HANSE MERCHANTS' GRIEVANCES ad. 



1407. 

 ordinance, in all kingdomes, provinces, partes, cities, and 

 townes, wherin any marchants of the said societie were 

 conversant. 



Item, that after that publication, the statute and 

 ordinance aforesaid by every of the marchants of the 

 forenamed society were inviolably observed. 



Item, that the said statute and ordinance hath bene so 

 rigorously put in execution, that whereas immediatly 

 after certaine English marchants with their ships, 

 mariners, and marchandize beeing in a certaine part of 

 one of the principall cities of the foresaide societie, 

 utterly destitute of meate, drinke, and money, publikely 

 offred to sell their wollen clothes of England, onely to 

 provide themselves of necessary victuals : yet the 

 marchants of the saide citie, stoutely persisting in their 

 statute and ordinance aforesaid, straightly prohibited the 

 buying of such clothes, unchristianly denying meate and 

 drinke unto the said English marchants. 



Item, the foresaid society decreed and ordained, that 

 no marchant of the saide company should in any place 

 or countrey whatsoever, buy any woollen clothes of the 

 realme or dominion of England (albeit offered by others 

 and not by English men) or, having bought any, 

 should, after the terme prefixed, sel them, imposing 

 grievous pecuniary mulcts, besides the forfeiture of the 

 clothes so bought or sold, upon them that would attempt 

 the contrary. 



Item, that after the said statute and ordinance, the 

 foresaide societie decreed, that all marchants of the said 

 companie, having among their wares and marchandise 

 any woollen clothes made in England, should either sell 

 the saide clothes, or within a short space then limited 

 should, under penaltie of forfeiting the said clothes, 

 utterly renounce the use and commoditie thereof : Not- The Hans 

 withstanding a grievous penaltie of money being imposed societie deter- 

 upon the violaters of the same statute. naneth the 



Item, that the statutes and ordinances aforesaid might °Enzlishmar- 

 with more speed and celerity be put in execution, the chants. 

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