16861006EDI00

1686, October 6

Edinburgh

Inventory of the bonds of German merchants in Shetland for butter and oil duties for the year 1685, written by taxman Charles Murray.

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.

Lerwick, Shetland Archives

D6/97

One folio

Paper

Various rips and tears in the lower half

Final version

Scots

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Inventar of the Dutch merchands bonds given for the butter and oyll cropt (84) payabell 1685.

Imp: bond be Clauss Deirecks, Hamburger, daitit the tuintie tuo July (86) for 105 rix dollars
Item, bond be Bairn Hultrop, daitit 22 July 86 for 84
Item, be Hermon Bardwiss, Breamer, also of the said dait, for 80
Item, be Elard Marteins, Breamer, of the said dait, for 68
Item, be Fredrick Dicken, Breamer, of the said dait, for 89
Item, be Boskie Tegen, Breamer, daitit 23d. July (86), for 32
Item, be Casten Hackman, Breamer, daitit 26 July, for 95
Item. be Ditmar Lanconou, Breamer, daitit 26 July, for 90
Item, be Adolph Westerman, Hamburger, daitit 30 July, for 64
Item, be Martines Bardiewish, Breamer, daitit 10th Agust, for 80
Item, be Allexander Joly, daitit ij Agust, for 107
Item, be Bartholl Henck, Hamburger, for 165
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(in other hand)

Ressaved from William Donall, wreyteir in Edinburgh, the wholl bonds and tickits abone mentioned extendeing in the haill to the soum of one thousand and fiftie nyn rix dollars sax stooirs, which bonds ar upon the ackompt of Robert Hunter, chamberlin of Zetland, his intromission for the crop 1684 yeyrs, as witness my hand, at Edinburgh, the 6th Ocktober 1686.

Cha. Murray

Transcript by John Ballantyne