590 A. D. 1379. 



hands, is a powerful encouragement to every branch of the induftry of 

 the country in which^they fettle, that they were continually perfecuting 

 the foreign traders and workmen with every iniult and injury in their 

 power. The weavers in particular were perpetually quarreling with the 

 Netherianders, whofe example was deflined to exalt their trade to a fur- 

 prifing height of affluence and dignity. After a long fucceffion of 

 fquabbles, embittered by national pride and a collifion, real or fuppofed, 

 of interefts, between the weavers of London and thofe from the Nether- 

 lands *, an agreement was effeded between them this year, which was 

 confirmed by royal authority, as were alfo at the fame time the liberties 

 granted to the foreign weavers by Edward III. [Rot. pat. fee. 3. Ric. 11, 

 m. "^.J 



1380, February 10'" — The accident of a Catalan fliip bound from 

 Genoa to Sluys, the port of Bruges in Flanders, being driven onfhore 

 at Dunfter in Somerfet-fhire, where llie was feized, and the application 

 of fome Genoefe merchants for the reftoration of their property fhipped 

 onboard her, gives us a fpecimen of the articles carried from Italy to 

 Flanders in thofe days. They confifled of 



Green ginger ; White sugar, perhaps sugar-candy ; 



Ginger cured with lemon juice ; Empty boxes, 6 bales; 



Arquinetta, one bale ; Dry primes ; 



Dried grapes, or raisins ; ' Oclo balas risarum,' qu. rice ? 



Sulphur ; Cinnamon, 5 bales ; 



Wadde (perhaps woad) 172 bales ; One pipe * pulveris salvistri;' 



Writing paper, 22 bales ; Bussus f , 5 bales. 



[Fcedera, F. vii,/). 233.] 



Summer — Some privateers of Hull and Newcaftle took a Scottifli fhip, 

 the cargo of which was valued by the captors at Jeven thoufand marks. 

 [Walfingham, p. 239.] But there were probably very few veflels, belong- 

 ing either to England or Scotland, which had cargoes of fuch value J. 



September 8"'— What muft have been the condition or management 

 of the navy of England, when the French, after having infulted many 

 parts of the fouth coaft, went up the Thames as far as Gravefend with 

 only four gallies, burnt fome houfes in that town, and after plundering 

 and deftroying on both fides of the river, carried off their prey and 

 prifoners with impunity ? {Murim. Contin. p. 150. — Stow's Ann. p. 449.] 



November The king in parliament, ordered, that all kinds of wine, 



oil, honey, and other liquors, fhould be gauged on importation, agree- 

 able to the law formerly made for gauging wine. [Stat. 4 Ric. II., c. i.] 



* Some years before tliis time the Nethcrlaiid ritd to Tlaiiders for making cambrics. Sec San- 



weavcrs in London were fo numerous, tliat ditfer- iito, p. 24, or above, p. 491. Tlicre arc fome 



cnt places were appointed for their deliberations other articles unknown, which I have left in the 



on the affairs of their communilies, thofe of Flan- original Latin.— A further fpecimen of Genoefe 



ders having the church-yard of S'. Laurence Pult- expotts to Flanders will be feen under the year 



iiey, and thore of Brabant tliat of S'. Mary So- 13S6. 



merfet. ISloiu's Survey, p. ^o-], e,l. 1 61 8.] " f I have already had occafion to obferve that 



t Probably the linell Egyptian flax (Bvjsoj) car- Walfingham dallies his numbers at random. 



