15940827OLD00

1594, August 27

Oldenburg

Count John VII of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: complaint about interference of Bremen merchant Hans Honne in Neswage, where he supposedly destroyed the Oldenburg booths and built his own, and interfered with the trade of Oldenburg skipper Claus Koch when he arrived there. The first part of the letter concerns the Oldenburg possession of the land of Jever.

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.

Oldenburg, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv

Best. 20, -25, no. 6, no. 18

Two bifolios

21x32,5cm

Paper

foliated 47-50

Neatly written.

Draft

High German

Many minor corrections, one on a small leaflet pasted on f.49r.

Facsimile not (yet) available