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Gambelwicke; Gambylweke; Gamelwick; Gammelwick; Grannelwick; im Raeff; Reeff; Ref; Refen; Reff; Reffe; Refft; Reffuit; Reffuitt; Reiff; Reven; Ríf
Region/Country: Region/Land: Snæfellsnes, Iceland
Harbour on the western tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, north of the Snæfellsjökull mountain. It was already an important harbour for the English in the 15th century, who called it Gammelwick. It was known by the Germans as Reff. The governour Björn Þórleifsson was murdered here by English traders in 1467.
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1528, September 16
[Hamburg]
Hamburg to king Henry VIII of England: complain about attacks of English merchants on the ship of Hans Schomaker in Ríf in Iceland, for which compensation is demanded.
[1531]
Note about Hamburg merchant Hans Hughe who came to the harbour Reff in Iceland on May 23, and found out that an English merchant from Harwich had bought the fish destined for him.
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1532
[Hamburg]
Lenghty complaint of Hamburg merchants against the English in Iceland, who misbehave both towards German merchants and the Icelanders, are involved in fishing activities, rob the merchants of their ships and goods, and have attacked them on multiple occasions between 1486 and 1532.
1533-1628
[Hamburg]
First donation register of the confraternity of St Anne of the Hamburg merchants with Iceland, which contains donations, mostly in fish or money, from the people on board of ships returning each year from Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes to Hamburg from 1533-1628. Also contains notes about the annual accounting of the eldermen of the confraternity.
[1533]
Summary of the case of Hans Hughe in Iceland, who was using the harbour Reff, but was hindered by a ship from Harwich, which was lying in Grundeforde, but bought all Hughe's fish, who therefore stole much of the English ship's equipment.
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[1533, February]
[Hamburg]
Detailed summary of the damages inflicted by the Germans to English ships in Iceland, with sums of the claims indicated, as presented by the English representative Thomas Lee during negotiations with Hamburg.
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[1533, February]
[Hamburg]
Summary of the damages inflicted by merchants from Hamburg and Bremen upon the English in Iceland, as presented by the English representative Thomas Lee during negotiations with Hamburg.
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1533, February 22
[Hamburg]
Defenses of Lutke Smidt and Hans Hughe from Hamburg, about the violent events involving them and English merchants in Iceland the previous year, where Smidt got into a conflict with Robert Legghe about the use of the harbour Bussand, and Hughe about an amount of fish with a certain Roland in Gammelwick.
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1535, February 27
[Hamburg]
Hamburg merchants with Iceland to Hamburg: repeat the complaints about the behaviour of the English against them in Iceland on various occasions, but accept the outcome of the negotiations in Segeberg, although they were not sufficiently compensated.
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ca. 1544
Danish counsellor Anders Bille's recommendations about the Icelandic trade, that the king shall send two ships of 100 lasts annually to collect sulfur, which the Hamburg merchants do until now, and a ship to the harbours Botsand and Reff to trade, and that the English traders in England shall pay their tolls for the Icelandic trade in the London steelyard.
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