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1533-1628
[Hamburg]
First donation register of the confraternity of St Anne of the Hamburg merchants with Iceland, which contains donations, mostly in fish or money, from the people on board of ships returning each year from Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes to Hamburg from 1533-1628. Also contains notes about the annual accounting of the eldermen of the confraternity.
1562, October 17
Hamburg
Hamburg to king Frederick II of Denmark: report that skipper Hans Schomaker arrived in Hamburg from Iceland with a ship of 40 to 50 last loaded with sulfur, on behalf of Stefan Loitz. As sulfur is only allowed to be brought to Copenhagen, Schomaker claimed that weather conditions prevented him from sailing there.
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1563, January 31
Frederiksborg
King Frederick II of Denmark to Hamburg: request to send a list of goods on board of the ship that was arrested with sulfur from Iceland in the Elbe.
1563, February 24
Stettin (Szczecin)
Simon Loitz and Hans Loitz the Elder and the Younger to king Frederick II of Denmark: in response to the king's complain that Stefan Loitz did not pay the 3000 guilders in return for his monopoly on the Icelandic sulfur trade, it is claimed that the king violated the conditions as well by stopping their ships in Hamburg and sending two ships to Iceland himself last year.
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[1567, before November 19]
[Speyer]
Complaints (Gravamina) of Thomas Gerdes, burgomaster of Rostock, Heinrich Dosse, councillor, Christoph Butzau, Michael Boldewan, Brandt Schmidt and Klaus Lepeler, citizens of Rostock, partners of the deceased skipper Lorenz Winckelman, against Thomas Daye, merchant from England, in an appeal before the Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) about a load of fish, which the appellants were supposed to deliver from Shetland to Thomas Daye in London, but instead sold in Hamburg as they could not get to England because of the alleged incompetence of the pilot.
1577, April 6
Buxtehude
Buxtehude to king Frederick II of Denmark: request permission to sail to Iceland, on behalf of their citizens, who have already fitted out a ship and swear that they will not bring goods from Hamburg to Iceland.
[1585, after November 24]
[Hamburg]
Hamburg to king Frederick II of Denmark: answer to the king's resolution about the Icelandic trade, in which they thank him for that, and ask for privileged treatment of Hamburg merchants in Iceland, and the right to sail with two small ships annually to northern Iceland.
1587, August 23
Rye
King Frederick II of Denmark issues a new ten-years license for the Faroese trade for Jochim Wichmand, the royal factor in Hamburg and Oluf Matssön from Copenhagen, after the previous one was lost when Wichmand's ship wrecked in the Elbe near Hamburg.
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1593
Johan Vogt to the Danish council of the Realm: request for a license for the harbour Holm in Iceland on behalf of his master Luder Ottersen. The license was since 1590 held by Carsten Bake from Bremen, who cooperated with Ottersen, and now a new license is requested for Ottersen himself.
1595, July 3
Hamburg
Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for renewal of the license for the harbour Schavenforde in Iceland, on behalf of Albert Sivers, who has sailed there for many years, and the oldest son of Matthias Eggers, who drowned in the Elbe recently.
1595, July 3
Hamburg
Christoffer Bergerdorp and Hans Hering to Hamburg: request for a renewal of the license for the harbour Schavenforde in Iceland on behalf of their stepson and son-in-law Albert Sivers, who is currently there. The previous license was issued to Sivers' companion Matthias Eggers, who drowned in the Elbe on his way to Iceland. The new license should also be issued for Matthias Eggers's oldest son, who wants to sail along as well.
1595, August 22
Hamburg
Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for renewal of the license for the harbour Hofsos in Iceland on behalf of Hans Eggers, the eldest son of the deceased Matthias Eggers, who drowned in the Elbe this year. Matthias's companion Albert Sivers sent a request as well.
1601, December 13
Hamburg
Hans Steinkamp and Bernd Osthoff to Hamburg: complain how the ship of Hans Hare has shipwrecked on Helgoland on its way to Iceland, at which occasion most of their goods were lost, so that they had to cancel the journey to Iceland for this year. Because their license for the harbour Grindewick has expired, however, they ask permission to sail once more next year.
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1602, September 13
Hamburg
Cordt Weimar, Hans von Hutlen, Herman Weimar, Jurgen Jordan, Heinrich Eggers, Gise Kopman and Heinrich Ort to Hamburg: state that they had a valid license for the harbour Watlose in Iceland and had been using the harbour for a long time, as can be confirmed by the Icelandic officials.
1602, November 27
Hamburg
Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for a copy of the license for the harbour Walforde in Iceland on behalf of Heinrich Gerbrandt, Paul Focke, Michael Brautigam, Claus Makebusch, Johan Rentzel, Tonies Rode and Heinrich Smidt, after Rode and Smidt lost the license in 1601 during a shipwreck on the way back from Iceland, at which occasion skipper Joachim Greve died.
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1603, February 28
Hamburg
Merchants who used to sail to Walforde in Iceland to Hamburg: complain about the Haneforde merchants, who refuse to help them collect their outstanding debts in Iceland after their ship was lost on the Elbe, and ask for a new license from the king.
1603, March 4
Hamburg
Merchants with the harbour Walforde in Iceland to Hamburg: complain how after a shipwreck, during which they lost their license, the Danish king told them to transport their goods together with the merchants in Haneforde. As they refused because they have too many goods to transport themselves, it is requested to sail one more year to Walforde to collect outstanding debts.
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1603, April 8
[Hamburg]
Merchants who trade with Ruteforde to Hamburg: relate how they lost two ships in the last years, which forced them to leave their goods on Iceland for four years, and couldn't retrieve them because of the bad weather. Then the governor ordered them to sail back to Denmark, but a storm drove them to Hamburg, where they are not allowed to enter the harbour. Therefore, it is asked to land their goods to prevent even further damage.
1604, March 12
Hamburg
Merchants wo used to sail to Iceland to Hamburg: request for mediation with the Danish king to be allowed to sail one ship to Iceland to collect the goods, debts, and booths that are still on the island, or to transport these on a Danish ship, because they still have many outstanding debts on Iceland.
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1604, March 13
[Hamburg]
Alberdt Sivers to Hamburg: writes that he has received a letter from Helsingør merchants, asking him to sail for them to Ohrbach in Iceland, and asks the city council to permit him to leave from Lübeck to Iceland and to return to Hamburg.
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1610, September 28
Bremen
Bremen to duke John Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp: eight citizens have informed that two of their ships, one returning from Hamburg, the other from Shetland, have wrecked during a storm in the Elbe near Hadeln, whereby the goods on board were salvaged by inhabitants of Dithmarschen and Eiderstedt, and now ask for support in retrieving their goods from them.
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1659, October 6
Bremen
Herman Hausman and Henrich Eiling, councillors in Bremen, confirm that they have heard the testimonies of Herman Brunings, Gerdt and Segebad Detken, Herman Segelcken and Cort Lubbers, crew members on the ship of Herman Detken, about how they had to throw cargo overboard to save their ship in a storm on the return journey from Shetland. Also contains the testimony of Herman Detken himself.
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