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15390703BUR00

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1539, July 3

Burravoe

Conveyance by Thomas Hacket, burgess of Dysart, to Laurence Hill, of land in Gluss in Northmavine, Shetland, which he had inherited from his late brother Robert Hacket and now sells, among others to pay the debts that Robert has with Bremen skipper Johone Baller.

15621026BRE00

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1562, October 26

[Bremen]

Johan Runge to Bremen: complaint against Segebad Detken, who has used the harbour Baltasound in Shetland, which was used by Runge with permission of the governour of Shetland the previous year, and refused them entry. Being unable to trade in Shetland, Runge then set sail for Bergen in Norway, under great losses, and demands a compensation of 400 daler.

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.

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.

16041201RES00

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1604, December 1

Restalrig

John Arnot to Patrick, earl of Orkney: reports that the German merchants in Shetland have brought in little money this year, and will try to sell the butter and oil to John Dick’s wife if he cannot make a deal with the Germans, and other things concerning tax payments.

16400508BRE00

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1640, May 8

Bremen

Bremen to Andres Brus and Nen Nyven, stewards of Unst and Yell in Shetland: request to hear witnesses in Shetland for testimonies in the court case of Segebad Detken and Marten Schnelle against Cordt and Henrich Warneken.

16540000SHE00

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[1654]

Note of tolls and customs received from Hamburg and Bremen merchants in Shetland.