4i6 A. D. 1265. 



of Barcelona from the payments exacled by the abbat of Samt Felix 

 npon the arrival and departure of veflels, and alio from fimilar pay- 

 ments hitherto made to himfelf. At the fame time, in his zeal for the 

 profperity of Barcelona, but in dire61: oppofuion to the prudent and li- 

 beral policy of his predeceflor, Count Raymundo Berenguer I, he ex- 

 pelled all the merchants of Lombardy, Florence, Sienna, and Luca, re- 

 fiding in that city. King James afterwards ordered, that no foreigner 

 fhould keep a table (or bank) of exchange in Barcelona, nor fhip any 

 goods, not being his own property, onboard any foreign vellel. [Cap- 

 many, Mem. hijl. de Barcelona, V. ii, Col. dipt pp. 31, 34, and 12-36.] 

 The woollen manufa6lures of Catalonia, which appear to have been in 

 an eftabliihed ftate before the year 1 243, continued thenceforth to flouriffi 

 in Barcelona and many other towns of the province, \^Capmany, V. i, 

 607//. p. 241] till the tmion of the crowns of Caftile and Aragon deprefP 

 ed the later kingdom, and the expulfion of the Jews and Moors, toge- 

 gether with the difcovery of the mines of America, almoft completed 

 the deftrudion of induftry in Spain. 



1266 — Alexander II, king of Scotland, had formerly made a propofal 

 to Hacon, king of Norway, for purchafing his fupremacy over the ma- 

 ritime kingdom of Mann and the Weftern iflands, which appear evi- 

 dently intended by Nature to be an appendage of Scotland rather than 

 of the diftant kingdom of Norway. But Hacon anfwered, that he was 

 in no want of money, and he did not chufe to difmember his kingdom. 

 In confequence of the failure of the negotiation, two hoftile expeditions 

 were undertaken ; one by Alexander in the year 1249, and the other by 

 Hacon in 1263; and both princes died by ficknefs while on their expe- 

 ditions, without any thing efFedual being done on either fide. An 

 amicable treaty was this fummer concluded at Perth between their fons, 

 by which Magnus IV, king of Norway, ceded for ever to Alexander III, 

 king of Scotland, the feudal fovereignty of Mann and the Weilern 

 iflands for the fum of 4,000 marks, together with an annual payment of 

 100 marks, of good and lawful fterling money according to the manner 

 and ufage of Rome, France, England, and Scotland * : an exceeding 

 good bargain on both fides, inafmuch as a voluntary ceflion is more ho- 

 nourable than a compulfive deprivation, and a fair purchafe is more ho- 

 nourable than the rapine of conqueft. The treaty alfo provides for the 

 fecurity and protedion of the perfons, veflels, and cargoes, of the fub- 

 jecls of either king, who might be wrecked on the coafts of the other. 

 \See the or'iglnaL treaty, ap. For dun, p. 1355, cd. Ilearne T'orftei Orcades, 



* If \\\e fn'.mcrs of llic tve?ty iiiulcrftooj, that Euglilli or Scottifli poiiiul ; for in that ytar 



'he i.ioiicy of Roii;f, France, England, and Scot- Henry III engaged to j)ay £2.0.0 of good and 



Irird was of tlic fame value, they were very ill in- lawful ilcrling money as an eijnivalent for £dcu 



iormi'd. Kefore the year 1235 liie I'rcnch pr)\ind 'I'ouinois, or French money, to the malUr of the 



l,ad fii:k to one .'"ourtli part of the value of the Temple. l^FrJcia, V, \, p. 342.] 



