A.D. 

 I 1 99. 



The ancient 

 customes of 

 Marchants. 



216. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



lished, and proclaimed in your bailiwicke, & firmely to 

 be observed, permitting them to goe & come, without 

 impediment, according to the due, right and ancient 

 customes used in your said BaiHwicke. Witnesse 

 Geofry Fitz-Peter Earle of Essex at Kinefard the 5. 

 day of April. 



The same forme of writing was sent to the sherife of 

 Sudsex, to the Maior and communaltie of the Citie of 

 Winchester, to the Baily of Southampton, the Baily 

 Lenne, the Baily of Kent, the sherife of Norfolke and 

 Suffolke, the sherife of Dorset and Sommerset, the 

 Barons of the Cinque-ports, the sherife of Southampton- 

 shire, the sherife of Hertford and Essex, the sherife 

 of Cornewal and Devon. 



Literal regis Henrici tertii ad Haquinum Regem 

 Norwegias de pacis foedere & intercursu mer- 

 candisandi || Anno i. Henrici 3. 



Enricus Dei gratia &:c. Haquino eadem 

 gratia Regi Norwegias salutem. Immensas 

 nobilitati vestras referimus gratiarum 

 actiones de his qu« per literas vestras & 

 prudentem virum Abbatem de Lisa, nobis 

 significastis, volentes & desiderantes foedus 

 pacis & dilectionis libenter nobiscum inire, 

 & nobiscum confoederari. Bene autem placet & placebit 

 nobis quod terrae nostrae communes sint, & Mercatores & 

 homines qui sunt de potestate vestra libere & sine 

 impedimento terram nostram adire possint, & homines & 

 Mercatores nostri similiter terram vestram. Dum tamen 

 literas vestras patentes super hoc nobis destinetis, & nos 

 vobis nostras transmittemus. Interim autem bene 

 volumus & concedimus, quod Mercatores tam de terra 

 vestra quam nostra eant, veniant, & recedant per terras 

 nostras. Et si quid vestrae sederit voluntati, quod facere 

 valeamus, id secure nobis significetis. Detinuimus autem 

 adhuc Abbatem praedictum, ut de navi vestra & rebus in 



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