HANSE MERCHANTS' AGREEMENT ad. 



1405. 

 ought. The citizens, at the first, seemed to be inriched : 

 howbeit afterward, (no man misdoubting any such 

 calamitie) goods ill gotten were worse spent. Thus farre 

 Krantzius. 



Item, pitifully complaining, the foresaide marchants Lenne. 

 avouch, verifie, and airirme, that upon the 14. day after 

 the feast of S. George, in the yeere of our Lord next 

 above written, as 4. ships of Lenne, laden with cloth, 

 wine, and other marchandises, were sailing upon the 

 maine sea, with all the goods and wares conteined in 

 them, for Prussia, sundry malefactors of Wismer and 

 Rostok, with others of the Hans, being in divers ships, 

 came upon them, and by force of armes and strong hand 

 tooke the said ships, with the goods and marchandises 

 contained in them : and some of the people which were 

 in the saide foure ships, they slew, some they spoyled, 

 and others they put unto extreame ransomes. And 

 carying away with them those foure ships with the com- 

 modities and marchandise therin, they parted stakes 

 therwith, as them listed, to the great impoverishment & 

 losse of the said marchants of Lenne, namely in cloth of 

 William Silesden, Tho. Waterden, Joh. Brandon, Joh. 

 Wesenham, & other marchants of Lenne, to the value of 

 3623.H. 5.S. 1 i.d. 



Item, pitifully complaining the foresaid marchants doe Lenne. 

 affirme, that one Henry Lambolt and other his adherents, 

 in the yeere of our Lord 1396. tooke upon the maine sea 

 betweene Norway and Scaw, one crayer laden with 

 osmunds, and with divers other marchandises, perteining 

 unto John Brandon of Lenne, to the summe and value of 

 443. li. 4.S. 2.d. Moreover, they tooke from John 

 Lakingay 4. lasts and an halfe of osmunds, to the value 

 of 220. lib. 10. s. 



Item, the foresaid marchants complaine, that certain Lenne. 

 malefactors of Wismer, with other their complices of the 

 Hans, in the yeere of our Lord 1396. tooke from 

 Thomas Ploket of Lenne, out of a certaine ship sailing 

 upon the maine sea towards Sconeland (whereof James 



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