A. D. 1236. 389 



Ji'landers demanded redrefs from King Henry, who thereupon promifed 

 to pay £^04. fterling for the wine, and jCioy : 10 : o money of Tours 

 for the other goods. He at the flime time promifed redrefs to others 

 who were wronged in his dominions, and expreffed his dcfire that the 

 merchants of Flanders and of England fliould mutually enjoy fecurity 

 in both countries. [Foedfra, V. i, pp. 316, 2)^S-] 



With all this attention profefled to the interefl of merchants, Henry, 

 while he envied their opulence, did not fcruple openly to exprefs his 

 contempt of the riijlics of London, who prefumed to call themfelves 

 barons *. \M. Paris, p. 749.] And even the great legiflative body of 

 the nation held burgelTes of every defcription, and confequently merch- 

 ants, in fo low a degree of eftimation, that it was enaded in the parlia- 

 ment held at Merton, that a fuperior lord, who fliould difparage his 

 ward, being under fourteen years of age, by a marriage with a villein 

 (peafant) or a burgefs, fliould forfeit the wardfhip of the lands. [Sta- 

 tiites of Merton, f. 6.] 



Hitherto London had been ferved with water from the feveral rivu- 

 lets flowing through it (which in the prefent day arc all hid under the 

 pavement), and from wells. But thefe fupplies being now found inade- 

 quate to the wants of the inhabitants, the magiftrates purchafed from 

 Gilbert Sanford, proprietor of Tyburn, the fountains of that burn (or 

 brook), with liberty to convey the water from the ciftern, into which 

 they had led it, through his lands in pipes, and occafionally to break up 

 the ground for neceflary repairs. \Ftxdera, V. xi, p. 30.] 



The foreign merchants of Amiens, Nele, and Corbie, contributed 

 £,\oo to the expenfe of this 'improvement. About the fame time they 

 agreed with the mayor, the principal citizens alfo giving their confent, 

 to pay fifty marks annually to the mayor for the liberty of landing and 

 ftoring the woad imported by them, inftead of being obliged to fell it 

 onboard their veiTels, as they had hitherto done. The merchants of 

 Normandy alfo paid a fine to the city for the fame indulgence. {Stow's 



Survey of London, p. 130 Fcedera, V. v, p. 105.] Thefe payments for 



an accommodation in the fale of woad fhow that the quantity imported 

 was coniiderable, and confequently, that the manufadures, in which it 

 was ufed, mufl have alfo been confiderable. It is proper, however, to 

 obferve, that woad was more ufed by the dyers, before indigo became 

 common, than it is now, and alfo, that it is fuperior to indigo for dur- 

 ability of colour. 



1238 — The Weftern world was threatened with total extermination 

 by the Tatars (or Tartars f ), a new, and to the Europeans an unheard- 



* The reaJer will recoUcft, that the citizens of Abulgliazi, a defcendent of Zingis, and other Orx- 

 Loiidon, or at leaft the pit-emiucnl ones, had the ental authois, is ufed by Yvo Narbonenlli in his 

 appellation of barons. See above, p. 329. letter to the biiliop of Bourdeaijx in the year 1245, 



f Tatar, the true name, as it is written by by PduJ Oderboin, a wnter cniUeTiporary witli 



the 



