KING HENRY IV.'S LETTER a.d. 



1407. 



the perpetuall frustration and revocation of the fore- 

 sayd priviledges, receive any stranger of any other towne 

 in their liberties, by whom the kings custome may in 

 any sort be withholden or diminished : & yet the con- 

 trary unto al these provisoes hath bin every yere, for 

 these 20. yeres or thereabout notoriously practised and 

 committed, as well joyntly by the generall counsell, and 

 toleration of the foresayd society, as also severally by 

 the advise and permission of divers particular cities of 

 the foresayd Hans company to the great diminution of 

 his majesties custome, the estimation whereof the fore- 

 sayd ambassadors are not able at this present fully to 

 declare. But that all occasions of the last above men- 

 tioned diminution may bee prevented for the time to 

 come, the sayd ambassadors doe demand to have from How many fc 

 the foresayd societie a declaration in writing, what and zuh ' u ^ ^ e the 

 what maner of territories, cities, townes, villages or 

 companies they be, for which the sayd society challengeth 

 and pretendeth, that they ought to enjoy the priviledges 

 granted unto their marchants, as is above mentioned. 



Moreover, it is required by the foresaid ambassadors, 

 if the societie aforesayd hath not decreed nor ordayned 

 the things above written, that the names of the cities and 

 places decreeing and ordaining such statutes & ordinances, 

 may by the sayd common society either now or at some 

 other times and places convenient for the same purpose, 

 be expressed and set downe in writing. 



A letter of Henry the fourth king of England 

 &c. unto Frater Conradus de Jungingen the 

 master generall of Prussia. 



HEnrie &c. to the most noble and mighty personage 

 of sacred religion Fr : Conradus de Jungingen 

 Master general of the order of the Dutch knights of S. 

 Marie, our most deare friend, greeting, and continual 

 perfection of amity. 



When as your messengers and ambassadors were of 

 late personally present in Holland, and there expected 



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