Document: Form of certificate of great citizenship

[several lines lost] of this city [ ] New Netherland request [ ] any person would be granted burgher certificates ([ ] had been) in whatever form the burgher certificate [ ] whether great or small burgher right, would be granted.

After due deliberation it has been resolved and determined that the burgomasters shall grant to the persons who request burgher certificates and have paid what is required for it, the same mutatis mutandis [ the necessary changes having been made ] in the following form:

Of the great burgher right

We, the burgomasters of the city Amsterdam in New Netherland, hereby certify and declare that N.N. [i] has requested and obtained from us the great burgher right and the benefits thereof; and has taken the oath and paid to the treasurers the money required thereto. Done…

And the burgher certificates of the great burgher right shall be sealed with the city’s seal and 3 guilders paid for it.