HANSdoc Database

15140000BER00

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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.

15140730LUB00

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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.

15250000VEE00

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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.

15330617KIR00

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1533, June 17

Kirkjubøur

Bishop Amund of the Faroes to Eske Bylle, commander of Bergenhus castle: complains about merchant Jacob Wullenwever from Hamburg in the Faroes, who obstructs the trade with Bergen, and therefore the bishop will now send a ship to Bergen himself with vadmal, feathers, and other commodities.

15340530KIR00

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1534, May 30

Kirkjubøur

Bishop Amund of the Faroes to Esge Bille, commander of Bergenhus: writes that Hans Thehus has come to him with letters confirming that the Faroes have been given to Thomas Koppen from Hamburg as a fief, and demanded the payment of the taxes.

15350524BER00

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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.

16440200HAM00

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1644, February - 1645, July

Hamburg

Register of ships, skippers, freighters and cargoes sailing between Hamburg and Shetland that paid the admiralty toll in the harbour of Hamburg.

17070311STA00

1707, March 11

Stade

Burgomaster and city council of Stade issue a sea pass on behalf of Johann Otto Bossaw for his ship St. Catharina of 18 to 20 lasts, under command of skipper Lorenz Kruse, for a journey from the Schwinge to Lerwick, Whalsay, “Sickeroo” or another harbour in Shetland with beer, brandy, tobacco and flour, and back with salted fish, fish oil, butter, hides (‘Jufften’), tallow and other commodities.

17070315STA00

1707, March 15

Stade

Draft for a sea pass on behalf of Johann Otto Bossow, for his ship St. Catharina of 18 to 20 lasts, under command of skipper Lorenz Kruse, for a journey from the Schwinge to Lerwick, Whalsay, “Sickeroo” or another harbour in Shetland with beer, brandy, tobacco and flour, and back with salted fish, fish oil, butter, hides (“Jufften”), tallow and other commodities.

17070406STA00

1707, April 6

Stade

Burgomaster and city council of Stade issue a sea pass on behalf of Johann Otto Bossaw for his ship Der weisse Schwan of 48 lasts, under command of skipper Hans Heldt, for a journey from the Schwinge to Hillswick in Shetland with salt, beer, brandy, mead, meal, fishing lines, hooks, tobacco, stoneware and other commodities, and back with salted fish, herring, fish oil, butter, tallow and other commodities.