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HANSE MERCHANTS' AGREEMENT a.d. 



1405. 



of the said Simon, being in the foresaid ship, to the 

 value of 66. pounds. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1397. certaine male- Wiveton. 

 factors of Wismer and Rostok, with certaine others of 

 the Hans, tooke a crayer of one Peter Cole of Zeland, 

 called the Bussship, which Alan Barret the servant and 

 factor of the foresaid Simon Durham had laden with 

 mastes, sparres, and other marchandize, for the behalfe 

 of the said Simon, and unjustly tooke from thence the 

 goods of the said Simon, to the value of 24. pounds, 

 and caried the same away. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1394. certaine male- Lenne. 

 factors of Wismer and others of the Hans unjustly 

 tooke upon the sea, and caried away with them a packe 

 of woollen cloth of the foresaid Simon, worth 42. pounds, 

 out of a certain crayer of one Thomas Fowler of Lenne 

 being laden and bound for Dantzik in Prussia. 



Item, pitifully complaining the marchants of Lenne Lenne. 

 doe avouch, verine, & affirme, that about the feast of 

 S. George the martyr, in the yeere of our Lord 1394. 

 sundry malefactors and robbers of Wismer & Rostok, 

 and others of the Hans, with a great multitude of ships, 

 arrived at the towne of Norbern in Norway, and tooke 

 the said town by strong assault, and also wickedly and 

 unjustly took al the marchants of Lenne there residing 

 with their goods and cattels, and burnt their houses and 

 mansions in the same place, and put their persons unto 

 great ransoms : even as by the letters of safeconduct 

 delivered unto the said marchants it may more evidently 

 appeare, to the great damage and impoverishment of the 

 marchants of Lenne : namely, Inprimis they burnt there 21. houses of 

 21. houses belonging unto the said marchants, to the English mar- 

 value of 440. nobles. Item, they tooke from Edmund t ^ or h ern ; n 

 Belyetere, Thomas Hunt, John Brandon, and from other Norway. 

 marchants of Lenne, to the value of 18 15. pounds. 



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