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15570900SHE00

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1557, [September]

[Shetland]

Gerdt Breker obliges to Brun Oldenburg, Johan Belink, Oltman Icken, Harmen Middendorp, and Johan Ellebracht, that he will pay 150 Bremen marks to the heirs of Cordt Hemeling, and 20 daler to the foud of Shetland Olave Sinclair, because of his involvement in the death of Hemeling. He mortgages his posessions in and around Bremen, including his house and booth, and promises not to leave the ship that takes him back to Germany.

15621026BRE00

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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 10

[Bremen]

Segebad Detken to Bremen: rejoinder to the replication of Johan Runge in the lawsuit about the use of the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, in which he states that Johan Cordes once was in his service, and acquired the license for Baltasound on false pretenses behind his back, and that the Scots original will actually show that the harbour was licensed to Henrick Byleke.

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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

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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.

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1567, February 17

[Bremen]

Hermanus Schroder, Segebandus Detken, Humierus Meager and Joannes Michaelis to [Bremen]: complain about violent attacks and robbery by Scottish pirates in various harbours in Shetland in 1566, which amounts to a total damage of 1008 daler, and ask for compensation and further protection in Shetland.