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15600720SCA00

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1560, July 20

Scalloway

Olave Sinclair, governour of Shetland, permits the use of the harbour Baltasound in Unst, Shetland, to the merchant Johan Cordes from Bremen in the year 1561. One of the Low German translations is issued to Heinrick Byllen.

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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, 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, 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

Brow

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.