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15320404XXX00

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1532, May 16

Iceland

Robbert Legghe and other English merchants testify that they came to Botsand in Iceland in 1532, where Lutke Schmidt from Hamburg denied them access, so that they entered the harbour by force, together with Jon Willers, after which merchants from Haneforde mediated and settled the matter.

15330200HAM01

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[1533, February]

[Hamburg]

Detailed summary of the damages inflicted by the Germans to English ships in Iceland, with sums of the claims indicated, as presented by the English representative Thomas Lee during negotiations with Hamburg.

15350524BER00

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[1535, before May 24]

[Bergen]

Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, presented at the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, among others about trade in Iceland, northern Norway, Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, which was prohibited by the royal privileges and at the Hanseatic Diet of 1494.

15390206LUB00

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1539, February 5

[Lübeck]

Lübeck to Hamburg: in response to a complaint of the Lübeck Iceland merchant Hermen Vurborn and his shipowners about Hamburg merchants, it is requested that the Hamburg merchants in Iceland will respect the free trade there by merchants from other cities.

15500630TIN00

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1550, June 30

Þingvellir

The Althing decides, concerning the complaints of merchants from Hamburg and Lübeck about governor Lorentz Mule, that Mule shall return the fish that he has confiscated, and forbids the foreign merchants in Iceland to stay in winter.