Netherlandish

It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English.

Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).

Even more strikingly assumptive of a Low Countries context is Article 12's prescription that any guild brother who maimed another 'shall compownde with' and 'recompense and satisfy' the person whom he hurt. Composition or settlement of interpersonal wrongs by money compensation, rather than state prosecution, was common in much of Europe, including in Netherlandish cities.