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In the year 1433, the Wednesday after Thirteenth Day (January 7) a draft decree relating to the meat butchers and about the new meat houses.

In the first place. Since it was determined by the old and new council, because of the brawls and banishments that often took place between the meat coopers, both in the meat house and at the Plaats in the city, and among the citizens of our city, and in order to prevent such gatherings and sudden gatherings and brawls in the future, if God wills, the old meat house was demolished and [it was decided] not to build a new meat house in that place. Therefore, two new meat houses were built, one above and the other below. Thereupon, pending agreement of the old and new councils and the cooperating guilds, the following draft resolution was passed:

Item that the meat butchers‘ guild [vleeshouwersgilde] shall no longer exist and that in its place a new guild shall be established which shall be called the brewers’ guild [brouwersgilde] and which shall have the same liberties, benefits, burdens and services as other principal guilds. In this brewers' guild will sit all brewers within and outside the city of Utrecht who reside in our freedom. And this brewers' guild will collect all income from rents, guard duty (tower guard and in Ondiep?), which the butchers had before. In return, they will do the same as the meat butchers’s guild did and likewise all the widows of meat butchers who died, until they marry or join another guild, according to the old custom.