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insuper omnia justa & rationabilia statuta, ordinationes & 

 consuetudines per dictos gubernatores sic eligendos in 

 forma prasdicta facienda & stabilienda, nee non omnes 



II Nota. justas & rationabiles ordinationes per || nuper guber- 

 natores praedictorum mercatorum Anglicorum de com- 

 muni assensu eorundem mercatorum pro hujusmodi 

 gubernatione sua in partibus praedictis juxta privilegia & 

 authoritates sibi per magistrum Prucias seu alios dominos 

 partium praedictarum concessa, factas & stabilitas, seu per 

 prasdictos gubernatores nunc ut praemittitur eligendos 

 juxta privilegia prasdicta, seu alia privilegia eisdem mer- 

 catoribus Anglicis per prasdictos magistrum & dominos in 

 posterum concedenda, facienda & stabilienda, rata, flrma 

 & accepta haberi, & pro ratis, flrmis, & acceptis ibidem 

 firmiter & inviolabiliter observari. Damus autem uni- 

 versis & singulis mercatoribus Anglicis praedictis tenore 

 praesentium firmiter in mandatis, quod eisdem guber- 

 natoribus sic eligendis & eorum loca tenentibus in prae- 

 missis omnibus & singulis ac aliis gubernationem & 

 regimen in hac parte qualitercunque concernentibus 

 intendentes sint, consulentes, obedientes & auxiliantes, 

 prout decet. Data in palatio nostro Westmonasterii sub 

 magni sigilli nostri testimonio sexto die Junii Anno regni 

 nostri quinto. 



[I. 185.] A Charter of King Henry the fourth graunted in 

 the fift yeere of his reigne to the English 

 Marchants resident in the partes of Prussia, 

 Denmarke, Norway, Sweden and Germanie 

 for the chusing of Governours among them- 

 selves. 



HEnry by the grace of God king of England and of 

 France, and Lord of Ireland: to all to whom these 

 present letters shall come, sendeth greeting. Know ye, 

 that whereas, according as we are informed, through want 

 of good and discreete rule and governement, sundry 

 damages, strifes, oppressions, and wrongs oftentimes here- 



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