428 A, D. 1274. 



in the city on. this occafion, to fay nothing of the pomp of the corona- 

 tion feaft. [T. Wikes,p. ioi,ed. GaleJ] 



1275, April 25"' — A parhament was held at Weftminfter, wherein 



The laws of Henry I and Henry II, for preferving the property of 

 ■u'recked veflels and merchandize for the lawful owners, were renewed 

 \^Acis, 3 Edzv. I, c. 4.] 



It was provided, that no foreign perfon *, being of this realm, fhould 

 be diftrained in any city, town, fair, or market, for any debt, for wliich 

 he was neither principal debtor nor fecurity. [c. 23,] 



Thofe who took up provifions or other things for the ufe of the king, 

 or for the garrifon ofacaflle, and did not pay for them, were made 

 anfwerable in their lands, or other property, failing which, they were to 

 be puniflied by imprifonment. Thofe who received bribes for paying 

 the king's debts were obliged to refund doubly, and were further to be 

 punifhed at the king's pleafure. [c. 32.] 



We find a new cuftom upon wool granted (' concefTa') to the king at 

 this time, which was probably enadled by the fame parliament, though 

 it does not appear among their ads. [Rot. pat. 3 Ediv. I, m. i.] 



A mandate was iflued by the king, obliging all foreign merchants to 

 fell their goods within forty days after their arrival. [Hakluyt, V. i,p. 133.] 

 This order put the foreign fellers entirely in the mercy of the buyers, 

 unlefs when the demand happened to be fo great, as to prevent the later 

 from combining to abftain from purchafing, till the term allowed to the 

 importers was almoft expired. Indeed, the frequent inconfillent orders 

 for the encouragement and difcouragcment of foreign merchants trad- 

 ing to England mud have been exceffively perplexing, and have very 

 much cramped the trade, which was expofed to fuch caprices and un- 

 certainties. 



A Spanifh fheep, imported from France into Northumberland, infed- 

 ed all the flocks in England with a difeafe hitherto unufual (if not un- 

 known) in England, which raged eight-and-twenty years, and totally 

 deftroycd the flocks in many parts of the country f . [JValJlngham, Hiji. 

 p. ^6.] 



1276 — Florence earl of Holland, being defirous that his fubjeds fliould 

 have a fliare of the beneficial trade of England, which their neigh- 

 bours the Flemings had almoil engrofled, made an offer to King Edward 

 of fafe condudf and perfed liberty for the Engliflr in trading in Holland 

 for the fpace of two years, provided that equal liberty were granted in 

 England to his fubjeds. [Fadera, V. n,p. 62.] 



* By the tcrm/iyr«frt per/on vvc mud cvidtntly the year 1277, and fays, tliat it is ciireJ by nn 



undcrlland one not belonging to tlie corporation ointment made of qiiick-filvcr and bog's lard, 



of the city or town. Stow [yfi:nii/fs, p. 305, «/. 1600] calls the difeafe 



f The annalift of Wavciley dates the introduc- m'lncin and rot, 

 lion of this difeafe, which he calls the claufiL, in 



