The bank is called The Widow's Corn to this day.
It was near Stavoren that M.Havard engaged in a pleasant and improving conversation with a lock-keeper who had fought with France, and from him learned some curious things about Friesland customs.

I quote a little: "When a wife has given birth to a boy and added a son to Friesland, all her female friends come to see her and drink in her room the _brandewyn_, which is handed round in a special cup or goblet.

Each woman brings with her a large tart, all of which are laid out in the room--sometimes they number as many as thirty.

The more there are and the finer the cakes the better, because that proves the number of friends.

A few days later the new-born Frieslander is taken to church, all the girls from twelve years old accompanying the child and carrying it each in turn.