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1582

[Bremen]

Luder Brummer confesses, that he has borrowed 20 daler from Magnus Schlepen to trade in Shetland on Jacob Meyer's ship, for which Schlepen shall receive 25 daler upon successful return.

16100928BRE00

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1610, September 28

Bremen

Bremen to duke John Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp: eight citizens have informed that two of their ships, one returning from Hamburg, the other from Shetland, have wrecked during a storm in the Elbe near Hadeln, whereby the goods on board were salvaged by inhabitants of Dithmarschen and Eiderstedt, and now ask for support in retrieving their goods from them.

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1619, September 27

Bremen

Bremen merchants with Shetland to Bremen: after complaints of their customers that fish from Shetland is mixed with old detoriated fish, it is asked to appoint two supervisors with experience and knowledge about the Shetland trade, to check and mark the imported packed fish.