A.D. 



c. 1260. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Carta pro Mercatoribus Alemannias, qui habent 

 domum in London, quae Gildhalla Teutoni- 

 corum vulgariter nuncupatur Anno 44. 

 Henrici tertii, & Anno primo & 29. 

 Edwardi primi renovata & confirmata. 



D instantiam Serenissimi princlpis Rich- 

 ard! Romanorum Regis charissimi fra- 

 tris nostri concedimus mercatoribus 

 Alemanniae, illis videlicet qui habent 

 domum in Civitate nostra London, 

 quae Gildhalla Teutonicorum vulgariter 

 nuncupatur, quod eos universos manu- 

 tenebimus per totum Regnum nostrum in omnibus 

 iisdem libertatibus & liberis consuetudinibus, quibus 

 ipsi nostris & II progenitorum nostrorum temporibus 

 usi sunt & gavisi. Ipsosque extra hujusmodi liber- 

 tates & liberas consuetudines non trahemus, nee trahi 

 aliquatenus permittemus. In cujus rei testimonium has 

 literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. 



The same in English. 



A charter for the Marchants of Almaine, who 

 have an house at London commonly called 

 XTheStiliard. :[: the Guild hall of the Dutch, graunted in 



the 44. yeere of Henry the third, renued 

 and confirmed in the i. & 29. yeere of 

 Edward the first. 



II Nota anti- 

 quit a tern. 



AT the instant request of the most gracious Prince 

 Richard king of the Romanes our most deare 

 brother, wee doe graunt unto the Marchants of Alemain 

 (namely unto those that have an house in our citie of 

 London, commonly called the Guildhall of the Dutch 

 Merchants) that we will, throughout our whole Realme, 

 maintaine all and every of them, in all those liberties 

 and free customes, which both in our times, and in the 



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