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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. IX.
an embassy to Denmark—Master William Spreen, doctor
of both laws; Sir John Grimsby, Knight: the
plenipotentiary powers are dated Westminster, November 27,
9th year of the reign, and signed by Humphrey Duke of
Gloucester, England’s “ custos.” There were some little
grievances to settle, but I don’t see the King of England
got much advantage by it; for though he is very civil
and talks about the relationship through the
highborn Philippa, consort of his “ good friend ” King Erik,
and a lot more beside, he is met by a storm of
complaints against the English shipowners, who for the last
twenty years have sailed and fished in unlawful seas,
and trafficked with the islands—Iceland, Färoe,
Shetland, Orkney, Greenland, &c.—fancy Denmark
forbidding us to sail and trade to the Orkneys, or anywhere!
—the complaint ending in a “ summarium ” of the
damage caused during the said twenty years, which
amounts to 2329 “ læster fisk ”—pounds of fish—each
pound being equal to sixteen of the present day: add
to this a few more “ damages,” and the “ summa
summarium” of the bill presented is 217,348 rose nobles.
Strange to relate, the English Government declined to
liquidate the debt. Some two years later, however,
Henry VI. forms a treaty of alliance with “ his dearest
uncle, the King of Denmarkno end of matters
promised on both sides, to which, in all probability,
neither paid the slightest attention.
But to return to the Slot. Molesworth, in speaking
of Copenhagen, says, with the exception of the buildings
of Christian IV.’s time, they are all mean and of “ cage
work,” half timber, half plaster. The palace he
describes as the worst in the world, inferior to those of
the nobility; it was a fine old feudal schloss, adapted
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