318 A. D. 1 1 20. 



mediately kindled a war between the allies, in which the Genoefe, with 

 .a fleet of eighty gallies and four great fhips carrying warlike engines, 

 befieged the harbour of the Pifans, and obliged them to fubmit to their 

 pleafure refpeding Corfica (September 14'''). The peace was almoft 

 immediately broken, and a fanguinary war, fometimes interrupted by 

 infincere pacifications or truces, continued to diftrefs the two neigh- 

 bouring and rival republics for almoft two centuries. [^Stell^ Ann. Gen. 

 and Chron. Pifan. ap. Muratori Script. V. vi.] 



1 1 13 — A cathedral church was founded near the north bank of the 

 River Clyde by David, earl or prince of Cumberland, and afterwards 

 king of Scotland *. The foundation of this church is entitled to no- 

 tice in commercial hiftory, becaufe it gave birth to the city of Glafgow, 

 which, after flumbering through feveral dull centuries of monkifli fioth 

 as a bilhop's burgh, has in later times ftione out as the center o!" the 

 moft vigorous commerce and the moft extenfive manufactures in Scot- 

 land. 



1 120 — The pearls found in feveral of the rivers of Scotland were at 

 this time in great requeft. King Alexander 1'^ is faid to have exceeded 

 all men in that fpecies of riches ; and his peai"ls, on account of their 

 large fize and fuperior brightnefs, were celtbrated and coveted in diftant 

 countries. [Nicolai EpiJI. in Anglia facra^ V. ii, />• 236.] 



1 1 21 — Scotland mull have had confiderable intercourfe with foreign- 

 ers, and alfo poffefled fome degree of opulence, when even the king of 

 fo remote a country could enjoy the foreign luxuries of an Arabian 

 horfe, velvet furniture, and Turkifli armour. All thefe articles, toge- 

 ther with other valuable trinkets, and a large eftate in land, were ))ie- 

 fented by King Alexander to the church of St. Andrews. {Regijhr of 



St. Andrews, a venerable contemporary record. Wyntowns Chronicle, V. i, 



p. 28r..] 



Henry king of England made a navigable canal of feven miles in 

 length from the Trent at Torkfey to the Witham at Lincoln, into which 

 he introduced the water of the Trent f . \iiim. Dun. col. 243.] 



1 1 26, September (f" The popes were very eager to fupprefs the 



practice of lending money at an equitable rate of intereft, which, like 

 all other branches of trade, muft naturally find its proper price in a fair 

 and open competiiion, in order to engrofs to their own fecret agents 

 and creatures a moft opprcffive trade of lending money at exorbitant in- 

 tereft. In a council of the clergy of England, held at Weftminfter un- 



* The church mud liave been founded in the cffltr, p. 25] fuppofcs, that the Trent on'oiiially 



year 11 13, if not carh'cr; for Jtihn birtiop of Gl.if- ran call to the fea (as it aftually appears in Rich- 



gow appears in the foundation charter of the abbay ard's very curious map of Roman Britain) and 



of Selkirk, which in tliat year was (locked with that it was carried nortliward into the Huniber by 



monks of Tyron. [^Dalrymple's Colled, p. 404. — Caraufnis for the benefit of inhiiid navigation. If 



Sim. Dun. col. 236.] Stuktly is right, Henry's work was a rclloration 



f Y)<j&.ov 5i\iki:\y [^ylccounf of Richard of C'ircn- of tlic river to a part of its antient channel. 



