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15330000HAM00

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.

15360525HAM00

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1536, May 25

[Hamburg]

Hamburg to Jón Arason, bishop of Hólar: the merchants who come to Eyjafjörður to fetch sulfur each year complained about hindrance by merchants from Holland, who bought all sulfur, and it is asked to prevent this in the future.

15440000XXX00

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ca. 1544

Danish counsellor Anders Bille's recommendations about the Icelandic trade, that the king shall send two ships of 100 lasts annually to collect sulfur, which the Hamburg merchants do until now, and a ship to the harbours Botsand and Reff to trade, and that the English traders in England shall pay their tolls for the Icelandic trade in the London steelyard.

15450320KOL01

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1545, March 20

Kolding

Governor Otto Stigsson of Iceland replies to the complaints of the Hamburg merchants, stating that they have violated against the prohibitions on the winter stay and the keeping of fishing boats in Iceland, against which the penalty is confiscation of the boats, and that it is their own fault that they had to wait for three weeks before they could trade, as no one is allowed to trade before the first of May.

15570320LUB01

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[1557, March]

[Lübeck]

Lübeck merchants in northern Iceland to Lübeck: complain about how they wanted to sail a ship to Iceland to fetch sulfur and hired a Hamburg crew to sail it, which was forbidden by the city of Hamburg.

15610000LUB00

1561

Lübeck

Lübeck merchants with Iceland to Lübeck: complain about the prohibition to trade sulfur from the North of Iceland, which is damaging them and the locals, and was not foreseen, as the Diet in Odense had just confirmed the Hanseatic privileges. Moreover, they could not reach the harbours the year before due to drift ice, so they still have outstanding debts.

15610119EMB00

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1561, January 19

Emborg

King Frederick II of Denmark to Magnus Gyldenstiernn: relates that he has written to Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck that they shall not export sulfur from Iceland anymore, and to governor Poul Stigsen to prevent this from happening, and asks to deliver the letter to him.

15610119EMB01

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1561, January 19

Emborg

King Frederick II of Denmark to governour Poul Stigsen in Iceland: relates how he has written to Bremen, Lübeck and Hamburg that they shall not trade Icelandic sulfur anymore, and asks him to see to it that this does not happen.

15610222RIB00

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1561, February 22

Ribe

King Frederick II of Denmark to the inhabitants of northern Iceland: proclaims that all inhabitants of Iceland shall only sell their sulfur to the royal merchant, and not to foreigners anymore.

15610222RIB01

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1561, February 22

Ribe

King Frederick II of Denmark to lawman Eggert Hanssen in northern Iceland: has written a letter to all Icelanders that they shall only sell their sulfur to the royal merchant, and not to foreigners anymore, and requests to implement these regulations.