A. D. 1389. 601 



{Wal/mghatn, p. 315.] And this year, after Eafter, a merchant of Dart- 

 mouth,- with a fleet fitted out by himfelf, is faid to have taken ^^ veflels 

 loaded with about 1,500 tuns of Rochelle wine *. [^Knygbton, col. 2735.] 



June 18"' — In another truce with France the articles for inutual free- 

 dom of trade were inferted, as in that of 1384. {Foedera, V. v\i,p. 627.] 



The king Hcenced Hugh of Huhiie in Middlewych and his fons to 

 boil fait f and brew ale, and to fell them and other merchandize. \Rot. 

 pat. fee. 1 2 Kic. II, m. 1 1 .] 



He alfo granted to Thomas Scot the fifliery of the Thames from Lon- 

 don bridge down to Yenlade. {Rot. pat. Jec. 12 Rk. II, m. 21.] This 

 feems an invafion of the jurildiilion of the city : and it fubjected the 

 inhabitants to the extorfion of a mononolifh of river fifh. 



1 390, January — The parliament confidering, that the prices of pro- 

 vifions could not be permanently fixed :t^, directed, that the juftices of 

 peace fhould every year afcertain the wages to be given to tradefmen 

 and labourers, and alfo limit the price of provifions §. \Stat. 1,13 Ric. 

 II, f. 8.J 



Becaufe the cloths called cogware and Kendal cloths of the breadth of 

 three quarters or one yard, made in feveral parts of England, and ufual- 

 ly fold from 3/4 to 57 per piece to poor people, or for exportation, were 

 made of wool which was fit for no other ufe, they were allowed ftill to 

 be made of the accuftomed lengths and breadths, notwithftanding the 

 law for regulating the finer cloths, provided they were made of wool no 

 better than had hitherto been ufed for them. \Stat. 1,13 Ric. II, c. 10.] 



Frauds were now beginning to difgrace the woollen manufadure in 

 the counties of Somerfet, Dorfet, Briftol, and Gloucefter, then, as in 

 a great meafure now, the chief feats of it ; and a common mode of 

 evading detedion was to tack the cloths fo as to render it very difficult 

 to infped the inner part of the piece, which was fometimes of inferior 

 wool, different colour, deficient breadth, or otherways difhonefily made. 

 By thefe deceptions the merchants, who had the misfortune to export 

 fuch cloths, were expofed to great lofl'es ; even their lives were in danger 

 from the refentment of foreigners ; and the national character of the 

 manufadure was finking in foreign countries. It was therefor enaded, 

 that all cloths ftiould be fold, agreeable to the pradice in ElTex, without 

 any fuch tacking : and the cloth-workers, weavers, and fullers, were re- 



* Thefc feem the prizes, whicU, according to in a fiiigle privateer, alfo from Dartmouili, in the 



De Witt, [_Intere/l of Holland, p. 235 Engl. trari/I.J year 1745. 



the Engliili carried into Dort and Ziriczee ; and, f Tliole falt-works made a part of the revenue 



as thofe towns had refufed to join their earl in the of the Saxon kings, as noticed above, p. 295. 

 war againft Englaild, the veffcls belonging to J Such I conceive to be the medning of the 



merchants living in them were rellored by the words, ' pur ce qe homme ne purra mye mettre en 



Ensrliili captors. — If the numbers are near cot- ' certein les pris des bledz ei autres vitailles.' 

 left, the veflels carried lefs than ^3 tuns each, which § This aCt orders that no liolleller fhould make 



is not likely. This capture exceeded in number, bread for horfes, but it Ihould be made by tiie 



though probably not in value, the French fleet bakers. The hollelleis are allowed a proQi of a 



from Martinique, taken bv Commodore Walker halfpenny upon a bufliel of oats. 



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