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Region/Country: Region/Land: Shetland, Scotland
The northermost of the larger islands of Shetland. At least two harbours are known here, Baltasound and Uyeasound. In St Olaf's Church in Lunda Wick, two grave stones of Bremen merchants are preserved.
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1539, July 3
Burravoe
Conveyance by Thomas Hacket, burgess of Dysart, to Laurence Hill, of land in Gluss in Northmavine, Shetland, which he had inherited from his late brother Robert Hacket and now sells, among others to pay the debts that Robert has with Bremen skipper Johone Baller.
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1560, July 20
Scalloway
Olave Sinclair, governour of Shetland, permits the use of the harbour Baltasound in Unst, Shetland, to the merchant Johan Cordes from Bremen in the year 1561. One of the Low German translations is issued to Heinrick Byllen.
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1562, October 26
[Bremen]
Johan Runge to Bremen: complaint against Segebad Detken, who has used the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, which was used by Runge with permission of the governour of Shetland the previous year, and refused them entry. Being unable to trade in Shetland, Runge then set sail for Bergen in Norway, under great losses, and demands a compensation of 400 daler.
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1562, November 19
[Bremen]
Segebad Detken to Bremen: answer to the complaint of Johan Runge about the use of the harbour Baltasound, in which Detken states that Runge's permission to use the harbour Baltasound was only given for the year 1561, and that Detken has used the same harbour for many years before. Furthermore, as there were four other harbours available which they could have used instead, there was no need for Runge to go to Norway. Therefore, it is asked that all charges are dropped.
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1562, December 14
[Bremen]
Johan Runge to Bremen: surrejoinder and final plea to the rejoinder of Segebad Detken in the lawsuit about the use of the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, in which he refutes the claims that in the original license Johan Cordes was not licensed, that he is vainly trying to discredit Cordes, and repeats that Detken had given up the said harbour. Therefore, the claim for compensation of 400 daler is repeated.
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1563, August 18
Brow
Olave Sinclair, governor of Shetland, to Bremen: declares how he didn't want to give Johan Cordes and Johan Runge a license for the harbour of Baltasound, because there were already too many ships near the northern islands, but that they were not interested in one of the many available harbours on the mainland, and that it is a lie that they were driven from the said harbour by force by Segebad Detken and his companions.
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1563, September 21
Edinburgh
Queen Mary of Scotland to Olave Sinclair, governour of Shetland: states that she has permitted Johan Cordes, Johan Bartscher, Gert Westerwolt, Hinrick Eggers and Hinrick Vaget from Bremen to use the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, on the condition that they pay their tolls, and asks Sinclair not to hinder them.
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1568, January 5
Copenhagen
James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell's account of his flight from Scotland via Shetland to Norway, where he was captured, including how he forced Gerdt Hemeling from Bremen and a merchant from Hamburg to rent him their ships in Shetland.
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1602-1604
[Shetland]
The Court Book of Shetland 1602-1604, containing records of law courts held at parish and country levels. Among others it concerns financial transactions of many German merchants in harbours around the country, cases of conflict between merchants and violence at trading sites.
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1640, May 8
Bremen
Bremen to Andres Brus and Nen Nyven, stewards of Unst and Yell in Shetland: request to hear witnesses in Shetland for testimonies in the court case of Segebad Detken and Marten Schnelle against Cordt and Henrich Warneken.
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