We Floris, Count of Holland announce to anyone who shall see or hear this letter read, that Lord Hartberen van Haastrecht, knight, our faithful feudal man, has freely and voluntarily surrendered to us his castle at Haastrecht with the adjoining farmland and with the other lands surrounding it, to the extent of fifty morgen. We have returned to him his house and his land to keep it from us and our successors as Counts of Holland in fief, so that this house and the land will not fall to us as long as there is anyone living there who is a descendant of him in direct line. And the house shall be freely accessible to us and our descendants to drive in and out of it whenever we and they deem it necessary or desirable. Given at The Hague in the year our Lords 1290 on Wednesday after St Mark's Day.