A. D. 1382. 595 



from buying any frefh fifli to fell again, except eels, luces *, and pikes, 

 which either they or the foreigners might fell in London. [Stat, i , $■ 

 Ric. II, c. II.] 



Odlober 22" — The exportation of corn appears not to have been law- 

 ful without fpecial licences ; but now a general proclamation was iflued, 

 prohibiting, under penalty of veflel and cargo, any exportation of corn 

 or malt to any foreign country, except to the king's territories in Gaf- 

 coigne, Bayonne, Calais, Breft, Cherburg, Berwick upon Tweed, and 

 other forts held for the king. [Fcedera, V. vii, p. 369.] 



1383 — In the beginning of this year a large Genoefe carrack was 

 driven by ftrefs of weather into Sandwich f. It was reported, that the 

 merchants of London, who had on hand great quantities of fruit, va- 

 rious fpicery, oil, &c. fearing that their goods would be rendered un- 

 faleable by the arrival of fo great a quantity of freflier articles, bribed 

 the Genoefe to fail for Flanders : and it was faid, that their cargo, if it 

 had been landed, was fufficient to make a glut of the articles it confid- 

 ed of throughout the whole country. {IValfingham, p. 296.] But we 

 may be permitted to doubt, if one cargo, though a very large one, could 

 have had fuch an effed, efpecially as the Genoefe were under no oblig- 

 ation to fell their goods under their value. 



October — There being great complaints of frauds in cloth, the parli- 

 ament ordered, that all cloths expofed to fale, and found contrary to 

 law, Ihould be confifcated, and the informer fhould have one third of 

 the value %• i^^s 7 Ric. II, c 9,] 



The reftraints put upon the fale of wines, vidluals, fifli, &c. were re- 

 pealed : and the dealers were placed under the controul of the mayor 

 and aldermen of London. [AEls 7 Kic. Ily c. 11.] 



No perfon was permitted to carry armour, corn, malt, or any other 

 viduals or refrefhments to Scotland. \_A£is 7 Ric. II., c. 14.] 



1384, January 26'" — A truce was concluded between King Richard 

 and his adverfary of France, to continue till fun-rifing on the i" of Oc- 

 tober 1384. The merchants of both countries were allowed to trade in 

 either country in lawful merchandize, but not in armour or other pro- 



* A luce is a pike in the laft ftage of his growth, ceiving a large fliip. In the year 1385 two Frencli 



The gradation of uames is frie, gilt-head, pod, prize (hips, which were too large to get into Ca- 



jack, pickerel, pike, luce. [^Harrifun's Dtfcrip- lais, were brought over to Sandwich. \_Walfmg' 



t'lon of Brilain, p. 224 in Hohurticd, ed. 1586.] ham, p. 319.3 See an account of the changes, 



f Sandwich has apparently arifen in place of this Itrait, or river, has undergone, by Doctor 



Rhutupis, the principal port of Britain in the time Campbell, \_Polhical Survey, y. i, p. 392] who 



uf the Romans, when there was a navigable arm would have been glad to add the arrival of thefe 



of the fea, open at both ends, between Thanet (hips to the fads he has colledlcd. 

 and tlie main land. The llrait was much diminilh- % It appears, that the aulnage, or ulnage, was 



ed in the age of Bcde, and has (ince dried up en- farmed : \_Rot. pat. fee. 8 Rk. 11, tn. 27] and 



titely, its place being now moftly occupied by two thence it is probable, that the duty was not very 



Imallriveia; audi apprehend this great carr?ck faithfully performed. About this time there are 



muft have rode in the bay befoie Sandwich, but very frequent orders in the patent roUi. for a ftri^t 



could not enter the river, which probably never inl'pec^ion uf cloth otfcred for fale. 



V95 capable, fmcc it became a mere river, of re- 



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