A. D. 1394. 607 



foreign, money fhould not circulate, but be carried to the mint. [Stat. 

 17 Ric. 11, CI.] 



All perfons were now permitted to make cloth and kerfey of any 

 length and breadth, the quantity (and apparently alfo the fufficiency of 

 the fabric) being certified by the aulneger's feal, before it might be 

 offered for fale. {c. 2.] 



The merchants, and the makers of the fluff called y^wj'/i? worjled, were 

 allowed to export bolts of it to any country not at war with the king, 

 paying only the cuftoms and fubfidies without the Calais duties, not- 

 withflanding the charters granted to the burgefles of Calais and the 

 merchants of the ftaple of Calais. But they were not permitted to carry 

 any double worjleds or half doubles, ox Jlr'iped or moiled worjleds. [f . 3.] 



All the fubjedfs of England were allowed to export corn to any country 

 not hoftile, on paying the due cuftoms. A power was however referved 

 to the king's council to flop the exportation, if neceffary. [c. y.] 



According to the ordinances of Edward II and Edward III, the alder- 

 men of London continued in olHce only one year. But now it was enacted, 

 that they fhould not be removed out of office at all, unlefs for fome jufl; 

 and reafonable caufe *. — The ward of Farringdon being lately very much 

 increafed in houfes and inhabitants f , it was enadfed, that there fhould 

 be one alderman for the divifion within the walls, and another for the 

 divifion without, in all time coming, and that they fliould thenceforth 

 be called the wards of Farringdon within and Farringdon without. 

 [cc. ilr^S] 



Auguft 29'^ — The king, underftanding, that, in confequence of the 

 failure of herrings in other places %, many foreigners, with vefTels, fait, 

 and other requifites for curing herrings, had come laft year and this 

 year upon the coaft of York-fhire, where they had bought up great 

 quantities of herrings, which they faked and barreled, or cured red, 

 and carried away for their own advantage, to the great hurt of the 

 whole kingdom by raifmg herrings to an extravagant price, but efpecial- 

 ly of the inhabitants of Whitby, who fupported themlelves chiefly by 

 curing herrings, he therefor ordered the magiftrates of that town § to 

 proclaim, that no ftrangers fhould thenceforth be permitted to carry 

 away any herrings. [Fasdera, V. vii, p. 788.] We do not, however, 

 fee, that any attention, adequate to the importance of the objedf, was 



* Stow, in his lift of temporal governors at the of thofe gardens may be the modern Sali/bury 



end of liis Survey dates this alteration in the con- fquare. 

 ftitutioa of the city in the year 1354. % Werdenhagen [/. 3663 fays, the fifliery on 



•f- We muft not fuppofe, that this ward then the coaft of Schonen was interrupted by the pirates, 



approached to any refemblance of its prefent crowd- who infefted the Baltic fea. But King Richard'* • 



ed ftate. In the fecond year of Henry IV the mandate is far better authority, 

 bifhop of Saiifbury leafed two gardens in S'. Brides § Similar orders, we may prefiime, were fent to 



pariQi, Fleet ftrect for 80 years to George CrefTey, the other towns on the coall vilkcd by the her-- 



a citizen of London, at a rent of zcy' a-year. rings, thougli they do not appear. 

 l_Rot. j'tt./ei. z Hen. IV. m, 15.] Perhaps a part. 



