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1563, March 4

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Frederick II of Denmark: ask permission to use the harbours in the Northwest of Iceland, which the king had forbidden, to reclaim their outstanding debts.

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.

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 26 (Supplement II, no. 16)

One bifolio.

22x33cm

Paper

Sealed.

High German

On the back: G. Der rhat zu Hamburgh bitt uff suplicien irer gemeynen burgerschaft, verstattung zuthun, des dieselben irer schulde so sie nortwerts in Islandt ausstehen haben, an schwevel befridigt werden mugen, nach dem sie sunst keine zalung zuelegen, productum Coppenhagen den 18. martii anno etc. 63.