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Great Belt
Region/Country: Region/Land: , Denmark
Sea strait between the islands of Fyn and Sjælland in Denmark. Like the Øresund, ships passing through the Belt had to pay a toll to the Danish king.
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1565, January 14
Rendsburg
Stefan Loitz to king Frederick II of Denmark: asks how to pay the 60.000 daler for the Icelandic trade, among other things. The letter also deals with a horn of a fish which Cordt Blume brought with him from Iceland two years ago.
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1567, September 26
Bremen
Instruction for Tyleman Zerneman, who is sent by the Bremen city council to the king of Denmark to ask for reduction of the tolls to be paid for harbours in Iceland because of the bad fish catches of the last year, and licenses for the harbours Bodenstede, Stappe, Kummerwage, and Ostforde, and for reduction of the Sound toll on behalf of the city's Bergen merchants.
1569, February 14
Bremen
Instruction for Thomas Haverkamp and Tyleman Zerneman, representatives of the city council of Bremen to the Danish king, to discuss among others the Sound toll on behalf of the Bergen merchants and the permission for Bremen merchants to use the harbour Ostforde in Iceland.
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