ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1403. 



remaine in the land of Prussia, and from thence with 

 their goods & marchandises to returne unto their own 

 home : and also, that the subjects of the sayd Master 

 generall in the kingdome of England should have 

 licence and liberty to doe the like. Provided alwayes, 

 that after the time above limitted, neither the English 

 marchants in the land of Prussia, nor the Prussian 

 marchants in the realme of England should use any 

 traffique of marchandise at all, unlesse in the meane 

 space it were otherwise agreed and concluded by the 

 sayd king and the sayd Master general. 



Item, immediately after our sayd soveraigne lord the 

 king sent his letters by John Browne marchant of Lin 

 unto the foresayd Master generall, for to have mutuall 

 conversation and intercourse of dealing to continue 

 some certain space, betweene the marchants of England 

 and of Prussia : promising in the same letters, that he 

 would in the meane season send unto the foresayd 

 Master his ambassadors to intreat about the pretended 

 injuries aforesaid : which letters the foresayd Master, 

 for divers causes, refused to yeelde unto, as in his 

 letters sent unto our lord the king, bearing date the 

 16. day of the moneth of July, in the yeare of our 

 lord 1404. more plainely appeareth. 



Item, that after the receit of the letters of the 

 Master aforesaid, which are next above mentioned, our 

 sayd king, according to his promise, sent William 

 Esturmy knight, M. John Kington clerke, and William 

 Brampton citizen of London, from his court of parlia- 

 ment holden at Coventrie, very slightly informed, as his 

 ambassadours into Prussia. 



Item, before the arrivall of the sayd ambassadours in 

 Prussia, all intercourse of traffique betweene the English 

 and the Prussians, in the realme of England, and in 

 the land of Prussia was altogether restrained and pro- 

 hibited : and in the same land it was ordayned and put 

 in practise, that in whatsoever porte of the land of Prussia 

 any English marchant had arrived with his goods, he 



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