ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1407. 



subsidy of London came & demanded custome of him at 

 another time contrary to reason, & against the tenor of 

 their charter : and the said Nicholas offred pledges unto 

 them, yea, even ready money downe into their hands, 

 until the question were discussed and determined, whether 

 he should pay new custome or no : but this they would 

 not doe. Then the said Nicholas brought a brief from 

 our lord the king, to get himselfe discharged from paying 

 the said custome : and for all that, the foresaid customers 

 would not as yet have regard unto him, but kept the said 

 goods within shipboord, upon the river of Thames, for 

 the space of 15. dayes, until he had paid another custom, 

 to the great losse of the said Nicholas, for that which he 

 sold first at Sandwich to be delivered at London for 

 seven nobles, he could not afterward have for it above 

 foure nobles, and yet so was it solde, by reason of the 

 harme which his wares had taken by lying so long upon 

 the water, contrary to the tenor of their Charter. 



Item, the said marchants do alleage, that another of 

 their company called Peter Hertson bought at Bristow 

 certain clothes, & laded the same in a ship, to be trans- 

 ported for Prussia, for the which he truely paide at 

 Bristow, the customs & subsidies due unto our soveraign 

 lord the king : which ship with the foresaid goods arriving 

 at London : the customers of the pety-custome and of 

 the subsidie there would not permit the said ship with the 

 goods to passe unto the parts aforesaid, until the said 

 Peter had paid another custome for the same goods (the 

 warrant, which he brought with him notwithstanding) to 

 his great hinderance, and contrary to the tenour of their 

 Charter. 



Item, pitifully complaining the foresaid marchants al- 

 leage, that wheras every marchant, bringing wares into the 

 realm, was wont to have a schedule wherein his name was 

 written, for a specification & certificat of the quantity of 

 his goods in the said schedule to be found at the arrival 

 of the ship, without paying therfore ought at all, of late 

 the customers of the pety custome do compel them to pay 



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