A. D. 1266. 417 



L. ii.] The natural advantages for fiflieries and navigation pofleflcd by 

 thefe iflands render them capable of being made one of the mofl valu- 

 able appendages of the Britifli empire. 



A regular cuftom duty was now charged on the exportation of wool, 

 as appears by the flatute of the exchequer, which direded that the col- 

 ledlors of the cuftoms of wool fliould fettle twice in the year, and ren- 

 der an account of the quantity of wool loaded onboard each veflel. 

 [Statutes at large, V. i, p. 26, ed. 1786.] 



1267, January 5'" — The merchants of Lubeck, having no longer the 

 patronage of their emperor Richard, who had returned from Germany 

 to England, obtained a new charter from King Henry by the interefl of 

 Albert duke of Brunfwick, who had jufl married a niece of the queen 

 of England. The king therein grants to them and their property an 

 exemption from arreft on account of any debt, for which they are not 

 fecurity or principal debtors, unlefs the debtors are of their community, 

 or unlefs the burgefles of Lubeck lliall withhold juflice from Englifli 

 fubjeds aggrieved in that city ; that they fliall not forfeit their property 

 for the delinquency of their fervants ; that no prifes, beyond thofe eftab- 

 lilhed by antient cuftom, fliall be taken from them without being paid 

 for ; and they fhall have their hanfe for payment of five 'fhillings, in the 

 lame manner that the merchants of Cologne have had their hanfe *. 

 [Fadera, V. i, p. 839.] 



1 268 — Glafgow was now fomewhat advanced in polity, having a court— 

 houfe and a common feal. It was governed by three provofts (appar- 

 ently co-ordinate, and alfo by bailies. [Chart, in Gibfoti's Hiji. of Glaf- 

 gow, p. 303.]_ 



The following account given in to the exchequer by Walter Hervy 

 and William of Durham, cuftodes of the city of London, gives a view 

 of the names and amounts of the dues collefted in the city from the eve. 

 of Eafter to Michaelmas 1268, viz. 



T>iyexs.tronages\, viixh {ovae. {msWJirandages - £gy 13 11^ 



Ciifloms of all kinds of merchandize coming from foreign 



* The Getmaii authors differ widely in their ' (mercatores) qui Hanfe, id eft Socii, vocan- 



explanations of the meaning of the word Hanfe, ' tur.' 



which the aflbciation of that name has rendered fo f Tronage, money paid for weighing at the 



famous. Perhaps, without going any farther, or trom, or pubh'o beam. 



diving at all into the abyfs of etymology, we may Strandage feems payment for the hberty of lay- 



liave a pretty good idea of it by comparing this ing goods on the ftrand.fimilar to modern wharfage, 

 charter with thofe of fome of the towns of Eng- Scavage, paid for liberty to exhibit or ihow 



land, wherein the king grants the burgefles a lianfi, (fchaw) the goods at market, 

 which feeais to fignify a right of afting as a cor- P'f'^g'i for weighing, 

 porate body, with, probably, a power of making Stallage, rent paid for the ufe of a ftall. 

 regulations, or bye laws, for their own internal Socage, (a word of difputed meaning) feems here 



government. See Brady on hurghs, append, p. 10. to fignify payment for certain privileges enjoyed by. 



' — Meyer, the annalift of Flanders, [_/". 296 a] ex- the company of butchers. See the Glojfary tc 



plains Hanfe as meawng aflbci^tes ; — * Teutonic! Tit/y/den't Script, decern, vo. Socet. 



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