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16400702SCA00

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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.

16400721SCA00

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1640, July 21

Scalloway

Andro Smyth to his brother Patrick Smyth of Braco: sends a receipt for a sum of 550 dollars which was paid by Yan Sour to Joshua Averie in Hamburg, and reports that Court Warnekin has also paid his debt of 500 dollars to the same, but forgot to bring the receipt. The Dutch have started salvaging the anchors of their ships that were attacked by Dunkirkers, and further complains about the troublesome levying of taxes and rents in Shetland.

17040400STA01

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[1704, April]

[Stade]

Friederich Bossauw to the Swedish general-governor in Stade: request for a renewal of the lost sea pass for his ship Jungfer Anna of 30 to 34 lasts, for a journey from the Schwinge to a harbour in Shetland with skipper Claus Majer, with a slightly different cargo list from the original pass.

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1704, April 9

Stade

Burgomaster and city council of Stade issue a sea pass on behalf of Friedrich Bossauw, for the ship Jungfer Anna of 30 to 34 lasts, with skipper Claus Meyer, for a journey from the Schwinge to Lerwick or Hillswick or another harbour in Shetland with a cargo of among others salt, beer, and tobacco, and back again with herring, clip- and stockfish, butter, fish oil and other commodities.