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14940525BRE00

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1494, May 25

Bremen

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Bremen, in which among others the merchants in Bergen complain about merchants sailing to Shetland, who mix Shetland fish with fish from Bergen, upon which it is decided that Shetland shall not be visited anymore, upon penalty of being excluded from the Hanse.

14980528BRE00

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1498, May 28

Bremen

Proceeding of the Hanseatic Diet in Bremen, in which among others the Kontor in Bergen complains about merchants sailing to Shetland and the Faroes and mixing fish from various origins, upon which the prohibition is repeated to sail to Shetland and other islands, except for Iceland, on the penalty of exclusion from the Hanse.

15020300LUB00

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1502, [between February 6 and March 26]

[Lübeck?]

[Lübeck merchants with Bergen?] to the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen: report among others about the situation in various lands, complaints of Kampen, Deventer and Zwolle about the Kontor, and that they have not received news from Bremen, nor about the Iceland merchants Kinkel and Wilde.

15070500XXX00

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[1507, May 20 - June 7]

Deventer and Kampen to the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen: complaints about the Kontor, among others about the forbidden trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes, which provides unfair competition as it brings cheap fish of inferior quality on the market, and about unfair treatment of merchants from the Zuiderzee cities by the Kontor.

15170612LUB00

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[1517, June 12 - July 13]

[Lübeck]

Report of the Kampen representatives about the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, among others that Bremen has promised to see that Shetlandic and Icelandic fish shall not be mixed.

15170614LUB00

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[1517, June 14 - July 5]

[Lübeck]

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which among others the gathered representatives emphasize that merchants in Iceland should behave peacefully towards the English, the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen complains against the Icelandic trade, and Osnabrück complains about the mixing of Shetlandic and Icelandic fish in Bremen.

15190426LUB00

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[1519, before April 26]

[Lübeck]

Representatives of the cities Deventer, Kampen and Zwolle answer to complaints of the Bergen Kontor, among others that merchants from Bremen and Hamburg are visiting the Faroes and other islands, damaging the Hanse.

15210529LUB00

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1521, May 29 - June 11

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck from May 29 to June 11, 1521, in which eldermen of the Bergen Kontor complain about illicit trade of Bremen and Hamburg in Iceland, among others.