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15850307OLD00

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1585-1586

[Oldenburg]

Account book of the Oldenburg merchants trading with Iceland, containing a list of collected capital from the shipowners and merchants, directions and expenses for brewing beer, and hire amounts for the crew. Four loose leaves contain older accounts, among others for the purchase and equipment of a ship.

15940827OLD00

1594, August 27

Oldenburg

Count John VII of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: complaint about interference of Bremen merchant Hans Honne in Neswage, where he supposedly destroyed the Oldenburg booths and built his own, and interfered with the trade of Oldenburg skipper Claus Koch when he arrived there. The first part of the letter concerns the Oldenburg possession of the land of Jever.

15941214OLD00

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1594, December 14

Oldenburg

Oldenburg merchants with Iceland to the council of the count of Oldenburg: answer to a letter by Bernd Salfeld and Daniel Moers from Hamburg, concerning the payment of debts from the Icelandic trade, among others caused by the death of Claus Kock, who owned part of their ship.

16450000OLD00

After 1645

Oldenburg

Citizens of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for permission to trade with Iceland again, after the Danish king has given them toll exemptions in the Sound and in Norway, like the merchants of Holland, in 1645.