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[1535, August 15]

[London]

Eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in London to the Hanseatic representatives gathered in Lüneburg: various complaints of the Kontor, among others about the violence of Bremen and Hamburg merchants against the English in Iceland in 1532, which caused many expenses for which the Kontor requests compensation.

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.

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Lübeck, Archiv der Hansestadt Lübeck

ASA Externa, Anglicana, 462

Booklet of 8 folios

Bound with a thread

On f. 1: Ghebreke des copmans to Lunden in Engellant, overgeven anno [15]35.

Formerly Dreyer, Acta Anglicana, Appendix 2

Stadtarchiv Lübeck

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Gdańsk, Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku

300 Abt. 28 n. 117

Booklet of 10 folios

Copy

Facsimile not (yet) available

Hanserecesse IV, 2, no. 95

Summary in Danziger Inventar no. 808 (after D).

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24. Item tome laesten, ßo dan etlyke Islandesvarer ahm jongesten vorgangen jaere 1532 in Islande in den steden unser heren Bremen unde Hamborch wanende, af unde ahn vorkerende, dem vagede kr w. van Dennemarcken milder dechtnyssen darselvest byplichtende, hebben etlyke der Engelschen copvaerers im vorgenanten lande jamerlyken doethgeslagen, vormordet unde darnach berovet unde erer schepe part dardorch vorloren unde eyn van denselvigen up de Elve gebracht, wordorch de Engelschen im rike van Engellant dem heren konnyng, erem gnedygesten naturlyken heren, swarlyken unde jamerlyken over deselvigen handtdadygen geclaget. Derwegen heft der here canceller kr w. van Engellant uth beveyl kr w. unde des rikes hogen raedes vor den copman gesant, bytterlyken de ßake geopent, vorgedragen unde vortellet, nichtestomyn den copman dreflyken unde mercklyken overgehalet, alße de scryftlyken breve nefens den muntlyken gewarven, darby by twen clarcken des loeflyken Lundeschen quuntoers by unßen heren Bremen unde Hamborch to twen sunderigen tyden ghescheyn, wider doen vorhalen unde undecken, wördorch idt gude quunthoer to London doen tor tydt in grote vaer gestalt wart, darnefens der copman to dreflyker geltspildynge dorch de vorgedachten undaeth nothgedrenghet. Idt gude quunthoer den gemeynen steden unde nation tosamrende geboret unde gescheyn de summe is net tweundeseventych lb., twe schillinge, soeß penninge sterling, eyn erßame copman byddende unde begerende, eyn sodan vorgenante gelt mochte by den vorgenompten steden erer oberricheyt dem copman unde gemeynen besten betalt unde gegulden werden.1 Darnefens ock allen unde eynen jewelycken de see tor nerynge ghebrukende in allen hanßesteden beveyl unde ernstlyke geboeth berecesset nu möge werden unde darnefens den selvigen medegegeven, dat ße zamptlich unde eyn elcker in besunder myt den Engelschen seevarenden lude stede unde frundtschäp holden mogen, dat idt gude quunthoer der gruntlyken vordarfnyssen, ßo vor ogen ist, de beter dardorch gehandthavet unde gereddet moege werden.

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