ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1405. 



Prince and lord, Lord Henry by the grace of God king 

 of England & France, and Lord of Ireland, by the 

 communalties of the cities of Wismer and Rostok under- 

 written, their common counsel being assembled for the 

 same purpose, & authorized also, and as well closely as 

 expresly maintained and ratified, by the whole companie 

 of the common society of the marchants of the Dutch 

 Hans) doe, in this present diet at the towne of Hage 

 situate in the countrey of Holland, being appointed for 

 the very same occasion, demaund of you Syr John de 

 Aa knight, and Hermannus Meyer deputies for the cities 

 of Wismer and Rostok, and sufficiently ordeined by 

 authority requisite in this behalfe, to be the procurators 

 and messengers of the said cities, that convenient, just, 

 and reasonable satisfaction and recompense may certainely 

 and effectually be done unto the injuried and endamaged 

 parties, who are specified in the articles under written. 



Newcastle. Imprimis, that about the feast of Easter, in the yeere 



of our Lord 1394- Henry van Pomeren, Godekin 

 Michael, Clays Sheld, Hans Howfoote, Peter Hawfoote, 

 Clays Boniface, Rainbek, and many others, with them of 

 Wismer and of Rostok, being of the societie of the Hans, 



An English tooke, by maine force, a ship of Newcastle upon Tine, 

 called Godezere sailing upon the Sea towards Prussia, 

 being of the burthen of two hundred tunnes, and 

 belonging unto Roger de Thorneton, Robert Gabiford, 

 John Paulin, and Thomas de Chester : which ship, 

 together with the furniture thereof amounteth unto the 

 value of foure hundred pounds : also the woollen cloth, 

 the red wine, the golde, and the summes of money 

 contained in the said ship amounted unto the value of 

 200. marks of English money : moreover they unjustly 

 slew John Patanson and John Russell in the surprising of 

 the shippe and goods aforesaid, and there they imprisoned 

 the sayde parties taken, and, to their utter undoing, 

 detayned them in prison for the space of three whole 

 yeeres. 



■ Hu '- / - Item, that in the yeere of our Lorde 1394. certaine 



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