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like the general liberality of mind and commercial wifdom of his coun- 

 trymen *. 



1322 — Among the various orders for colledling provifions for the 

 army fent againfl Scotland, we find one for nine thoufand quarters of 

 wheat and other provifions f , to be fent from Ireland. [Rot. pat. prim. 

 16 Edzv. II, m. 20.] This of itfelf, if it was really accomplifhed, was 

 no trifling exportation of grain from Ireland, confidering the flate the 

 country mufl have been in, after being the theatre of war between the 

 Englilh and the Scots. 



May 7'" — King Edward, after having again attempted to perfuade the 

 earl of Flanders, that it would be for his honour and advantage to pre- 

 vent his fubje6ls from trading with the Scots, and finding that the Flem- 

 ings were fo far from being perfuaded by his arguments, that they rather 

 aded as the allies of the Scots by taking the veflels, which were carry- 

 ing provifions to his army, now ordered the magifi:rates of Yarmouth 

 and the barons of the Cinque ports to have the fhipping of their diftrids 

 ready to ad againfl the Flemings upon the fliorteft notice. \Foedera, V. 

 iii,//). 947, 949, 951.] 



1323, April — Robert, the lleady earl of Flanders being dead, his 

 grandfon Louis was more pliant to the requifitions of King Edward, and 

 promifed to debar the Scots from trading in his territories, and to pro- 

 hibit his fubjecls from furnifliing any fupplies to them. The king, in 

 return, granted the Flemings all the freedom of trade they had former- 

 ly enjoyed in England, and moreover exempted them from being liable 

 for the debts of others, or for bypaft tranfgreflions againfl the charter 

 of the ftaple. {Ycxdera., V. iu, pp. 1006, 1007.] 



This year the fame earl eftablifhed the magiftracy and court-houfe of 

 ihe Francoxates at Bruges, which he declared to be the fixed emporium 

 of his territories. He alfo decreed, that no cloth fhould be manufad- 

 ured nor fold at Sluys ; and he prefcribed what kinds of merchandize 

 fliould be fold at Sluys, and what kinds at Damm, Honks, and Mona- 

 chorede. [Mcyeri Ann. Flandr.f. 125 b.] 



April 16"' — The people belonging to five Venetian gallies lying at 

 Southampton had lately got into a fquabble with the inhabitants of that 



* Some of his countrymen went to the oppofite Mem. hlfl. de Barcelona, V. i, Com. p. 47-] Sanuto 

 extreme, and fupphed tlic Saracens witli arms, and liimfelf informs us, that a more vigorous prohibi- 

 provifions, for which they were pimidrtd hy Ed- tion had been ordered immediately after the tx- 

 ward prince of England, when tlicy fell into his puliion of the Chriftians from ralelline. So it 

 hands in the year 1270, probably In confequcnce appears, tiial tlicre was nothing new in his pro- 

 of the bull itfued by Pope Gregory X, prohibit- pofal. 



iiig all communication with the infidels, and par- f ' Frunlcnli ac al' victual.' In the Latin of 



liculaily with the fultan of Egypt. In the year thofc agesyi-umc/i/wm generally fignifics wheat, and 



1274 James i, king of Aragon, at tlie dciirc of I'ifluaV may be other corns. In many parts of the 



the fame pope, prohibited the exportation of iron, country vi'iiial h Hill a genctrtl teiiu for uil kinds 



<rrms, fhip limber, corn and other provifiom, to of corn, 

 the Saracens. {^IValfingham, p. ^"Ji.—C'ipmniiyi 



