PIETERSKERKHOF

(churchyard):
The theologian Jacobus Arminius lived in a house facing the church. The white house on the corner of the Kloksteeg was where the family of Pilgrim Thomas Rogers lived (in one room) briefly while he went with son Joseph to America first to start a farm in 1620. Although Thomas died in the first winter, the remaining members of his family moved to Plymouth in 1623. The tall Pieterskerk tower at the west front of the church collapsed in 1512, but the bell was unbroken and was hung in a stubby free-standing tower at the corner of the church yard, giving the name Bell Alley or Kloksteeg to the street. Thomas Brewer lived in the second house to the right of the almshouse on the opposite side of the Kloksteeg. Brewer was a friend of the Pilgrims and provided financial support for William Brewster's printing activities. The minister of the English Reformed Church, Hugh Goodyear, who became a friend of the Pilgrims, lived for a while in Brewer's house.

On the far side of the churchyard is the formal entrance to the almshouse called the