Jan Van Hout's House

(to the right of the Vergulden Turk):

where William Brewster must have gone to discuss obtaining permission for the Pilgrims to stay in Leiden. The English poet Sir Philip Sidney Stayed here as a guest of Jan van Hout in 1586, and Brewster probably met both Sidney and Van Hout then. Brewster was an assistant of Sir William Davison, England's Secretary of State, who was visiting Leiden at the same time as Sidney. (The present façade is of a later date.)

Turning right along the Breestraat, the elaborate little carved doorway is the