A. D. 1300. 465 



communicated its name to the adjacent wharf, and alfo to the ward 

 wherein it is fituated *. [Stow^s Survey, p. 438.] 



Edmund carl of Cornwall (who died this year) gave the people con- 

 cerned in working the tin mines of Cornwall a diploma, containing a 

 fpecification of their liberties, and the ftipulated duty to be paid for the 

 tin to him as fuperior lord of the country, together with a code of laws 

 for their regulation, which are known by the name Qi\h& Stannary laws. 

 {Camdeni Britan. p. 1 34. ] 



A ftatute was enadted, which ordained, that all wares made of gold 

 and filver, Ihould be of good and true allay ; gold of the ftandard of 

 Paris, and filver of the fterling allay f , or of better, if defired by the 

 employer. It alfo directed, that filver work fhould be marked with a 

 leopard's head hy the wardens of the craft if. [Statui. 28 Ediv. I, c. 20.] 



While King Edward was carrying on his warlike operations in the 

 fouth part of Scotland, he received from Ireland a confiderable number 

 of cargoes of wheat, oats, malt, and ale, which were mollly brought by 

 the merchants of Ireland, and in Irifh veffels. This year the mayor and 

 community of Drogheda made the king a prefent of eighty tuns of wine, 

 and chartered a vefTel, belonging to their own port, to deliver it to him 

 at Kirkcudbright. \Liber garderobce Edw. 1, pp. 120, et fecjq.'] I do not 

 find that Ireland fupplied the Englifh army with any animal food, which 

 in the prefent age is a principal branch of the trade of that country. 



At the fame time Galloway, being then moftly under the dominion 

 of Edward, fupplied him with horfes, apparently of the breed known 

 by the name of the country, for which it has long been famous. [Liber 

 garderobce, paffim.'\ 



The number of vefTels arriving in the year ending on the 20''> of No- 

 vember 1299, in London, and the other ports of England, except the 

 Cinque ports which were exempted from the prife, and bringing car- 

 goes of wine confifling of above nineteen tuns, from which, by an an- 

 tient law or cuftom, the king had a right to take two tuns at the fixed 

 price of twenty fhillings, was 73 ; and the number in the year ending 

 on the 20'i, of November 1300 was yi ; the prife wines (which appear 

 by the accounts to have been but a fmall part of thofe confumed in the 

 king's houfehold) being 146 tuns in the former, and 142 in the later, 

 of thefe years §. [Liber garderobce, p, ■^S^. 'I It is, however, very pro- 



* The ward was fo called at Icaft as early as J By an act of the year 1299, ingots cf filver 



the year 1304. \_Madox, c. 17, § 5, note />.] were to be marked by the king's eflayers, before 



f The appointment of the filver money of the they could be paid away in place of money. In 



kingdom to be the ilandard for filver vi'ork, and thofe days leopards, not lions, were the armorial 



the ftandard of a foreign country to be followed enfigns of England. 



in gold work, together witli the filence concern- § In the 47"" and 48'" yesrs of Henry III the 



ing gold money, ftrengthen the conjefture in p. prife wines fcem to have been only 235 tims dur- 



408, that a continued coinage of gold had not ing both years. \_MaJox's Hijl. if the excheq. c. 



been kept up after the y«ar 1257. 18, § 2.] 



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