16011028HAM00
1601, October 28
Hamburg
Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: complaint about the prohibition of the Icelandic trade for foreigners, which is unfair because they have always served the local population well, and it damages the involved merchants, who still have many outstanding debts, and the poor and sick who depend on the confraternity of Iceland merchants.
Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.
Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet
Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 27 (Supplement II, no. 19)
Two bifolios.
21x33,5cm
Paper
High German
On the back: Prod(uctum) Fridrichsburg 23 novembris 1601.