The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . , Hanseatischen Bundes, Gottingen, 1808, p. 653.) The above wasfurther extended under date of October 3, 1504. Upon March 16, 1508,King Emanuel confirmed two letters given to two German merchantsreleasing them from imprisonment unless condemned by a supreme judge.[Ibid, p. 10.) January 22, 1510, the right of citizenship was conferred uponall resid
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . , Hanseatischen Bundes, Gottingen, 1808, p. 653.) The above wasfurther extended under date of October 3, 1504. Upon March 16, 1508,King Emanuel confirmed two letters given to two German merchantsreleasing them from imprisonment unless condemned by a supreme judge.[Ibid, p. 10.) January 22, 1510, the right of citizenship was conferred uponall resident German merchants by King Emanuel, {/bid, p. 15.) Numer-ous additional grants and privileges were issued and promulgated from1511 to 1525 in favor of the German merchants and the HanseaticLeague, such as releasing them from taxation, giving them the privilegeof conducting transactions in excess of 10,000 ducats, etc. Perhaps themost curious concession granted the German merchants in Lisbon wasthe edict of December 23, 1524. which gave them the right to dress intheir native costumes, and accorded permission for them to ride onhorses or donkeys. (Cassel, Continuation, 1776, pp. 13-14; also Sar-torius, p. 65Q.) 3 v OV < (D. German Merchants in America. 75 What was true of Portugal also applied to Spain;and as soon as definite accounts of the extent of Columbuss dis-covery reachedBurope, we findthe factories ofthe German mer-chants estab-lished at Se-ville. Long be-fore the interdictagainst non-Spaniards wasremoved, thechief commer-the grubel akms. c i a 1 establish- ment in the western world at San Domingo was inthe hands of the Augsburg merchants, who had ob-tained special concessions from the king, and who hadGerman vessels bringing cargoes back and forth.^^
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