Anno 1618, the 15th of July. Johan van Rechteren, lord of Almelo was accused of taking more peat from the peat bogs in Geesteren  then he was allowed by the [marken]acts. He was asked to bring any proof, that he had right to take more peat, within 14 days to the chairman of the maalschap. But after 3 months, in which the lord of Almelo didn’t brought any proof, the deputy inheritors decided that he took the peat illegally. The deputies wrote a letter to the lord of Almelo that he was forbidden to come in to the fields, but that he had 14 days to bring them the proof that he had those rights.