496 A. D. 1324. 



diers and horfes at his expenfe over to his duchy of Aquitaine. The 

 following are the quotas ordered from each port. 



Southampton 6 veflels Seaford i Boldre - i 



Sandwich 4 Shoreham 2 Yarmouth in Wight 2 



Winchelfea 6 Weymouth 10 Pooleanditsmem- 1 



Rye 2 Portfmouth i bers j ^ 



Faverfham i Hamelhok i [Fadera, V. iv, p. 40.] 



July 22'^ — Afterwards, underftanding that warlike fhips were getting 

 ready in all the ports of Normandy, he ifTued orders to all the ports of 

 England to equip all their veflels to act as fhips of war again ft the 

 French. He at the fame time defired that they would lay afide all ani- 

 mofities againft their fellow fubjeds of England or of his city of 

 Bayonne, and that they would moleft no vefl^l belonging to Flanders 

 or any other country not fubje<S to the king of France *. [Fa'dera, V. 

 iv, p. 73.] 



This year the king refumed the prerogative of feizing wrecks for his 

 ov^oi ufe f , which had been relinquilhed by Henry I and feveral other 

 kings, and alfo claimed all the whales and great fturgeons taken in the 

 fea, except in certain privileged places. \^Ad 17 Edw. II, c. 11.] 



1325, January 5* — King Edward, being very defirous to obtain the 

 friendftiip of the king of Caftile (or Spain) to fupport him in the war 

 with which he was threatened by France, granted to all the nobles, 

 merchants, mafters of Ihips, mariners, and other fubjeds of that king, 

 permiflion to trade freely in his Britifh and French dominions, they 

 paying cuftoms and other ufual charges, and being anfvverable for all 

 contrads and tranfgreflions. And in order further to gratify the Spanifh 

 king, he promifed that his fubjeds fhould not be liable to arreft for any 

 matters formerly in difpute. {Fadera, V. iv, p. 118.] 



February 26'" — The king renewed the grant of freedom of trade to 

 the Venetians, and added the now-ufual exemption from arreft for the 

 debts and crimes of others. But he alfo added a condition, that they 

 fhould have no communication whatever with his enemies or opponents. 

 [Fadera, V. iv, p. 138.] 



May 7'*' — A vefTel having failed to Portugal with goods in order to 

 take in return a cargo of corn and other provifions to carry to Aqui- 

 taine, King Edward took fo much concern in the fuccefs of the voyage, 



porary ftalls for the horfcs ; perhaps cleats (crofs * Walfingham \_p. 507] fays, that the navy of 



liars) nailed upon the bridges to prevent tiie horfcs England this year took a tiimdrcd vcffcls belong- 



from flipping.— -In Fatlera, V. v,p. 6, wc find the ing to the one province of Normandy. But he 



king orders the fhirrcfs to provide timber and brufli often exaggerates. 



(' bufcam') for conltruftinjj clays, bridges, boards, f An article in the truce with Scotland in the 



racks, &c. for tranfporting horfcs; and in/>. 814, year 1319 gives room to believe, that the cruel 



he orders 2,500 clays (' claias') along with eight prerogative of wreck had been lofumed before thai, 



bridges of 20 feet long, and fcvcn of 14 feet, for tin e. See above, p. 489. 

 (hipping horfes. 



