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15330205HAM01

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1533, February 5

[Hamburg]

Answer of Hamburg's city council to the complaints by the English representative about the violence of Hamburg merchants against the English in Iceland.

15330210HAM01

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1533, February 10

[Hamburg]

Skippers Tonnies Pinxten, Hinrick Martinus and their companions testify that they had been in Haneforde in Iceland, and had bought fish in Grindewick, but discovered that English merchant Joen Brey had marked it as being his when they came to pick it up. Thereupon they attacked the English with 180 men, together with the bailiff and the merchants from Bremen in Holm.

15330303HAM00

1533, March 3

Hamburg

Hamburg secretary Herman Rover to Gerdt Nigebur, merchant in London: has discussed with his partners Hans Hesterberch and Herman van der Huden and the English ambassador about the Icelandic fishes that were confiscated in England, for which a compensation of 500 pound sterling is demanded, although they are only worth 100 pounds.

15330305HAM00

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1533, March 5

Hamburg

[Hamburg to king Henry VIII of England:] request to return the fish from Hans Hesterberch and Hermann van der Hude, which was confiscated in England on the presumption that it belonged to Jon Breyen, from whom it was stolen in Iceland.