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15330000HAM00

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.

15490324KOL00

1549, March 24

Kolding

[King Christian III of Denmark to Hamburg]: Writes that the Hamburg merchants are free to trade in Iceland by his permission only, and that he will continue to permit this, as long as they respect the rules and do not stay in Iceland in winter.

15570320LUB01

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[1557, March]

[Lübeck]

Lübeck merchants in northern Iceland to Lübeck: complain about how they wanted to sail a ship to Iceland to fetch sulfur and hired a Hamburg crew to sail it, which was forbidden by the city of Hamburg.

15650125KOB00

1565, January 25

Copenhagen

Summary of Hamburg arguments during the negotiations between the representative of Hamburg and the Danish council of the Realm and governour, concerning the Icelandic trade of Hamburg after the Danish king had forbidden it, as well as two ships that ran aground in Borsfleth.

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.

17040714PAR00

1704, July 14

Paris

Extract from the general admiralty register in France, concerning a sea pass issued by Swedish general-governor Nicolaus Gyldenstern to Stade citizens Friderich Bossauw, skipper Nicolas Meyer and Johan Otto Bossauw for the ship Jungfrau Anna of 30 to 40 lasts, for a journey from the Schwinge to Lerwick, Hillswick or another harbour in Shetland, and back with herring, salted and other fish, butter and knitwares, issued in Stade on April 12, 1704.

17081026LER00

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1708, October 26

Lerwick

Representation of the justices of peace in Shetland to the customs commissioners at Edinburgh: complain how the absence of foreign traders, namely the Dutch since 1703 because of the war with France, and Bremen and Hamburg merchants because of the high duties since the Acts of Union, is damaging the country, and ask for the Bremen and Hamburg trade to be stimulated until British merchants have established themselves in Shetland.