1588
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- The rolls of the Scottish exchequer listed duties due from the lordship of Zetland:
- for the dewetie callit wedmell, 167 packis
- for the butter dewetie, 6 lastis 6 barrellis
- for the dewetie of oylie, 2 lastis
- for the dewetie callit wattill, ane hundrethe fyve dolloris at threttie schillingis the peice ; summa £157 10s.
- for the toill or custoum of schippis arryving yeirlie within the cuntrie of Zetland, ane hundrethe and tuentie angell nobillis at £4 four pound the peice, and tuentie dollouris at 30s. the peice ; summa £510.
- for the augmentatioun of the fewferme of the saidis lordschipis yeirlie £13 6s. 8d.
September
- 27th
Spanish Armada store ship, El Gran Grifon, wrecked on Fair Isle. The 300 crew and soldiers who came ashore, were stranded on the Isle for some time. 50 of the men died there and are buried in the 'Spaniards Grave'.
