HANSE MERCHANTS' GRIEVANCES ad. 



1407. 

 ing their saide speciall Charter so graunted unto the ^ speciall 

 marchants aforesaid, do compel them to pay for straight CJiarter - 

 clothes and for pieces of clothes which are not of assise, 

 (together with other demands particularly & severally 

 made) as great custome as if the clothes were full out of 

 assise. Moreover also of late, the customers of the smal The customers 

 or pety custome & of the subsidie doe demand of them °f t}ie P et y 

 custome for kersey-clothes equal unto the custome of ' 

 those clothes, that be of ful assise, whereas the foresaid 

 marchants were not wont to pay for those kerseys by 

 vertue of their Charter, but onely according to the worth 

 of ech pound of silver, as namely for other goods 

 which are of golde weight : to the great hinderance of 

 the foresaid parties, and against the manifest graunt of 

 our soveraigne Lord the king, as it appeareth in the said 

 speciall Charter. 



Item, the said marchants alleage, that they are privi- 

 ledged by their Charter, if they pay custome and subsidy 

 for their goods in the behalfe of our lord the king, at any 

 port of England where those goods have arrived, and 

 afterward would transport the saide goods or any part of 

 them unto any other port within the realme aforesaid: 

 that then they should be quite released from paying of 

 any other custome for the same goods, if they bring a 

 warrant that they have paide the saide custome, as is 

 aforesaide. Of late it fortuned, that a certaine man of 

 their societie named Nicholas Crossehaire, being a 1405. 

 marchant of the lande of Prussia, immediatly after the 

 concord was concluded betwene the English and the 

 Prussians, brought unto the towne of Sandwich a shippe 

 laden with bow-staves and other marchandize, and there 

 well and truely paide the custome of our lord the king 

 for all his wares : and selling there part of the same goods, 

 he afterward transported parcel thereof in a small barke 

 unto London, there to be solde, and caried a warrant also 

 with him, that he had at Sandwich paid the custome due 

 unto our lord the king : & yet (the said warrant not- 

 withstanding) the customers of the pety custome & 



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