A. D. 1367. 575- 



half a mark for every pound (or i6j per cent), the duty impofed in the 

 year 1347 being thus lowered to one half: but foreigners were permit- 

 ted to carry away the money brought by themfelves without paying any 

 duty. They alfo further enforced the duties, formerly impofed, of forty 

 pennies in the pound on the price of horfes, and twelve pennies on that 

 of oxen and cows* carried out of the country : and they made fome re- 

 gulations refpeding the payment for things taken for the royal houfe- 

 hold, fimilar to thofe lately enadled in England. {^Siat. Dav. II, cc. 37, 

 38, 46. 48, 49, 52.] 



1368, Januai-y — That the armourers of England were fupcrior to thofe 

 of Scotland, and probably alfo to thofe of fome other countries, appears 

 from the petitions of two Scottifh gentlemen to King Edward for leave 

 to purchafe armour in London for a duel, which they were engaged to 

 fight in Scotland. Their petitions were granted : but fo much was arm- 

 our an objed: of the jealous attention of government, that the various 

 pieces they were permitted to buy were carefully fpecified. Further 

 proofs of the fuperiority of the armour, and of the jealouly. of govern- 

 ment refpe6ling it, alfo appear in fome of the pallports granted to Scot- 

 tifh travelers in England, wherein they are charged to curry no armour 

 out of the country. [Fcedera, V. vi, pp. 582, 583, 584, &c.] 



May I'-' — ^The permiflion, lately granted to the Engliih to import wine 

 from Gafcoigne, was now revoked ; and they were not even allowed to 

 bargain for any wine, till after it was landed by the foreign importer. 

 [A6is^ 42 Edw. Ill, c. 8.] As the natives of England were now de- 

 barred from exporting wool and wool-fells, and from- importing wine, 

 the chief articles of the trade of the country, we need not wonder, that 

 they looked upon foreign merchants with an evil eye. I believe, no 

 writer has ever attempted to account for thefe extraordinary prohibi- 

 tions, fo glaringly and diametrically oppolite to the moft obvious prin- 

 ciples of commercial policy and common fenfe. 



May 4'" — King Edvv^ard took under his protedion John Uneman, Wil- 

 liam Uneraan, and John Lietuyt, clock-makers from Delf, who pro- 

 pofed to carry on their bufinefs in England : and he ordered all his fub- 

 jeds to proted and defend them from all injuries *. {Fasdera, V. vi, p. 



May 24''' — The king had promiied by a charter to the burgefles of 

 Berwick upon Tweed, that they fhould be governed by the fame laws 

 and cuftoms, which had been eftablilhed in the reign of Alexander king 

 of Scotland. On their complaint of encroachments upon their rights, 

 he ordered his warden and chamberlain of that town to pay due atten- 

 tion to the laws of Scotland, and regulate their proceedings by them, 



* Thefe were probably the firft profeffed clock, chanifm in the beginning of this reig.n (fee above, 

 makers in England. Wallingford, abbat of S'. j». 503) was a volunteer artift. 

 Albans, who conllruded a wonderful piece of rao 



