THE PRUSSIAN AMBASSADORS a.d. 



1388. 



as their captives unto an haven of England called Sand- 

 wich. Who, being afterward released, were compelled 

 to sweare, that they should not declare ye injuries 

 offred unto them, either before your roiall majesty, or 

 your hon. Councell, or your chancelor : neither were 

 they permitted to come on shore. And being ofFred 

 such hard measure, when they made pitiful mones & 

 complaints unto your foresaide subjects, amongst other 

 matters they spake on this wise unto them : Do you 

 complain of injuries & losses offered unto you ? Loe, 

 in your own countrey of Prussia there are English 

 marchants, & goods sufficient, go your waies home 

 therfore, & recover your losses, taking two for one : 

 and in this maner they were left, & so departed. 

 Afterward returning unto ye land of Prussia, they & 

 their friends repaired unto the Mast, general, jointly & 

 w 1 one consent making their complaint unto him of the 

 losses which had bin inflicted upon them by your 

 subjects. And prostrating themselves at his feet, they 

 all and every of them made their humble sutes, y l 

 he would have compassion on them, as upon his 

 poore subjects, regarding them selves, their wives, & 

 children, and pitying their distres, and penury, and that 

 he would graciously procure some redresse for them. 

 And when he offred his letters unto them, wishing 

 them to prosecute their cause before your highnes, they 

 answered that they were no way able to defray the 

 expenses, and that others, who were in like sort 

 damnified, had laboured that way altogether in vain & 

 to no purpose : beseeching him again and again, that 

 he would by another kind of means, namely by arresting 

 of your marchants and their goods, procure them resti- 

 tution of their losses. At length the Master general The arresting 

 being moved bv so many and so great complaints, and °f th f En 8 ltsh 



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by the molestation of his subjects, caused (albeeit full marc jj antSm 

 sore against his will) a certaine portion of English 

 marchants goods to be laid hold on, and to be arrested, 

 in his cities of Elburg & Dantzik, and to be bestowed 



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