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| | Oudewater (The Netherlands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Emperor Charles V granted Oudewater the privilege to weigh women, who were prosecuted for witchcraft, in the Netherlands and abroad, and to give them a "Certificaet van Weginghe", confirming that they had been weighed in Oudewater and were not too light, and thus were no witches. |
 | | Flagdescription: Stripes of white - red - white, proportioned 1:8:1, the first two stripes share waves with at least four bends, and the second and third share waves with at least five bends; at two thirds of flaglength a white square placed on one point high 3/5 of flagheight, on which a red four-leaf. |
 | | The four-leaf was already on the oldest known Oudewater CoA (c. |
| www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/nl-ut-ow.html (193 words) |
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