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15600720SCA00

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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.

15601031BRE00

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1560, October 31

[Bremen]

Grete Embdeman's lawyer to [Bremen]: surrejoinder to the rejoinder of Hinrick Sprenger, in a suit concerning the illegal export of inventoried goods, more concrete two coats, by Hinrick's brother Christoffer Sprenger to Shetland, which had been forbidden to him by the councillors Cordt Wachman and Rolef Reyneke.

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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, November 26

[Bremen]

Johan Runge to Bremen: in replication to the answer of Segebad Detken in the lawsuit about the use of the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, Runge states that Detken had abandoned the harbour some years before, that he could have mentioned he wanted to use it again before they set sail to Shetland, and that the other harbours were in use by other merchants, so that they had no choice but to sail on to Norway.

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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, January 28

[Bremen]

Segebad Detken to Bremen: rebutter and final plea to the surrejoinder of Johan Runge in the lawsuit about the use of the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, in which he repeats that they have used the said harbour for 40 years, of which only two years the harbour remained unused, and that his former companion Johan Cordes has secretly acquired a license, the name of which he changed to his own. Therefore, it is aked to drop all charges.

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1563, March 4

[Bremen]

Verdict of the Bremen city council in the lawsuit about the use of the harbour Baltasound in Shetland between Johan Runge and Segebad Detken, in which it is decided that the license grants the use of the said harbour for only one year, and that Runge has to prove that the harbour was unused for more than one year by Detken.

15630818BRA00

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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.

15630921EDI00

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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.