A. D. 1384. 597 



riving there, for gold or filver carried out of England. [Rot. pat. fee. 7 

 Ric. II, m. 13.] 



1385 — This year the governor of Calais, the feamen of the Cinque 

 ports, and others, took above 800 veflels of various kinds, fhips, gallies, 

 cogs, carracks, barges, lines, balingars, &c. from the French *. Of thefe 

 fome, which were taken near Calais, in confequence of the fleet being 

 difperfed by a florm in September, were remarkably large and lofty ; 

 one in particular had been recently built for the Norman merchants in 

 the Eaft country at the expenfe of 5,000 francs {jC^t,3 : 6 : 8 fterling) for 

 a proteclion to the reft of the fleet ; and they had fold her at Sluys to 

 Cliflx)n, the conftable of France, for 3,000 francs (;C50o). Another 

 fliip belonging to the fame Cliflbn, taken by the Cinque-port vefl^els, 

 was valued at 20,000 franks, which muft have comprehended her cargo, 

 and is therefor no great fum, if compared with the value of fome of 

 the Mediterranean fliips and cargoes. (See above, p. 504.) Two of them 

 were loaded with fpiceries, and fome of them with isohite herrings to the 

 amount of 400 lafts f. \Kiiyghton, col. 2676. — Walfingham, p. 318.] 



1386, March 28'" — In an order for prefllng veflels and feamen into 

 the king's fervice, the fifliermen of Blakney, Cley, Cromer, and the ad- 

 jacent coafts, were exempted. [Fa^dera, V. vii, p. 507.] As a contraft 

 to this indulgence, it may be obferved, that the fifliermen of Suflex and 

 Kent were taxed three pennies upon every boat-load for fortifying the 

 town of Rye. \Rot. pat. Jec.^ Ric. II, a tergo 32.] The fifliermen of 

 Rye moreover gave a fliare of their fifli to the king : and thofe of Win- 

 chelfea gave a fliare to the redor of the church. Probably both thofe 

 taxes were general, at leaft on that part of the coaft ; and in moft places 

 the fifliermen have been obliged to give a flrare of their earnings to their 

 fuperior lords :j:. 



June 27'" — In a truce between England and Scotland * it is accordit, , 

 ' that fpeciale afRirance fal be on the fee frathe Watir of Spec to the 



* Watir of Tamyfe, for all marchandes of bath the roialmes and here 

 ' godes §.' {Fcedera, V. vii,/). 527.] 



September 1 G"' — Loans to the king were now much more frequent than 

 formerly. There was one in the year 1382 ; and in that year the king , 



* Walfingliam fays, ' There were taken and flain was granted, probably rather confirmed, to the 

 ' in thofe (liips 226 feamen and mercenaries. BlelT- reftor of S^ Thomas's church in Winchtlfea by 



* ed be God for all things.' Henry IV. \_Rot. pat. prim. 37 Ed'W. Ill, m. 22; 



•J- It is pretty generally believed (notwitlilland- tc'rtia 2 Hen. IV, m. 30. j Prifes of lilh were due 



iog this and many other authentic proofs of the from the tilhermcn ot Hertlepool to the lord of 



contrary, to be found in this work) that no her- the place. \_Fadera, V. s\\\, p. 573.] 

 rings were cured in any other way than what are § Spee, Spey — I'amyle, Thamei — here godes, 



called red herrings, till Van Beukelen invented the tlxir goods, and cipecially cattle. — This is the fe- 



metiiod of curing luhite herrings in the fifteenth cond appearance of the native language of the 



century. country in Rymcr's Fadera yinglia, the lirll being 



;f Edward III granted to the abbat of Stanley alfo a truce between the two Britilli kingdoms, 



for ever the profits arifing from the ' kinge(hare' dated 15"' March 13S4-5, [/>. 468] which cou- 



in the fifliing boats of Rye. The tenth part of tains nothing relating to commerce. 

 "the fifh caught at Winchelfea, called ' Chriftelhare,' 



