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15450320KOL02

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1545, ca. March 20

Kolding

List of complaints of Otto Stigsson, governour of Iceland, against Hamburg merchants, among others that they behave violently, appropriate what isn't theirs, withhold payments to the governour, and use their own weights.

15650405LUN00

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1565, April 5

Lund

King Frederick II of Denmark to Hamburg: permits the sailing of Hamburg merchants to Iceland the coming summer, to reclaim their outstanding debts, but not to start new commercial activities.

15680306LUB00

1568, March 6

Lübeck

Lübeck to king Frederick II of Denmark: declare that Bartholomeus Tinappel's widow had only sailed a ship to Iceland to reclaim her outstanding debts.

15851124KOB00

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1585, November 24

Copenhagen

King Frederick II of Denmark confirms the rights of the Hamburg merchants in Iceland according to the resolutions of Copenhagen in 1562, and Flensburg in 1579, in which they are forbidden to trade with sulfur, are obliged to acquire a written license from the king, and have to allow others to trade there as well.

15941120FRE00

1594, November 20

Frederiksborg

King Christian IV of Denmark to count John VII of Oldenburg: the count should have been more concerned with the situation in Iceland in the past. Now the license for the harbour Neswage has been given to Bremen and cannot be made undone, but if the count will request a new license after the current license expires, the king will gladly grant it to him.

15970903OLD00

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1597, September 3

Oldenburg

Harmen Kloppenburg reports that he was lucky to have arrived eight days before the Bremen merchants in Iceland, who nowadays buy all the fish in Grundeforde which used to be sold in Kummerwage. Moreover, sheriff Carsten Bake only accepted the tolls for Kummerwage and not for Neswage, which he had given to Bremen.

16020926HAM00

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1602, September 26

Hamburg

Johann Holdtgreve to [Hamburg]: request to be released from custody on the payment of a bail, because he has heard from his merchants from Helsingør that the Danish king is in Norway, so it will take a long time before his case can be judged, and in the meantime he cannot do business.