6o6 A. D. 1393. 



1393, January — London, and the other incorporated communities, 

 were now indulged with ap ad: of parHament, prohibiting all foreign 

 merchants from buying and felling with each other, and from cutting 

 up or retailing any goods *, except provifions (' vivres et vitailes'). No 

 fpiceries were to be carried out of the kingdom, either by denizens or 

 aliens. [Stat. 16 Ric. II, c. i.] Thus, after being unfairly deprived of 

 their jufl rights, were the citizens of London, in return for what ought 

 ]iot to have been demanded from them, gratified with what ought not 

 to have been granted to them. 



March 8"" — Some merchants of Plafencia, a city on the north coafl 

 of Spain, having plundered Nicholas CoUyng of Chepftow, the king had 

 granted him letters of reprifal to the amount of ;^3,20o, that he might 

 recompenfe himfelf by taking veffels belonging to Plafencia ; and he 

 had moreover, at his fuit, imprifoned all the Plafencians found in Eng- 

 land. But at the requeft of the earl of Virtues (' comitis Virtutum'}, 

 the lord of that city, who appears to have undertaken to compenfate the 

 damage, the letters were now fufpended. [Foedera, V. v'n, pp. 740, 749.] 



April 20'" — Margaret, queen of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, the 

 countries whofe naval power four centuries before this time had been 

 a terror to all the weilern coafls of Europe, finding her fleet fcarcely 

 able to make head againft that of the Hanfe towns, and having applied 

 to the king of England for his afllftance, he licenced three large warlike 

 ihips of Lynne, with their commanders and mariners, to enter into her 

 fervice. \Fcsdera, V. vii, p. 744.] 



April 22* — ^The following articles, which were permitted to be (hipped 

 at London for the duke of Bretagne without paying any duty, may ap- 

 parently be confidered as fpecimens of the manufactures, filhery, and 

 trade of England, viz. i piece and 1 5 elns of fcarlet cloth ; 9 cloths of 

 various colours ; 1 5 elns of blanket f ; 1 5 elns of black cloth ; 1 6 faddles ; 

 3 buts of Malvefey wine ; 132 pounds of fugar ; 50 grelings, 50 lings, 

 3 barrels of white herrings, 4 cades of red herrings, 120 fiock-fifh ; 

 12 brafs pots with covers, and fundry other articles of metal ; i bed of 

 bloody colour and green with 8 ' tapetis' (figured cloths, or perhaps bed 

 blankets) and curtains ; i image of alabafler. and feveral fmall articles. 

 \Fcedera, V. vii, p. 745.] From fome other fuch licences, occurring in 

 the fubfequent parts of the Foedera (and particularly V. viii, />. 117) it 

 appears, that the goldfmiths of England flill kept up their reputation as 

 excellent workmen. 



1394, January — It was enabled that no filver money fliould be melted 

 for making veflels or any other things ; and that Scottifh, or other 



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It vmy be rcmaiked once for all, that the upon foreign doalors in fifli, S:c. was repealed by 



tranfient foreign merchant, who could fubmit to Henry IV in the firft year of his reign. 



the petty drudgery of retailing his goods, mulb f Blanket, a coarfe kind of cloth, allotted for 



have liad but a very trifling cargo.— The rcftraiut the drefs of country lubourers by parliament in tlie 



3 ycai- 1363. 



