ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1403- 



England and France &c. betweene the reverend father 

 Henrie bishop of Lincoln, chancelor, and the right 

 honorable William lord de Roos, high treasurer of Eng- 

 land, both of them counsellers unto the sayd soveraigne 

 king on the one party, and the right worshipfull John 

 Godeke, and Henrie Moneke, sent as messengers by the 

 right reverend and religious personage, Frater Conradus 

 de Jungingen Master generall of the Dutch knights of 

 the Order of S. Mary on the other party : it was, at the 

 request and instancie of the sayd messengers, appoynted, 

 and mutually agreed upon, that all the liege people and 

 subjects of the sayd soveraigne lord and king shall have 

 free licence and liberty untill the feast of Easter next 

 ensuing, safely to travel unto the land of Prussia afore- 

 sayd, there to remaine, and thence, with their ships, 

 marchandises, & other their goods whatsoever, to returne 

 unto their owne home : which on the other side, all the 

 subjects of the sayd Master general may, within the 

 terme prefixed, likewise doe, in the foresaid realme of 

 England. Provided alwaies, that after the time above 

 limited, neither the sayd marchants of the realme of 

 England may in the land of Prussia, nor the marchants 

 of that land, in the realme of England, exercise any 

 traffique at al : unles it be otherwise ordained by some 

 composition, betweene the foresaid king of England, & 

 the said Master general in the meane time concluded. 

 In witnesse wherof, one part of this present Indenture 

 is to remaine in the custodie of the foresaid messengers. 

 Given in the Chapter-house of the Church of S. Paul at 

 London, the day and yere above written. 



The letters of the chancelor and treasurer of 

 England, unto Frater Conradus de Jungingen, 

 master generall of Prussia 1403. 



Ight reverend and mighty lord, your honorable 



messengers John Godeke, and Henry Moneke, the 



bearers hereof comming of late before the presence of 



our most sovereigne lord the king of England and of 



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