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5. Peder goldsmith's property (the western part of number 348, the middle part of number I), an area from south to north of 3 alnar 1 quarter and from west to east of 17 alnar; purchase price of 55 mark 4 shillings.
6. Jacob Guldsmed's property (the corner property, the eastern part of number 348, the eastern part of number I) is an area from south to north of 3 alnar and from west to east of 11 alnar; purchase price of 33 marks.
Sometime between 1527-32, Anders Harcke sold his property with the attached booth to the merchant from Lybeck, Povel Fechtell, who was later the mint master in Copenhagen from 1541, who rented the property and booth during the 50 years he owned the property. In 1532, Povel Fechtell paid 21 1/2 marks in annual land tax to the church, but in 1536 the land tax was reduced to 10 marks, and remained at that amount during the following years. However, in 1547, Povel Fechtell redeemed the property along with the booth from the annual land tax by paying an unspecified amount, which was accepted by the city to be used for the completion of the main square, and thereafter the city of Malmo paid the annual land tax of 10 marks to the altar fund, "until there is compensation again." Coun- cilman Jacob Michelsen, owner of the large stone house with the adjoining property on Kirkestredet and the two eastern corner booths on Adelgatan, was married twice, first to a woman of unknown name, and second to Anne Hansdotter, daughter of a citizen named Anders. With his first wife, he had two daughters, one of whom, Else Jacobsdotter, was first married
to the wealthy Malmo citizen Christopher Matsen, who was still alive on November 15, 1533, and then probably in 1534 to the canon in Lund, the printer in Malmo, the learned master Christiern Pedersen. The second daughter, of unknown name, was married to a person named Jens and became the mother of Councilman Ditlov (Tilluf) Jensen and Hans Ditlov- sen in Ystad, among others. With his second wife Anne Hansdotter, Jacob Michelsen had a son, Baltzer Jacobsen, born in 1524, who became a philo- sophy master and dean in Lund in 1562, and died there in 1585.
Jacob Michelsen is mentioned for the last time on Monday, November 15, 1533, when he, Jacob Guldsmed (goldsmith), and his nephew Christoffer Matsen each bought one third of and for 205 marks 9 shillings 2 pence, the silver items in the estate of the deceased young goldsmith Peder Jepsen, valued together at 616 marks 13 shillings 3 pence, before the city council and mayor in the city hall. Not long after, likely in 1534, Jacob Michel-
sen passed away, and his estate seems to have been, if not bad, then quite debt-ridden. At his death, his nephew Christoffer Matsen had also passed away and his daughter Else had remarried to Christiern Pedersen. The co- heirs of Jacob Michelsen's estate were, besides his widow Anne Hansdot- ter, his daughter Else from his first marriage and her husband Christiern
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