ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1409. 



nobles at the time and place above mentioned, with 

 reasonable expences, wherein also the said parties stand 

 condemned, their lawfull taxation being reserved. 



Item it is covenanted and granted, that the heires of 

 Lord Henrie de Percy the yonger after they shall come 

 unto lawfull age, and shall have attained unto the pos- 

 sessions and goods of their inheritance, must be compelled 

 by the kings authoritie (justice going before) to make 

 satisfaction unto the great procurator of Marienburgh 

 with the summe of 838. nobles in lieu of certaine corne 

 and graine which the foresaid Lord Henrie, in the yeere 

 1403, bought and received of the said great procuratour, 

 for the use of the castle of Zutberwik. In testimonie 

 and confirmation of all the which premisses, the said 

 Tedericus, Lefardus, and John Crolow, of their certaine 

 knowledges have put their seales unto these present 

 letters indented, in the presence of the above-named 

 Richard Merlow, John Kington, and William Askam, 

 commissioners for the behalfe of England. Given at the 

 Citie of London in England the fourth day of December,, 

 in the yeere of our Lord 1409. 



II H°4~ Carta Henrici quarti Anno || quinto regni sui con- 

 P- l8 4~] cessa mercatoribus Anglias in partibus Prussia?, 



Dacia?, Norwegian, Swethias, & Germanias, de 

 gubernatore inter ipsos ibidem constituendo. 



Enricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae & Francias & 

 Dominus Hiberniae omnibus, ad quos praesentes 

 literae pervenerint, salutem. Sciatis quod cum, ut accepi- 

 mus, ob defectum boni & sani regiminis & gubernationis, 

 diversa damna, dissensiones, gravamina, & angustias inter 

 mercatores Regni nostri Angliae in partibus Pruciae, 

 Daciae, Norwegian, Hansae, & Swethiae commorantes 

 saepius ante haec tempora mota fuissent & perpetrata, ac 

 majora exinde, quod absit, futuris temporibus verisimiliter 

 evenire formidantur, nisi pro meliori gubernatione inter 

 eosdem mercatores mutuo habenda manus nostras ad- 

 jutrices apponamus: Nos damnis & periculis in hac parte 



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