A. D. 1323. 495 



town and the Ille of Wight, and much mifchief had been done to the 

 country, and feveral lives had been loft on both fides. The merchants 

 of Venice, dreading the revenge of the country, or the rigour of the 

 law, which, they knew, would take hold of any of them; as well as of 

 the individuals really guilty, abflained from trading to England till the 

 affair could be accommodated. For a fum of money they had already 

 obtained from John of the Ifle of Wight an engagement that neither 

 he nor any of his dependents fhould ever take vengeance, or demand 

 any further fatisfadlion, for the murders and robberies committed on 

 that occafion. The king alfo, unwilling to lofe the advantage of their 

 commerce, granted them an ample pardon, with afliirance of fecurity 

 in trading in his dominions, as long as they carried on fair trade, and 

 paid the due cufloms *. [Foedera, V. in, pp. 1008, loii.] 



May 30^'' A truce was concluded between England and Scotland for 



thirteen years, wherein the articles of the former one, prohibiting in- 

 tercourfe between the two nations, and refpeding the fhips of the Scots, 

 and their property in other fliips, forced upon the coafl of England by 

 ftrefs of weather f , were the fame as in the preceding truce, with the 

 additional condition, that no merchants belonging to any other country, 

 except countries at war with England or Scotland, fhould meet with any 

 obftrudion in trading to either kingdom. [Fcedera, V. iii,^. 1022.] 



June 4'*' — It is probable, that the vefTels of Majorca traded to Flan- 

 ders, as we find, that, in confequence of a complaint, made by the 

 king of that ifland, of his fubjeds being plundered upon the fea by the 

 Englifh \, King Edward promifed to give every kind of juftice and 

 favour to any merchants of Majorca, who ihould trade to England. 

 [Foedera, V. iix, p. 1028.] 



November 24'' — In an ordinance for the ftate of Ireland, all merch- 

 ants, natives or foreigners, are authorized to carry corn and other pro- 

 vifions and merchandize to England and Wales, unlefs they fliould be 

 taken by the juflice (or viceroy) by advice of the council in a cafe of 

 "neceffity, on paying the due and ufual cuftoms, and giving fecurity that 

 they fhould not go to Scotland or any other country at war with England. 

 [^Foedera, V. iv, p. 24.] 



1324, March 10'" — The king fummoned the maritime towns on the 

 fouth coafl to aflemble their largefl velfels at Portfmouth, fufficiently 

 manned and provided wich landing bridges and clays §, for carrying fol- 



* The pardon was ratified in parliament on tht; | This is the fame violence which the king of 



lo"" of March 1324 by the king, prelates, and Aragon alfo complained of, the two gallies taken 



nobles. [^Fadera, F. iv, fi. 39.] being the property of fubjefts of Majorca, and the 



f There is no reciprocal ftipulation for the pro- cargoes belonging to a fubjcft of Aragon, who 



tettion of Englifh veiTels thrown upon the coa'i of itated that he had put goods onboard them in 



■Scotland. It was apparently fo far ont of the Flanders. \_Fmdera, V. \\',pp. 15, 82, 83, 1 30.] 

 traA of Englilh trading vcffels, that no fuch acci- J ' Clayas,' a word not well underftood : pcr- 



dent was expeded ever to happen. haps hurdles {clayes in French) for majcing tem- 

 porary 



