Fundamental laws of the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Including ordinances relating to land distribution and and tenure, tolls, water-rights, dikes and sluice gates, guilds, and church laws. There is also a section of copied documents relating to the city of Groningen, its history and politics during the sixteenth century. This compilation is copies of original documents. On the first page of the first volume the name Goos ten Helmichs is given.