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15180619LUB00

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1518, June 19 - July 14

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which among others it is decided that Hanseatic merchants are only allowed to trade in Iceland when they bring the fish to England, and that the merchants should behave peacefully towards the English.

15390320HAM00

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1539, March 20

Hamburg

Claus von der Marwitz to Melchior Rantzau, marshal of the Danish king: reports about Icelandic complaints about misbehaving English merchants in Iceland, and how the matter was treated by the Danish and English king.

15440000XXX00

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ca. 1544

Danish counsellor Anders Bille's recommendations about the Icelandic trade, that the king shall send two ships of 100 lasts annually to collect sulfur, which the Hamburg merchants do until now, and a ship to the harbours Botsand and Reff to trade, and that the English traders in England shall pay their tolls for the Icelandic trade in the London steelyard.

15871231BRE00

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1587, December 31

Bremen

Bremen to king Frederick II of Denmark: describe how a ship coming back from Iceland to Bremen, which among others had stockfish on board destined for the king, was attacked by English pirates near Shetland. Now it has become clear that the ship is on the Isle of Man, support of the king is requested in retrieving it.

16611112BRE00

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1661, November 12

Bremen

Bremen merchants with Shetland to Bremen: complaint about the unrightful collecting of excises on salt and beer, which is brought but not sold there, by Gideon and David Murray in Shetland, and request for mediation with the English king for compensation of the suffered losses and prevention of these excises in the future.