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Stockholm

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Stockholm as part of English Baltic trade

"in & bet y:e yeares of o:r Lord one thousand six hundred sixtie & one (sixtie two) sixtie three) sixtie four) & sixtie five) y:e s:d S:r W:m Rider and yo:r Orato:r as ptners in Merchandize did freight on in sewall vessells from y:e port of London to Stockholme in Sweden to Dansicke in Poland and to Riga in Sweden diverse merchandizes & comodityes in pticuler sugar Tobacco Pepper Tinne Lead Cardimmon Coales Indigoe ffrench & spanish wines & sevall other Comdityes & yo:r Orato:r cannot in pticuler menconn all w:ch had safe arrivalls & were from tyme to tyme sold to very great pfitts & great returns were made from Stockholme & other pts beyond y:e seas as y.e proceed of these merchandizes w:ch had likewise safe arrivalls at y:e port of London w:ch retorns did consist in Irons Copper XXX Plates XXX Gunnes Copper Barrs Pitch & divers other Comodityes of w:ch great pfitts was made y:e pticuler Bills of Lading Envoyces & accompts of all w:ch together w:th all the comodityes themselves did come to y.e hands of y:e s:d S:r William Rider Cocke or Alderman Backwell or some or one of them or for their uses or by their order"^[1]

Stockholm references within wiki

C5/53/26 f. 1
C5/53/26 f. 2

C5/54/40 f. 1

C5/53/78 f. 1
C5/53/78 f. 2
C5/53/78 f. 3

C6/218/65 f. 1
C6/218/65 f. 2
C6/218/65 f. 4

C10/155/38 f. 1
C10/155/38 f. 3

Suggested image sources

Detail of Hogenberg's engraving of Stockholm around 1580. Seen from north.^[2]

Stockholm. Detail of Swidde's engraving 1692^[3]

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Suggested secondary sources

Berg, Jonas and Bo Lagercrantz, 'Scots in Sweden', web publication^[4]
Staddin, Kekke, 'The masculine image of a great power: Representations of Swedish imperial power c. 1630–1690' in Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 30, Issue 1, 2005

1. ↑ 'Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder et al, C10/155/38 f. 1
2. ↑ http://www.electricscotland.com/history/sweden/16-1.htm, viewed 28/12711
3. ↑ http://www.electricscotland.com/history/sweden/17-2.htm, viewed 28/12711
4. ↑ http://www.electricscotland.com/history/sweden/index.htm, viewed 28/12/11