ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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towne of Dantzik, & John Crolowe, for the behalf of 

 your subjects of Prussia, and Tidman de Meule, & John 

 Epenscheid for the behalfe of Livonia, being assembled 

 as messengers and commissioners about the redresse and 

 reformation aforesayd, did then and there demaund in 

 certaine articles, of our ambassadours and messengers 

 abovenamed 25034. nobles & half a noble, for the 

 grievances & damages offered (as it was then said) to 

 your subjects of Prussia, and 24082. nobles, 12.S. 8d. 

 [I. 177.] in recompense of the damages offered unto those your 

 subjects of Livonia. And when the substance of those 

 articles about the grievances & losses aforesayd was by 

 the sayd ambassadours and messengers throughly exa- 

 mined and discussed, by their generall consent it was 

 finally agreed, that your subjects, in consideration of all 

 and singular the foresayd grievances and damages offered 

 unto them by our people, should within three yeares 

 after the feast of Easter next ensuing, at three equall 

 payments receive from us, namely they of Prussia, 8957. 

 nobles, and they of Livonia 22496. nobles, sixe pence, 

 halfe peny, farthing, and no more, so that we our selves 

 thought good to condescend thereunto. Howbeit, for- 

 asmuch as certaine other articles of your subjects of 

 Prussia, and also certaine articles in the behalfe of our 

 subjects containing grievous complaints in them, being 

 propounded before the ambassadors & messengers afore- 

 said, for the attaining of reformation in regard of the 

 damages & grievances offered on both parts, could not 

 as then, for the great obscurity of divers of the sayd 

 articles, and also for want of sufficient proofe at the 

 last meeting appointed and held by the foresayd ambas- 

 sadors at the towne of Hage in Holland, sufficiently to 

 be examined, discussed, and defined, it was agreed upon 

 by the ambassadors and messengers of both partes, that 

 from the 15. day of October then last expired unto the 

 feast of Easter now next ensuing, and from thenceforth 

 within one whole yere immediatly following, the plain- 

 tifes of both parts should throughly declare before our 



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