Fru Inger gives the archbishop a receipt for everything
DN 9/752 · 11 June 1534 · Bergen
What the letter says
Fru Inger Ottesdatter of Austrått declares in Bergen on 11 June 1534 that Archbishop Olav has paid her everything he owed her under two letters of obligation, in landed property, gold, silver, money, household goods, copper, tin, guns, gunpowder and everything else, movable and immovable. The first letter was made through the mediation of Nils Lykke, the second through the mediation of Vincens Lunge and Nils Lykke together. She releases the archbishop from all claims and declares all earlier letters and receipts dead and void. Her sons-in-law Vincens Lunge and Nils Lykke seal with her.
The letter in modern English
I, Inger Ottesdatter of Austrått, acknowledge with this my open, sealed letter that the most reverend father in God Lord Olav, by God's grace Archbishop of Trondheim and legate of the papal see, my gracious lord and especially good friend, has now graciously, clearly, honestly and well satisfied and paid me everything in landed property, gold, silver, money, household goods, copper, tin, guns, gunpowder and everything else, both movable and immovable, whatever it is or can be called, which his grace by the content of two of his grace's letters of obligation has owed me and been bound to until this day. The first was made and given to me through my dear son [son-in-law], the honourable, well-born man and stern knight Sir Nils Lykke, and the second later through the honourable, well-born men and stern knights Sir Vincens Lunge and Sir Nils Lykke, both given to me by his grace and placed in my hands. So I thank his grace's high worthiness for a gracious, clear, whole and complete good payment in every way, and his grace now owes me nothing at all and is bound to me in nothing, neither movable nor immovable, in any way.
Original text
Thet kendis jegh Jnger Ottisdotther till Østrotth meth thette mytth obne beseyllde breff att verdigiste y gwd fadher her Oluff meth gwdtz naade erchebisp i Trwndhem och pawelige sedis legate mynd gwnstige herre och besyndherlige gode venn haffuer nw gwnsteligen klarligen religen och vell fornøgett och betald meg ald then deell vdj iordegotz, gwld, søllff, penninge boskaffs tingh, kopper, thynn, bøsser, krudh och ald andhen deell bode i løst oc fast vdj hwadsomhelsth thet er eller neffnis kandh
Background
This is the final receipt in the settlement between fru Inger and Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson after the conflict of 1531 to 1532. Letters of obligation were letters in which the archbishop had bound himself to pay or return property, and the two sons-in-law had acted as mediators. When fru Inger declares earlier letters and receipts dead, it means they can no longer be used in lawsuits. The letter mentions landed property, and the exchange of land of March the same year was probably part of what was now settled. Three seals still hang from the letter, those of fru Inger, Vincens Lunge and Nils Lykke.
People: Ingerd Ottesdatter (fru Inger)