THE PRUSSIAN AMBASSADORS ad. 



1388. 



(most sovereigne Prince) certaine other things we have 

 to propound unto your Grace, in the name & behalfe 

 of our saide Master and Order, by way of complaint, 

 namely, that at certaine times past, and especially within 

 the space of x. yeres last expired, his subjects and 

 marchants have sustained sundry damages and ablations 

 of their goods, by divers subjects and inhabitants of 

 your realme of England, and that very often, both by 

 sea and land : the which, for the behalf, and by the 

 appointment of the Master general aforesaid, & of his 

 predecessor, are put downe in registers, and recorded 

 in the writings of his cities in the land of Prussia. Of 

 which parties damnified, some have obtained letters from 

 the Master general that now is, & also from his pre- [I. 149.] 

 decessor, unto your renoumed grandfather K. Edward Edward the 3. 

 of famous memory, and sundry times unto your high- 

 nes also, to have restitution made for their goods 

 taken from them : whereby they have nothing at al 

 prevailed, but heaping losse upon losse have misspent 

 their time & their charges : both because they were 

 not permitted to propound & exhibit their complaints 

 & letters before your majesty, and also for divers other 

 impediments. Certain of them also considering how 

 others of their countriemen had laboured in vain, & 

 fearing the like successe, have troubled the Master 

 general very often with grievous and sundry complaints, 

 craving & humbly beseeching at his hands, that he 

 would vouchsafe graciously to provide for them as his 

 faithful & loial subjects, as touching the restitution of 

 their losses : especially seeing y l so much wealth of 

 the English marchants was every yeere to be found in 

 Prussia, as being arrested, they might obtaine some 

 reasonable satisfaction for their losses. Which thing 

 the Master general aforesaid & his predecessor also have 

 deferred unto this present (albeit to ye great losse of 

 their subjects) therby having meere & principal respect 

 unto those special curtesies and favours which your 

 excellent Majesty & your worthy progenitors have 



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