14860309LON00

[1486, before March 9]

[London]

Complaints of English skippers and merchants about competition from the Hanse, among others that Hanseatic merchants have started to trade in Iceland and are cooperating with the Danes against the English.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Gdańsk, Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku

XVI 94

Copy and translation by the secretary of the Hanseatic Kontor in London

Low German

Facsimile not (yet) available

Hanserecesse III, 2, no. 31
Diplomatarium Islandicum 11:34 (only paragraph 2 after Hanserecesse)

14850521LON00

De unverdrechlike beswerunge, welck alle Engelsche natien, miit namen coplude und eventurer, mesters van schepen und schiiplude, tosamen miit all den inwaners in den havenen desses riikes liiden bii der dait off hanteringe van den Oisterlingen, bii erer vormetenheit und miisbrukiinge van sulcken begiiften, als se siick vormeten, soulden to en gemaket siin.

....

2. Item se hebben nu late upgenomen alle de dait und hanterunge to Bergen in Norwegen und Islant, wor se in vortiiden nicht plegen to komen, sunder de Engelschen deden alle de dait und hanterunge dar, sunder nu mach geiin Engelsch schip dar nicht komen dan up grote sorge, perikell und eventur, darumb dat de Oisterlinge biistain den Denen tegen de Engelschen, as id is vaken geprovet und bewiiset in des koniinges rait.

....

Transcript copied from Hanserecesse (selected paragraphs only)