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15621119BRE00

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1562, November 19

[Bremen]

Segebad Detken to Bremen: answer to the complaint of Johan Runge about the use of the harbour Baltasound, in which Detken states that Runge's permission to use the harbour Baltasound was only given for the year 1561, and that Detken has used the same harbour for many years before. Furthermore, as there were four other harbours available which they could have used instead, there was no need for Runge to go to Norway. Therefore, it is asked that all charges are dropped.

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.

15670217BRE00

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1567, February 17

[Bremen]

Hermanus Schroder, Segebandus Detken, Humierus Meager and Joannes Michaelis to [Bremen]: complain about violent attacks and robbery by Scottish pirates in various harbours in Shetland in 1566, which amounts to a total damage of 1008 daler, and ask for compensation and further protection in Shetland.

15670902EDI00

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1567, September 2

Edinburgh

Verdict of assize of the justiciary court in trial of James Edmistoun and John Blacader, who are accused of piracy of three ships from Bremen in Shetland, a ship from Lübeck coming from Norway, and other crimes, and convicted to execution by hanging from the market cross in Edinburgh.

16020000SHE00

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1602-1604

[Shetland]

The Court Book of Shetland 1602-1604, containing records of law courts held at parish and country levels. Among others it concerns financial transactions of many German merchants in harbours around the country, cases of conflict between merchants and violence at trading sites.

16540000SHE01

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1654

Overview of the tolls of the German merchants trading in Shetland in 1654, with note of the amounts received.