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we refused to accept as citizens on our roll, we draw
Y.M.’s attention to the fact, that we only did what other
cities of Y.M. did, which banished such people from
foreign lands, for instance Ystad, Engilholm, Roeskilde,
and several other commercial cities in Seeland as well as
in Schonen. This was done on account of their improper
way of trading and trafficking, carrying, either themselves
or through their servants, their ware as soon as the
autumn market is over from village to village, such as
clothing and earthenware; and in the country, also
among the peasants, they barter and sell so that no
peasant henceforward needs to carry his ware to any
of Y.M.’s towns; and on account of these pedlars and
traders, who in such a manner travel about, Y.M.’s
trading-places become impoverished and ruined. In the
like manner they single out among the numerous peasantry
clergymen and certain persons, and gather and buy up all
the saleable goods they can get: such as butter, skins,
tallow, and leather, and other such things. And although
such trade has been forbidden by the King, they in spite
of it blind (förblinda) Y.M.’s officials by means of
presents and gifts./ They are therefore a nuisance and ruin to
Y.M. as well as to the trading-towns, and wherever the
said pedlars and Scots go, they give out that their home
was Malmö, which is not the case. . . . Moreover,
should Y.M. for the Kingdom’s sake require a number of
soldiers from this district (which God prevent!), be it on
land or on sea, we should not be powerful enough, nor be
able to persuade them with good words sufficient, to win
over one of them, but as soon as they notice [what is
going on] they collect their small ware and betake
themselves to the country as far as Halland, Blekingen,
Sweden, and Norway, so that Y.M. or ourselves on behalf
of Y.M. have no help or assistance from them. In the
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