HANSE MERCHANTS' AGREEMENT ad. 



1405. 



& from John Dawe, and Thomas Cornwaile marchants 

 of the same towne, three packs of woollen cloth, worth 

 200. marks. Moreover they tooke and imprisoned 

 certaine English men, which were in the said ship, 

 namely William Fubborne servant unto John Diere, 

 Thomas Mersh servant unto Robert Wight, which 

 Thomas paid for his ransome 20. nobles of English 

 money, William Munde marchant of the towne afore- 

 saide, which William, by reason of the extremity of 

 that imprisonment, lost the sight of his eyes, and 

 Thomas Cornwaile, marchant of the foresaide Towne, 

 which Thomas paide for his raunsome twentie nobles. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lorde 1394. certaine male- Vermouth. 

 factors of Wismer and Rostok, upon the coastes of 

 Denmarke and Norway, beneath Scawe, and at Anold, 

 tooke Thomas Adams and John Walters marchants of 

 Yermouth : and Robert Caumbrigge and Reginald Leman 

 marchants of Norwich, in a certaine shippe of Elbing Norwich. 

 in Prussia (whereof one Clays Goldesmith was master) 

 with divers woollen clothes of the saide Thomas, John, 

 Robert, and Reginald, to the value of one thousande 

 marks English, and carried the persons and goods afore- [I. 168.] 

 saide, away with them : and the said Thomas, John, 

 Robert, and Reginald they imprisoned at Courtbuttres- 

 sow, and there detained them, untill they paide an 

 hundred markes for their redemption. 



Item in the yeere of our Lorde 1401. some of the Yermouth. 

 inhabitants of Wismer and of Rostok wickedly tooke 

 at Longsound in Norway, a certaine shippe of West-Stowe Longsound in 

 in Zeland (the Master whereof was one Gerard Dedissen) Norwa y- 

 laden with diverse goods and marchandises of John 

 Hughson of Yermouth, namely with the hides of oxen 

 and of sheepe, with butter, masts, sparres, boordes, 

 questingstones and wilde werke, to the value of an hun- 

 dred marks, and do as yet detaine the said things in 

 their possession, some of the Hans being their assis- 

 tants in the premisses. 



Item, in the yeere of our Lorde 1402. certaine of Vermouth. 



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