HANSE MERCHANTS' AGREEMENT a.d 



1405. 



Item, in the yere of our Lord 1395. about the feast Cky. 

 of the nativitie of S. John Baptist, the forenamed 

 Godekin and Stertebeker, with others their accomplices 

 of the Hans, unlawfully took upon the sea a certain 

 ship of Nicholas Steyhard and John Letis of Cley called 

 the Nicholas (wherof John Prest was master) and con- 

 veyed the said ship unto Mawstrond, and there robbed 

 the said master and his companie of divers commodities, 

 namely of furniture and salt fishes, being in the said 

 ship, to the value of 320. nobles. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1395. about the feast Cley. 

 aforesaid, the said Godekins and Stertebeker, & their 

 companions of the Hans unjustly took upon the sea a 

 certaine ship of Thomas Peirs of Cley called the Isabel 

 (whereof William Noie was master) and conveyed it unto 

 Mawstrond, and there robbed the said master and his 

 company of divers commodities, as namely of furniture, 

 and salt fishes, being in the said ship, to the value of 

 406. nobles. 



Item, in the yeere next above mentioned, upon the Cley. 

 Saterday, about the foresaid feast, the forenamed Gode- 

 kins and Stertebeker, and other their accomplices of the 

 Hans unlawfully took upon the sea, a certain ship of one 

 Thomas Lyderpole of Cley, called the Helena, wherein 

 Robert Alwey was master, and also wickedly and unjustly 

 drowned in the bottom of the sea divers commodities, 

 as namely salt fishes, together with the ship it selfe. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1398. about the feast Cley. 

 of S. Michael the archangel, the foresaid Godekin & 

 Stertebeker, with other their confederats of the Hans, 

 took at Langsound in Norway a certain crayer of one 

 Thomas Motte of Cley, called the Peter, (wherein Thomas 

 Smith was master) & the foresaid crayer they wickedly 

 and unjustly caried away, being worth 280. nobles. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1395. about the feast Wiveton. 

 of the nativitie of S. John Baptist, the forenamed Gode- 

 kins and Stertebeker, and others of the Hans unjustly 

 tooke a certain ship of Simon Durham, called the 

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