476 



A. D. 1310. 



1310, June 16'" — King Edward ordered the following ports to lend 

 fhips of war, fufficiently equipped and manned, to Dublin, in order to 

 tranfport the earl of Ulfter and his forces to Scotland. 



Shoreham, to fend 

 Portfmouth 

 Lymington and 7 



Eremouth j 

 Poole 

 Wareham 

 Weymouth 

 Melcomb 

 Lyme 

 Exmouth and 7 



Exeter j 



Teignmouth 

 Dartmouth 



Plymouth 

 Colchefler 

 Harwich 

 Ipfwich 

 Dunwich 

 Orford 

 Yarmouth 

 Little Yarmouth 

 Snyterley 

 Burnham and 7 

 Holkham j 

 Boflon 



I Grimfby - i 



I Ravenfere - 1 



1 Hull - _ 2 



2 Scarburgh - r 

 I Hertlepool - i 

 I Newcaftle upon 

 6 Tine 



I Newby - - i 



I Gloucefter and 7 



Briftol j ^ 



Bridgewater - i 

 I 



4 [Fa;dera, V. iii, p. 2 1 2.] 



} 



I Lynne 



There are no orders to London or the Cinque ports *. The great 

 number taxed upon Yarmouth affords a ftrong prelumption, that the 

 fifhery, the chief, or rather the only, bufinefs of that port, was then in 

 a very flourifliing condition. But of the ports, taxed at one vefTel each, 

 fome muft have differed greatly from others in commercial importance. 



1 31 1 — The king of France wrote to King Edward his fon-in-law, re- 

 queuing that he would remit to the French merchants, and efpecially 

 to thofe of Amiens, the new duty of three pennies in the pound of the 

 value of their goods. But Edward anfwered, that the duty had been 

 granted in his father's time in a full parliament, and at the delire of the 

 foreign merchants themfelves, in confideration of liberties and immuni- 

 ties, from which they had reaped great advantages ; and that he could 

 not remit it without the advice of parliament f . \Fadera, V. iii, p. 269.] 



There can be little reafon to doubt that the conftrudion and ufe of 

 the glalTes for aflifling weak or dim eyes, now fo generally known un- 

 der the name of fpedacles, were known to the great Roger Bacon. But 

 in thofe days the knowlege of improvements was llowly propagated, and 

 for want of printing, the great preferver as well as difl'eminator of know- 

 lege, was often entirely loft. We may therefor very well believe, that 

 the invention of fpedacles at Pifa, or Florence, or both, might be real 

 original difcoveries. Dominicus Maria Mannus of Florence, in an eflay 

 on fpe^acles, feems to prove, that they were invented by Salvino of that 



• It appears fiom a fecond mandate ifiiicd in a 

 f"3w weeks after, w'uerrin the kinj;; ordered all tlic 

 vtlfels to proceed immcdiatdy fc^r tlie coall of Ar- 

 gyle without cslling at Ireland, that llie Cinque 

 ports were alfo railed upon for their (hipping at 

 this time. The ftcond orders coiitaiii, bclidcs the 

 t'itvquc ports ami all thofe in the full ones, the 



port of Southampton. \Fadera, V. iii, pp. 22 j, 



265-1 



f The fame rcqueft was again made at the iii- 



ftance of the merchants of Amiens by Charles the 



Fair in the year 1323; and a finiilar anlvvcr was 



retnrr.cd. {Faikra., V. iii, />. 1014.] 



