HANSE MERCHANTS' AGREEMENT ad 



1405. 



other goods, to the value of 30.S. Item, he paide for 

 his ransome 4. lib. 13.S. 4-d. 



Unto all and singular the articles above-written, the 

 ambassadors of England aforesaid do further adde, that 

 the doers and authors of the damages, injuries, and 

 robberies set down in the articles above written, (of Note the sc ~ 

 whom some are named in particular, and others in ^fj^^l 

 general) performed and committed all those outrages, 

 being hired thereunto at the expenses and charges of the 

 common societies of the cities aforesaid. And that the 

 inhabitants of every houshold in the foresaide cities (ech 

 man according to his ability) wittingly & purposely set 

 foorth one, two, or more men, for the very same ex- 

 pedition, wherein all and singular the foresaid trespasses 

 were committed. 



The foresaid English ambassadors doe exhibite the 

 articles above-written unto the procurators of the cities of 

 Wismer and Rostok aforesaid : leave and libertie being 

 alwayes reserved unto the said ambassadors, to enlarge, or 

 to diminish, or to expound all, or every, or any of the 

 said Articles whatsoever, so often as it shall seeme 

 expedient unto them. 



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