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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.

15621126BRE00

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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.

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.