KING HENRY IV.'S LETTERS a.d. 



1408. 



with the summes due unto them by reason of their 

 losses, whereof they have sufficient information. Where- 

 fore in regard of those your friendly letters, and your 

 courteous answere returned by them unto us, as is 

 aforesaid, wee doe yeelde unto you right unfained 

 thanks. But because it will undoubtedly be most 

 acceptable and pleasing both unto us and unto our 

 people, and unto you and your subjects, that the zeale 

 and fervencie of love which hath from auncient times 

 growen and increased betweene our progenitours for 

 them and their subjects, and your predecessors and 

 their subjects, and which by the insolencie of certayne 

 lewde persons, without any consent of the principall 

 lords, hath often bene violated betweene us and you 

 and mutually betweene the subjects of us both, may 

 be put in perpetuall ure and obtaine full strength in A motion for 

 time to come, sithens hereupon (by Gods assistance) a P er P etuaU 

 it is to be hoped, that unspeakeable commodity and 

 quiet will redound unto both parts : may it seeme 

 good unto your discretion, as it seemeth expedient unto 

 us, that some messengers of yours sufficiently authorised 

 to parle, agree, and conclude with our deputy, about 

 the mutuall contraction of a perpetuall league and con- 

 firmation of friendship, may with all convenient speede 

 be sent unto our presence. At whose arrivall, not onely 

 in this busines so profitable and behoovefull, but also 

 in certaine other affaires concerning the former treaties 

 and conclusions, they may, yea and of necessitie must 

 greatly avayle. Wherefore (our entirely beloved friend) 

 even as upon confidence of the premisses we have 

 thought good to grant unto the marchants and subjects 

 of our realme full authority to resort unto your 

 dominions, so we doe in like maner graunt unto your 

 marchants and subjects free licence and liberty with 

 their marchandises and goods securely to come into 

 our realmes and dominions, there to stay, and at their 

 pleasures thence to returne home. Moreover, if Arnold 

 Dassel, who last of all presented your foresayd letters 

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