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14691231BRA00

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1469, December 31

Braunschweig

Braunschweig to Lübeck: ask legal advice in a case where their citizen Frederik Leddinghusen has freighted the ship of Bremen skipper Marten Stene for Iceland, who shipwrecked on Shetland on the journey, but still wants to receive the full promised freighting money.

14701230BRA00

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1470, December 30

Braunschweig

Braunschweig to Bremen: regarding the conflict between Frederik Ledinghusen from Braunschweig and skipper Martene Steen from Bremen, in which the latter claimed the full freight money from Leddinghusen for transporting commodities to Iceland, even though he shipwrecked in Shetland, the Hanseatic Diet has decided in 1447 that in such cases, only part of the freight money is due, and therefore it is asked to see that the matter is settled.

14860309LON00

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[1486, before March 9]

[London]

Complaints of English skippers and merchants about competition from the Hanse, among others that Hanseatic merchants have started to trade in Iceland and are cooperating with the Danes against the English.

15110616LUB00

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[1511, June 16 - July 5]

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which among others the German attacks on the English in Iceland are discussed, whereupon it is decided that the merchants should be admonished to refrain from such behaviour.

15140000BER00

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[1514]

Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, collected for the negotiations with the Danish king in Oslo, in which the direct trade of Hamburg, Bremen and Holland with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is presented as the main reason for the Kontor's demise.

15170614LUB00

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[1517, June 14 - July 5]

[Lübeck]

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, in which among others the gathered representatives emphasize that merchants in Iceland should behave peacefully towards the English, the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen complains against the Icelandic trade, and Osnabrück complains about the mixing of Shetlandic and Icelandic fish in Bremen.

15170720BER00

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1517, July 20

Bergen

The Hanseatic Kontor to Klaus Repenhagen, Gerd Krudup and Hans Cordes, eldermen of the Bergen merchants in Lübeck: request to present the Kontor's complaints at the Wendish Diet in Lübeck, among others about the direct trade with Iceland.

15330703ENG00

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[1534, July 3?]

[Hamburg]

Instruction for the Hamburg representatives who are sent to England to discuss the Hanseatic privileges there, and will hand over a document with suggestions for a better relation between the English and German merchants in Iceland.

15780000BRE00

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1578

[Bremen]

Clawes Monnickhusen declares that he has borrowed 12 daler from Karsten Meyer to freight Johan Munsterman's ship to Iceland, and will repay Meyer with a barrel of train oil when the ship returns.

15780323BRE00

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1578, March 23

[Bremen]

Clawes Monnickhusen declares that he has lent 15 mark from Karsten Meyer to freight Johan Munsterman's ship to Iceland, and will repay Meyer with 500 pounds of Icelandic stockfish when the ship returns.