Readme with Transcription_BoschProtocol_15081512

Overview

This csv-file contains a simple transcription of the so-called Bosch' Protocol, the aldermen's registers of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, for the period October 1508 to August 1512. 
I transcribed this source during my master's research.
This source documents real estate and annuity transactions in the wide region of 's-Hertogenbosch (the Meierij).

Variables

"ID": unique identifier of each transaction.
"Source", "Folio": archival identifier
"Year","Month","Day": date of transaction                                   
"Debtor": first name, laste name and other identifiers of debtor
"Creditor": first name, laste name and other identifiers of creditor
"Type_of_transaction": recorded in Dutch
"Annuity_in_guilders": amount of annual debt contracted, expressed in guilders
"Annuity_in_pounds_payment": amount of annual debt contracted, expressed in pounds 'payment'
"Annuity_in_'mud'": amount of annual debt contracted, expressed in 'mud'
"Annuity_other_currency": amount of annual debt contracted, expressed in another currency
"Annuity_total_in_guilders": conversion of annuity to guilders           
"Location": where the collateral was located
"In_sHertogenbosch": TRUE/FALSE whether collateral was located in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch                     
"Principal_in_guilders": amount of principal, expressed in guilders
"Principal_in_Peters_guilders": amount of principal, expressed in Peters guilders
"Principal_in_golden_guilders": amount of principal, expressed in golden guilders
"Principal_estimated": amount of principal, estimated based annuity and interest rate           
"Principal_total_in_guilders": conversion of principal to guilders
"Interest_rate": interest rate on debt                         
"Aldermen": aldermen who officiated the transaction
"Wife": wife of debtor
"Other debtors": other debtors mentioned
"Transaction_at_the_benefit_of(inDutch)": transaction recorded 'ad opus', at the benefit of a third party
"Terminated": contract 'gecasseert' at a specific date
"Bought_by_secretary": TRUE/FALSE whether the town's secretary was formally involved as creditor              
"Transactions_by_secretary": name of town's secretary who was involved as formal creditor (or debtor)
"Sold_with_wife": TRUE/FALSE whether creditor's wife was formally involved as creditor
"Sold_with_others": TRUE/FALSE whether others was formally involved as creditor(s)
"Sold_with_in-laws": TRUE/FALSE whether principal creditor's in-laws were formally involved as creditors