444 ^' ^* ^^285. 



make good the damage, if they did not apprehend the robber. And 

 every man was required to have in his houfe arms and armour, fuitable 

 to his circumflances, to enable him to affifl in keeping the peace. [Stat. 

 Wi?it. and Stat. Lond. 1 3 Edw. /.] 



About this time a great conduit was made in the ilreet called Weft 

 Cheaping (now Cheapiide) which was fupplied with water brought from 

 Paddington in leaden pipes laid under ground *• [Stoiv's Survey of Lon- 

 don, p. 482.] 



Two Norwegian brothers, called Adalbrand and Thorvald, are faid to 

 have difcovered land lying weft from Iceland. [Torfai Hijl. Borweg. V. 

 iv, p. 374.] But Greenland, the country due weft from Iceland, had 

 been difcovered, and alfo colonized, feveral ages before. 



At this time the coafts of Denmark, Frifeland, and Germany, were 

 infefted by a moft famous pirate called Alf, a Norwegian nobleman, 

 who carried home his plunder to Norway, and was kindly received there. 

 The merchants of the Vandalic part of Germany fitted out a fleet of 

 about thirty large cogs, which cruifed for Alf in the Ore found feveral 

 weeks, during which he carried on his depredations in the Baltic fea. 

 So much of the old piratical fpirit ftill prevailed in Norway, that Eric, 

 the young king of that country, inftead of punifliing his fubjed: Alf as 

 the general enemy of mankind, promoted him to the rank of an earl, 

 and treated the German merchants as his own enemies ; and they ap- 

 pear to have really taken fome veflels belonging to his fubjeds. \Tor- 

 fcEi Hi/}. Norweg. V. iv, p. 374. — Fcedera, V. ii. p. 1088.] 



Perhaps this pirate was the caufe of the war between the king of 

 Norway and the German merchants about the year 1280, as related by 

 Krantzius, \HiJl. Norweg. L. vi, c. 2] who fays, that the merchants, of- 

 fended with the king for fome encroachments upon their atitient privi- 

 leges, blocked up his ports, and prevented the importation of any pro- 

 vifions ; that the Norwegians, ftrongly habituated to the corn brought 

 from the fouthern countries, obliged their king to make peace, who re- 

 quefted the king of Sweden to ad as umpire, and, in confequence of 

 his award, reftored the privileges of the merchants, and paid them a 

 large fum of money for damages ; whereupon the merchants immedi- 

 ately imported corn into Norway. During the war the dukes of Sax- 

 ony and Brunfwick and the emperor of Germany wrote to King Ed- 

 ward, reprefenting the unjuft and tyrannic condud of the king of Nor- 

 way in feizing the property of the merchants of Lubeck ' to an infinite 

 amount,' and requefting him not to permit the Norwegians, whole own 

 country could not fupply them with provifions, to carry any from his 

 dominions, {Rymer's Coll. mamifcr. V. ii, «'. 71-73] whence it may be 



* We arc not informed what materials tlie firft pipes for bringing water into London were made 

 of, (fee abevc, p. 389) and Slow hai quoted no author for his narrative of the conduit. 



