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death, which likely occurred in 1559. We have previously mentioned that in the early 1500s, east of the previously mentioned Jacob Michelsen's large stone house, there was a high corner booth or property, which in the 1520s was owned by the cloth merchant Michell Huva. This booth or property, from which an annual land tax was paid, remained in the Michelsen family until it was sold to the mint master Povel Fechtel in 1542.
According to the church records, master Christiern paid an annual land tax of 12 marks to the church for the property he owned until 1549, but from 1552 the property was unoccupied and did not pay land tax. In
1559, the church sold the property for an unspecified sum of money to
the goldsmith Anders Ipsen, and the land tax ceased to be paid on the property. Anders Ipsen, the goldsmith, likely sold the property in 1560 to Jacob Michelsen's son, the aforementioned master Baltzer Jacobsen, and
he in turn sold it in 1561 to Reinicke the grocer. After the death of Jacob Michelsen's widow Anne Hansdotter in 1559, the large stone house passed on to Jacob Michelsen's grandchildren in Ystad, the so-called Ditlov sons, the councilor and later mayor Ditlov (Tilluf) Jensen and Hans Ditlovsen (Tillufsen) and their siblings. They pawned the property to the sheriff of Malmohus, from May 3, 1580, the sheriff of Bjugholm (Bygholm), Aarhus diocese in Jutland, the privy councilor Bjorn Kaas of Starups (Starrarps) for 1000 daler, the large "stone house garden" on Adelgatan, but when they could not pay the loan and redeem the pawn, Bjorn Kaas after proper sum- mons let the Ditlov sons redeem the pawn at the Malmo market the first time on November 7, 1580 and the second time on the 28th of the same month. As no one showed up at this second redemption and redeemed the pawn, the bailiff Jorgen Jensen granted Bjorn Kaas entry and possession of the property and simultaneously appointed surveyors to assess the pro- perty, Hans Kittelsmed, Hans bager, Jacob Pouelsen, Niels Matzen, Matz Olsen, Willem Andersen, Claus Hansen, Hinrick Blome, Jacob Clausen, and Arnt timmerman. At the third auction of the property on December 12 of the same year, the bailiff Jorgen Jensen at the court read a letter from the Ditlov sons stating: "We, both brothers Ditlof Jensen and Hans Tillof- sen, acknowledge that we have been summoned by the honorable Bjorn Kaas on behalf of Anders Hal in Bierese (Bjaresjo) and Lauritz Sonissen
in Belingerid (Billingarod) to the Malmo market on December 12 for the redemption of our mother's inherited property, which the honorable Bjorn Kaas has pawned for 1000 daler, which is truly the case, we sign our names below, from Ysted November 28, A:o 80." At the market in Malmo's main square on Monday, February 20, 1581, the assessors gave notice of their inspection and examination of the property both "upstairs and downstairs" and declared that they set the property's value at 800 gold daler. However, the Bjorn Kaas died in 1581 during ongoing negotiations with the Ditlov sons about the property's...
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