547*4 A. D. 1306. 



foreign merchants were called before the king's council, who inquired 

 how many merchants of each foreign company were in England, and 

 ordered them to give in an account of all the money and goods they 

 poflefled, and to give fecurity that none of them fhould leave the king- 

 dom, or export any thing, without the king's fpecial licence. Next day, 

 not being able to find iecurity, they were all committed to the Tower, 

 from which they were afterwards liberated on becoming fureties for 

 each other *. [Madox's Hjjl. c. 22, § 7.] 



1307, February 4''' — A fum of money having been colleded in Eng- 

 land for the pope, the king ordered that it fhould be given to merch- 

 ants within the kingdom for bills of exchange to be remitted to the 

 pope (' per viam cambii dido domino fummo pontifici dellinare'), be- 

 caufe he v/ould allow no coined money nor bullion to be carried out of 

 the kingdom on any account. \Fadera, V. ii, p. 1042.] Did he not 

 know, that fuch a tranfadion mufl either carry out n),oney, or prevent 

 it from coming in, which is nearly the fame thing? 



The ufe of coal (called fea-coal, as being brought by fea) for fuel was 

 prohibited in London and Southwark f . {Slaw's Survey of London, p. 



925O 



The fociety of the New temple in London had ereded fome mills 



upon the Thames, near Caftle Baynard, with a quay befide them, in 



virtue of a grant from King John, and they feem alfo to have drawn off 



the Water of Fleet from its channel. It appeared by an inqueft, that 



- thofe eredions had deftroyed the navigation of the Fleet, upon which 



fmall boats (' batelli'), loaded with merchandize, ufed to go up as far as 



Holburn bridge :|: ; and the Templars were oi-dered to reftore the brook 



to its natural channel. Stow fays, that the mills were removed, and the 



channel cleaned out ; but the antient breadth and depth never wei'c 



recovered, and there were mills upon it again in his time. \Rot. pat. 



35 'E.dw. I i I Edzu. I J, amb. a tergo. — Ryley, Plac. pari. p. 340. — Sto-w's 



Ann. p. 326 ; Survey, pp. 687, 688.] 



1308, March 15''' — Edward II, having married a daughter of the king 

 of France, granted permiilion to the merchants of that kingdom to 



• This lUibenil and impolitic treatment of fo- fmoke of wliicb was long fuppofed pernicious: 



reigncrs was uot put ail f nd to by law till the yi-ar {i^^e Lvilyn's Fiimifiigium, piilililhcd in the year 



I35;i, and not by praflite till long Kfterwaids. 1661] for the king fiirely did not propofe to hln- 



-(• In June 1307 the king fent an order to the der tlie citizens from drcfTing their vidnals ; and 



iiiavor and fiiirrefs of London to proclaim that no tliat this prohibiiion i.s the fame that is noticed by 



pcrfon flionld prefumc to light fires (' rogus illos Stow. — But qiicre, if ro^os be written inftead of 



• prsfumat aecendere') in London, or near the focos, and one of the innumerable blunders of Ry- 



Tower, beeaufe the queen was going to refide in mer's amanncnfcs, which diigrace that great and 



it, and fuch fires were apt to corrupt and infect valuable thefaurus of national records ? 



the air. [Fttilcra, V. ii, />. 1057.] The word X The name of Batel-bridge feems to infer, that 



fo^us, which figiiifies a fimeralfire, is evidently boats have at fome time proceeded vcven as high as 



niifapplied, and the meaning of tiie order is ren- that place, which is more than a rtiik above Hol- 



dcrcd obfcure by it. It is jirobablc that the pro- burn biidge. 

 hibition was dircdtd only agalnft fires of coal, tlu' 



