SECOND EDITION 1598 



compositions and restitutions which happened in the 

 time of king Richard the 2. and king Henry the 4. 

 between the said kings and their subjects on the one 

 partie ; and Conradus de Zolner, Conradus de Jungingen, 

 and Ulricus de Jungingen, three of the great masters ot 

 Prussia, and their subjects, with the common societie of 

 the Hans-townes on the other partie. In all which dis- 

 course you may note very many memorable things ; as 

 namely first the wise, discreet, and cautelous dealing of 

 the Ambassadors and Commissioners of both parts, then 

 the wealth of the foresaid nations, and their manifold 

 and most usuall kinds of wares uttered in those dayes, 

 as likewise the qualitie, burthen, and strength of their 

 shipping, the number of their Mariners, the maner of 

 their combates at sea, the number and names of the 

 English townes which traded that way, with the particular 

 places as well upon the coast of Norway, as every where 

 within the sound of Denmark which they frequented ; 

 together with the inveterate malice and craftie crueltie of 

 the Hanse. And because the name, office, and dignitie 

 of the masters generall, or great Masters of Prussia 

 would otherwise have bene utterly darke and unknowen 

 to the greater part of Readers, I have set downe immedi- 

 atly before the first Prussian ambassage, pagina 144 

 a briefe and orderly Catalogue of them all, contayning 

 the first originall and institution of themselves and of 

 their whole knightly order and brotherhood, with the 

 increase of revenues and wealth which befell them after- 

 ward in Italy and Germany and the great conquests 

 which they atchieved upon the infidels of Prussia, Samo- 

 gitia, Curland, Liefland, Lituania, &c. also their decay and 

 finall overthrow, partly by the revolt of divers Townes 

 and Castles under their jurisdiction, and partly by the 

 meanes of their next mightie neighbour the King of Poland. 

 After all these, out of 2. branches of 2. ancient 

 statutes, is partly shewed our trade and the successe 

 thereof with divers forren Nations in the time of K. 

 Henry the sixt. 



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