15881228KOB00

1588, December 28

Copenhagen

Danish treasurer Christoffer Valckendorff declares, that he allows Ambrosius Loring and Bernd Salfeld from Hamburg to trade in the harbours Stappe and Reff for one more year because the Council of the Realm has not met, but that they should request a proper renewal of their license next year.

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. 18a)

One bifolio.

20,5x33cm

Paper

Signet seal.

High German

Title on the back: Des herrn rentmeisters concess(io) Ambrosio Loring und Bernd Salfeld, ad annum auff Stappen.

The date is written in the document as "Montags nach dem heyligen Christage, des angehenden neun und atzigsten jars," which would be December 29, 1589. However, Loring and Salfeld received a license for three years in the last months of 1589 (15891108HAM00, 15891203KOB02), and their old licenses became invalid in 1588 (15860213HAM00). Therefore, it would be likely that this document was written before the summer of 1589, which is also in line with Valckendorf's statement about the "beginning 89th year." It is likely that he lets the year begin on Christmas.