"When therefore we were come within near half a day's sail of the port of Tramuend, in the territory of Luebeck, then the Keelmaster or Skipper made his reckoning according to custom, after which the Bailiff resigned the command which he had held with the following words: 'Whatsoever hath passed and befallen on shipboard all this time, each man should forgive to everyman his fellow, overlook it, and let it be dead and gone, even as I for my part am glad to do; for, whatsoever doom I and my assessors may have given, all must needs be so dealt and kept for judgment's and justice' sake. Wherefore I beseech all and singular, with regard to all our honest judgments, that each will lay aside such enmity as he may have conceived against another, and swear an oath by salt and bread that he will never more think bitterly of that matter."
T. D. Wunderer (1590) [Fichard, Frankfurtisches Archiv, Band II, S. 245].
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