 Paul Abels has mentioned that the name 'Pourbus' features several times in Gouda at the start of the sixteenth century, but he adds that there is only one person in the Gouda city archives, a man named Jan Pieterssoen Pourbus, who could actually qualify as Pourbus' father.City accounts mention a payment made to him for "painting the board that stands in front of the window" in 1529.The mention is brief, but it corroborates Van Mander's claim about Pourbus' Gouda roots by another contemporary source.