A. D. 135 1- 545 



or of any other country. Guardians were to be appointed to attend 

 to the obfervation of the truce, to punifli tranfgreffors, and to give re- 

 drefs to the parties injured within two months. Spanifli property found 

 onboard any veflel taken by the Englifh fliould be reftored to the own- 

 ers, and in like manner EngUfli property fhould be refpedled by Spanifli 

 captors. And the Spanifli fifliermen were permitted to come freely and 

 fafely to fifli in the ports of England and Bretagne, paying the duties 

 and cufl;oms *. [Fa^dera, V. v,p. 717.] 



September 4"" — The merchants of Scotland had now attained fuch a 

 degree of refpedability, that their oaths and fecurities were required 

 by King Edward, along with thofe of the prelates, lords, and other 

 principal fubjeds of Scotland, for the performance of fome articles, of 

 the nature of which we are not informed. {F<jedera, V. v, p. 723.] 



It was this year ordained, that the fame meafures and weights fliould 

 be ufed in Ireland that were ufed in England. [Rot. pat. fee. 25 Edw. 

 Ill, m. 14.] 



1352 — The Genoefe colony of Pera, in the pride of their commercial 

 profperity, had afliimed the fovereignty of the Black fea, infulted the 

 adjacent capital of the feeble fovereigns of the Roman world, and burnt 

 two of the five gallics, which conftituted the imperial navy. After- 

 wards, without any exertion, they defeated a fleet of feven gallies and 

 fome fmaller vefl^els, which the emperor had colleded and fent againft: 

 them ; and with equal eafe they repulfed his military forces from their 

 walls (fpring 1349), and compelled him to cede a tradt of land, which 

 they found ufeful to themfelves. The war between the obftinate rival 

 republics of Venice and Genoa f being renewed, a fleet of gallies from 

 Chio, an ifland lately fubjeded to the dominion of Genoa by a fleet of 

 privateers, took the town of Negropont and the ifland of Cia from the 

 Venetians. The later thereupon made an alliance with the Catalans : 

 and the emperor of Conftantinople, provoked by a frefli infult of his 

 Genoefe neighbours at Pera, acceded as a humble ally to thofe power- 

 ful maritime ftates, and added his fleet of eight gallies x.o fixty-feven vefl^Is 

 of war, which they fent into the narrow ftrait between Afia and Europe. 

 There, before the walls of Confl;antinople and Pera, they were encount- 

 ered hy fixty-four Genoefe veflels, flronger and larger than theirs. The 

 allies loil fourteen Venetian, ten Catalan, and two Greek, veflels ; the 

 Genoefe lofl only thirteen, and claimed the vidlory (9"" March, 1352) :|;. 



* Such a licence muft have been an excellent .% Stella reckons about 45 Venetian, 30 Catalan, 



cover for fmuggling. 14 Gieek, and only 60 Genoefe, veflels: and 



f I have not thought it necefiary to ftain thefe other writers have other numbers. Stella fays 



pages with the recital of all the battles between that the Greeks declined the battle, and the G*- 



the fleets of Venice and Genoa, which were cor.- noefe had a complete viclory. 1 have followed 



diitted with a fanguinary ferocity that would dif- Nicepluirus Gregoras, who feems the moll im- 



grace the traditional fongs of the moll lavage partial lelator of the events of this war. 

 tribes of America 01 New Zealand. 



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