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1591, December 5
Bremen
Marten Losekanne and Johan Oldenbuttel to prince-archbishop John Adolf of Bremen: complain that they have used the harbour Ostforde in Iceland for over 80 years, and now Daniel Elers from Hamburg has received a license for the harbour Bernforde, which is in fact the same harbour, and ask for mediation at the Danish court.
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1597, September 3
Oldenburg
Harmen Kloppenburg reports that he was lucky to have arrived eight days before the Bremen merchants in Iceland, who nowadays buy all the fish in Grundeforde which used to be sold in Kummerwage. Moreover, sheriff Carsten Bake only accepted the tolls for Kummerwage and not for Neswage, which he had given to Bremen.
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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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1604, December 1
Restalrig
John Arnot to Patrick, earl of Orkney: reports that the German merchants in Shetland have brought in little money this year, and will try to sell the butter and oil to John Dick’s wife if he cannot make a deal with the Germans, and other things concerning tax payments.
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1608, October 15
[Shetland]
Chamberlain accounts for the country of Shetland for the years 1605-1607 by Alexander Bruce, including the butter and oil collected as scat and rents from the inhabitants of the land, which was sold to German merchants.
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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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[1639]
Memorandum by tacksman Andro Smyth concerning expenses and debts for the levying of taxes and customs in Shetland for the years 1638 and 1639.
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Bremen
1640, March 18
Letter from Cordt Warneken to Mr William Stirling, Edinburgh, intimating that he has received 500 thalers worth of butter from George Sinclair of Rapnes in Orkney, and paid the money to Joshua Averie on 29 November 1639 at Hamburg; writer asks that the money may be paid to William Stirling; if the money has reached Scotland recipient was to pay it to William Dick or Peter Smith, brother of Andro Smith.
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1640, June 29
Scalloway
James Omand to Laurence Sinclair of Brugh: reports about his negotiations with German merchants in Unst and Whalsay concerning the export of butter, and the attacks of privateers from Dunkirk on four Dutch ships in Bressay Sound.
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1640, July 2
Scalloway
Andro Smyth to his brother Patrick Smyth of Braco: reports about the wrecks of three Dutch ships in Dunrossness, the debts of German merchants for the export of butter, problems with the collection, storage and transportation of wadmal, and various other tax-related issues.
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