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1602, August 30

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: witness accounts of eight persons who sailed with Johan Holtgreve from Helsingør to Spakenefeldshovede in Iceland, who was accused by Copenhagen merchants that he interfered with their business by visiting the harbour Botsand. They tell how they could not reach Spakenefeldtshovede because of the sea ice, and were welcomed by the locals in Botsand because the Danish merchants in Kibbelwick would not trade with them.

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1603, April

[Hamburg]

Merchants who sail to Haneforde to Hamburg: reply to the complaints of the Kibbelwick merchants, in which they state that they had hired space on the Kibbelwick ship, but they were too far away and left too soon to load it, so that they had to dangerously overload their own ship.

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1603, May 5

Hamburg

Merchants who trade with Haneforde to Hamburg: although the council has ordered them to deposit the 750 mark freight money which is claimed by the Kibbelwick merchants, they will not do so until the latter have shown their account books, and that the matter is too complex to be judged by jurists who know nothing about loading a ship, so former seafarers should be involved as well. Moreover, as they will sail out, it is asked to postpone the case until after their return.