15880227BRE00

1588, February 27

Bremen

Bremen to queen Elizabeth I of England: relate how the ship of Everdt Schroder, Friedrich Koster and Johan Hudeman was captured by English pirates near Shetland when they were returning from Iceland, with among others fish for the Danish king on board. Now it has become known that the ship has been brought to the Isle of Man, the queen is asked for help in retrieving it.

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.

Bremen, Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Bremen

2-R.11.ff. (Akten der Islandfahrer)

One bifolio and one folio

20,5x33,5cm

Paper

Severe water damage. paper heavily worn at the edges.

Very clear script, but with many corrections in another hand, which are hard to read.

Draft

Latin

Note on the back: Scriptum senatus ad reginam Angliae pro Schrodero, Hudeman, Köster aliisque civibus nostris we(?) iuxta Hitlandiam intercepte navis et merciu(m). Datu(m) 27 februarii anno etc. 88.