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1533, February 10

[Hamburg]

Skippers Tonnies Pinxten, Hinrick Martinus and their companions testify that they had been in Haneforde in Iceland, and had bought fish in Grindewick, but discovered that English merchant Joen Brey had marked it as being his when they came to pick it up. Thereupon they attacked the English with 180 men, together with the bailiff and the merchants from Bremen in Holm.