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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>I wrote under "Etymology":<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<i>... dat se dat gud vmme rede gelt koft hebben ...</i><br>(... that they <u>had bought</u> the estate with cash ...)<br>[document from London's Steelyard (1303-1469]<br></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In this context it's better to translate it "... that they had bought the merchandise with (ready) cash ...".</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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We are talking about the Steelyard, a compound in London on the north bank of the Thames by the outflow of the Walbrook, close to Cannon Street Station. It was the Hanseatic Trading League's walled compound with warehouses, offices, counting houses, weighing houses, a chapel and residential quarters. As a regular church, the residents used All-Hallows-the-Great, which was destroyed in the fire of 1666. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">My dates were wrong. 1303 seems correct. Elizabeth I recinded the Hanseatic privileges in 1598, because the merchants were much too successful and thus competed with the city. James I reinstated them, but the Steelyard never regained its greatness. It was never dissolved and officially functioned as a sort of informal North German embassy to Whitehall until after the Napoleonic Wars during whose European Blockade it came in handy. The Hanseatic cities Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck appointed the Scottish merchant Patrick Colquhoun to their resident minister and consul general while they were being occupied by France until 1815. The three cities, that had shared the Steelyard, sold the property in 1853, and Cannon Street Station was built on that site in 1866.</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelyard#cite_note-3"><span></span></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> In 1988, remnants of the Steelyard's trading house were discovered, and a plaque now commemorates the site.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Hanseatic communities in Britain used to be located in Aberdeen, Berwick upon Tweed, Boston, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth, Hull, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Newcastle and York.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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