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14160524LUB00

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1416, May 24 - August 3

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which the eldermen of the Bergen Kontor complain about German sailing to Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroes, after which the gathered envoys decide that this journey is forbidden.

14341200BRU00

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[1434, December - 1435, April]

Requests of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bruges to the gathered Hanseatic representatives during negotiations in Flanders, among others that the prohibition to sail to Shetland, Orkney and the Faroes should be respected.

14341200BRU01

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[1434, December - 1435, April]

Answer of the Hanseatic representatives to requests of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bruges during negiotiations in Flanders, among others that they will discuss the complaints in the cities with the Bergen merchants, and see that the prohibition is respected.

14840120BRU00

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1484, January 20

Bruges

Eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bruges to [Danzig]: declare that the statement of Clauwes Sluck, who claimed that the Kontor has made an arrangement with the Spanish pirates who stole the ship of Hinrick Scroder from Danzig, which came from Iceland, is not true, and ask to send representatives to negotiate the matter with Spain in Bruges.

14990614BRU00

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1499, June 14 - July 20

Bruges

Danzig (Gda?sk) report of the negotiations between Hanseatic and English envoys in Bruges, in which among others the import of fish from Iceland, wine, and herring to London is discussed.

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.

15140000BER00

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[1514]

Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, collected for the negotiations with the Danish king in Oslo, in which the direct trade of Hamburg, Bremen and Holland with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is presented as the main reason for the Kontor's demise.

15190407LUB00

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1519, April 7

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Diet of the Wendish cities in Lübeck, where among others the Bergen merchants complain about the trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes by Bremen and Hamburg, which damages the Kontor in Bergen, whereupon the Hamburg representatives claim that the Icelandic fish is usually brought to England.

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.

15210919BRU00

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[1521, September 19]

[Bruges]

English complains against the Hanse, brought forth during negotiations in Bruges, among others about hindrance by Hamburg merchants in the business of merchants from Hull in the harbour Botsand in Iceland in 1423 and 1477.