I hereby send my willing service and all that I can arrange for love and kindness. Honourable, dear, well-minded friends. It has come to my notice that Jan van Olmen, the young sexton of the church in Grave, is grossly deficient in the rights belonging to his sextonage by refusing to pay the customary dues for more than 25 corpses in the guesthouse, despite the fact that they did pay the parish priest and the church from these corpses, and in the past his predecessors were allowed to do so, as I have been informed. Since the said sexton is bound, because of his oath, to guard the rights of this sexton, and since I am obliged to support him because of the blood tie between him, my wife and my son, and also because he came to the said sexton by my doing, I ask you as emphatically as I can and may, that you will ensure and advise, that the said sexton, like the parish priest and the church, will be paid his customary right to the said corpses, and that you will continue to support him in all his just causes. Then you will receive my love and thanks, and I will do my best to earn it with my limited ability. This knows God, who may always protect you. Written in Antwerp on 18 June 1432.

Emont of Dynter, secretary to my gracious lord the duke of Burgundy and Brabant