A.D. 



c. 1027. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



honourably interteined me, and welcomed mee with rich 

 and magnificent gifts : but especially the Emperour 

 bestowed divers costly presents and rewards upon mee, 

 both in vessels of golde and silver, and also in cloakes 

 and garments of great value. Wherefore I conferred 

 with the Emperour himselfe and the Pope, and with 

 the other Princes who were there present, concerning the 

 necessities of all my subjects both Englishmen and 

 Danes ; that a more favourable law & secure peace in 

 their way to Rome might bee graunted unto them, and 

 that they might not bee hindered by so many stops 

 & impediments in their journey, and wearied by reason 

 of injust exactions. And the Emperour condescended 

 unto my request, and King Rodulphus also, who hath 

 greatest authoritie over the foresaid stops and streights, 

 and all the other princes confirmed by their Edicts, 

 that my subjects, as well Marchants, as others who 

 travailed for devotions sake, should without all hinder- 

 ance and restraint of the foresaid stops and customers, 

 goe unto Rome in peace, and returne from thence in 

 safetie. 



Gullel. 

 Malmesb. de 

 gestis pont. 

 Anglorum lib. 

 2. 



The flourishing state of Marchandise in the Citie 

 of London in the dayes of Willielmus Mal- 

 mesburiensis, which died in the yeere 1142. 

 in the reigne of K. Stephen. 



Aud longe a Rofa quasi viginti quinque milliariis 

 est Londonia Civitas nobilis, opima civium 



^ divitiis, constipata negociatorum ex omni terra. 



& maxime ex Germania venientium, commerciis. Unde 

 fit ut cum ubique in Anglia caritas victualium pro sterili 

 proventu messium sit, ibi necessaria distrahantur & eman- 

 tur minore, quam alibi, vel vendentium compendio, 

 vel ementium dispendio. Peregrinas invehit merces 

 Civitatis finibus Tamesis fluvius famosus, qui citra urbem 

 ad 80. milliaria fonticulo fusus, ultra plus 70. nomen 

 profert. 



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