The most well-known example of a meent is found in the Dutch province of Holland in het Gooi. It existed from 1404-1972. All inhabitants of the towns and villages of Naarden, Laren, Blaricum, Huizen, and Hilversum had a limited access to the common. This access was granted in exchange for a fee in an agreement from 1404 with Duke Albert I of Bavaria (Albrecht van Beyeren, count of Holland). Only inhabitants that owned a house and cultivated farmland were granted full access. Furthermore, access was only granted to those that had been born in the area. This practice was changed in the late 17th century and access was only gained by inheritance. The hereditary proprietors of the meent in Het Gooi are known as Erfgooiers, they are meentgenoten. The management of the meent was executed by a holtspraak, a meeting by the village councils. These councils turned into a delegation of Erfgooiers in the 17th century. In the eighteenth century the meeting was conducted at the Naarden Town Hall. The meeting consisted of three majors of the town of Naarden, and Buurtmeesters and gemachtigden, delegates, of Laren, Hilversum, Huizen, and Blaricum. The clerk of Naarden was present to take notes of the meeting The heide, heath/moor, was sold in 1933 and the meenten, common pastures, were sold in 1972.