4i8 A. D. 1268. 



parts liable to pay the duty called fcava^e, together with 

 the /»^^^<fj- during the half-year - - ^^75 6 10 



Meafiiring dues for corn arriving at the port of Billingfgate, 



and the water-cujlom there - - - 5187-^ 



Cujloms offijh brought to London-bridge ftreet, and fome 



other cuftoms there - - - 702^ 



Iflue of the field and bars of Sraithfield - - 4. 7 6 



Toll taken at the gates of the city, and cujloms on the 



Water of Thames towards the weft - - 8 13 2|- 



Stallages, cujloms of butchers and others exercifing divers 

 trades (' mcrcandifas') in the market of Weft-Chep, [mail 

 tolls and ifTues of the fame market, the ifTues of the 

 inarkets of Garfchirche (Grafs church or Grace church) 

 and Wollechirchehawe, with a certain annual yofrt^^ of 

 the butchers of the city - - - 42 o 5 



Iffues of Queen-hithe, being in the king's hands - 17 11 2 



Fotjeits of fundry foreigners for buying and felling in the 



city contrary to the ftatutes and cuftoms thereof 10 1 1 o 



Fleas 2CcA per quijites'va. x}i\t cxvj - - 86 5 9^- 



From the waidarii (dealers in woad) of Amiens, Corbye 



and Neele (cities of France) fince Michaelmafs - 1 1 6 8 



The whole amounting to - - £,2>^^ ^5 4t 



{Madox's HJl. of the excheg. c. 1 8, § 4.] 



Theodoric earl of Landfberg granted perfecT: freedom to the merchants 

 of all nations, even thofe whofe fovereigns might be at enmity with 

 him, to trade fecurely in the city of Leipfick. The fucceeding lords 

 of that city, with the fanction of the emperors, chartered the fairs, 

 which have continued to the prefent day to attradl the traders of every 

 nation in Europe. {^Peyferi Lipjta, p. 213 et feqq.'\ 



1 269, Auguft 1 6"" — ^There feem to have been fome mutual complaints 

 of injuries done to the fubjeds of England and Norway, Magnus Lag- 

 better (Reformer of the law) king of Norway, being a good man and a 

 lover of peace, had fent two ambalTadors to England, in order to adjuft 

 differences and ftrengthen the friendfhip entered into by his father Ha- 

 con with King Henry : and it was now agreed, that there fliould be 

 mutual liberty of trading to each country, and alfo that every proper 

 afhftance fhould be given to thofe who fhould have the misfortune to 

 l)c wrecked on either coaft, provided they did not abandon their veflels. 

 {Fader a, F. i, />. 857.] 



A letter, written by Peter Adfiger in the year 1269, contains a fcien- 

 tific account of the attraction, repulfion, and polarity, of the magnet, 

 the art of communicating thofe properties to iron, the variation of the 



