef was his native place, but when he was attending the school at Zwolle he joined himself to the devout Brothers, and himself became one of their congregation.

Afterward he was chosen to dwell in the new House that had been built for a congregation of Clerks by Meynold of Windesem, a rich citizen of Zwolle, and after a while was instituted as Rector of the same House, being held worthy of that office by his Elders.

He was one of great stature and innocency of life.