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[1435]
Fragment of a lawsuit of an unnamed bishop against skipper Peter Dambeke, in which it is complained by various merchants that Dambeke had left Iceland earlier than agreed and had left their commodities on land, which were spoilt or taken by the English. Therefore, a compensation is claimed of 500 English nobles.
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1469, December 31
Braunschweig
Braunschweig to Lübeck: ask legal advice in a case where their citizen Frederik Leddinghusen has freighted the ship of Bremen skipper Marten Stene for Iceland, who shipwrecked on Shetland on the journey, but still wants to receive the full promised freighting money.
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1480, July 4
Lundur (Lundareykjadalur)
24 Icelandic sheriffs and lawrightmen to King Christian I of Denmark: testify that they were at Althing and heard that the Icelanders complained about foreigners who stay in winter and sell their commodities at too high a price, and ask for the king to send a letter to confirm their grievances.
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[1514]
Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, collected for the negotiations with the Danish king in Oslo, in which the direct trade of Hamburg, Bremen and Holland with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is presented as the main reason for the Kontor's demise.
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1514, July 30
[Lübeck]
List of Johann Rode, secretary of Lübeck, with issues to be discussed during negotiations with King Christian II of Denmark in Oslo, among others that the Icelandic trade will remain as agreed upon the year before.
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[Late 1524 or early 1525]
Veere
Report of Corneille Double, secretary of the exiled King Christian II of Denmark, about the crimes of Joachim Wollenweuer, who was enfeoffed with the Faroes in 1520, against the royal authorities on the islands in the years after his enfeoffment had expired, and the attempt to arrest him in the town of Veere.
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1532, August 23
[Hamburg]
Lutke Schmidt to Hamburg: reply to the complaint of English merchants, in which he tells his version of the events in Iceland in 1532, when he arrived on March 30 with a ship in Botsand, and was visited by Thomas Hammon from Harwich, and the day after by Jon Willer from Lynn, who attacked him both.
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.
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[1535, before May 24]
[Bergen]
Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, presented at the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, among others about trade in Iceland, northern Norway, Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, which was prohibited by the royal privileges and at the Hanseatic Diet of 1494.
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1545, ca. March 20
Kolding
List of complaints of Otto Stigsson, governour of Iceland, against Hamburg merchants, among others that they behave violently, appropriate what isn't theirs, withhold payments to the governour, and use their own weights.
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