THE ENGLISH AMBASSAGE ad. 



1403. 



order and composition aforesayd, notwithstanding. How- 



beit in any other affayres whatsoever, devoutly to submit 



our selves unto your highnesse pleasure and command, 



both our selves, and our whole order are right willing and [I. 1 5+-] 



desirous : and also to benefite and promote your subjects 



we wil indevour to the utmost of our ability. Given in 



our castle of Marienburg in the yeare of our Lord 1398, 



and upon the 22. day of February. 



Frater Conradus de Jungingen, master generall of 

 the Order of the D 

 hospital at Jerusalem. 



the Order of the Dutch knights of S. Maries 



A briefe relation of William Esturmy, and John 

 Kington concerning their ambassages into 

 Prussia, and the Hans-townes. 



INprimis, that in the moneth of July, and in the 1403. 

 yeare of our Lord 1403, and the fift yeare of the 

 reigne of our sovereigne Lord the king that nowe is, 

 there came into England the ambassadours of the 

 mighty lord Fr: Conradus de Jungingen, being then 

 Master general of Prussia, with his letters directed 

 unto our foresayd sovereigne lord the king, requiring 

 amends and recompense for certaine injuries unjustly 

 offered by English men unto the subjects of the sayd 

 Master generall, written in 20. articles, which amounted 

 unto the summe of 191 20. nobles and a halfe &c. 



Item, that the third day of the moneth of October, 

 in the yeare of our Lord abovewritten, and in the 

 fift yere of the reigne of our soveraigne lord the 

 king, between the reverend father in God, Henrie 

 then bishop of Lincolne lord chancelor, and William 

 lord de Roos high treasurer of England, on the one 

 party and the sayd ambassadours on the other party, it 

 was (according to their petition) amongst other things 

 ordayned : namely that the liege people of our 

 soveraigne lord the king should freely be permitted, 

 untill the feast of Easter then next after ensuing to 



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