164 CASE OF THE POST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



Gascoigne ; for look upon the statute of 27 E. III. 

 cap. 5. there it is said, that there shall be no fore 

 stalling of wines. But by whom ? Only by English 

 merchants ; not a word of the subjects of Gascoigne, 

 and yet no doubt they might be offenders in the 

 same kind. 



So in the sixth chapter it is said, that all 

 merchants Gascoignes may safely bring wines into 

 what part it shall please them : here now are the 

 persons of Gascoignes ; but then the place whither 1 

 Into the realm of England. And in the seventh chap 

 ter, that erects the ports of Bourdeaux and Bayonne 

 for the staple towns of wine ; the statute ordains, 

 &quot; that if any,&quot; but who ? &quot; English merchant, or his 

 &quot; servants, shall buy or bargain otherwhere, his body 

 &quot; shall be arrested by the steward of Gascoigne, or 

 &quot; the constable of Bourdeaux :&quot; true, for the officers 

 of England could not catch him in Gascoigne ; but 

 \vhat shall become of him, shall he be proceeded with 

 within Gascoigne ? No, but he shall be sent over 

 into England into the Tower of London. 

 . And this doth notably disclose the reason of that 

 custom which some have sought to wrest the other 

 way : that custom, I say, whereof a form doth yet 

 remain, that in every parliament the king doth ap 

 point certain committees in the upper house to receive 

 the petitions of Normandy, Guienne, and the rest; 

 which as by the former statute doth appear, could 

 not be for the ordering of the governments there, 

 but for the liberties and good usage of the subjects 



