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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 12 March 2009 - Volume 03<br>
===========================================</span></p>

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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: History<br>
<br>
Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
I mentioned the Likedeeler pirates:<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The crews
led by the Liekedeeler pirates (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likedeeler">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likedeeler</a>) Klaus
Störtebeker (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_St%C3%B6rtebeker">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_St%C3%B6rtebeker</a>), Gödeke
Michels (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6deke_Michels">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6deke_Michels</a>), Henning Wichmann (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennig_Wichmann">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennig_Wichmann</a>),
Master Wigbold (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magister_Wigbold">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magister_Wigbold</a>) and others had a
limited reach and clearly spoke Middle Saxon, though there seem to have been
Frisians among them (and Störtebeker's wife was Frisian).</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">There is a
copy of the contract of reparation between England's
Henry IV and the Hanseatic League:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/hakluyt/voyages/v05/chapter11.html">http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/hakluyt/voyages/v05/chapter11.html</a><br>
<br>
It contains a litany of alleged sins committed by the Hanseats, their
privateers and the pirates.</span></p>

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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA <br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>

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