A, D, 1409. 621 



pieces of wax, 4 handred of werke, and half a laft of ofmunds*, near 

 the coall of Norway. — In 1396 a cog of Hull, with 300 woollen broad 

 cloths and 1,000 other cloths, value X^200, was taken. — In 1398 an- 

 other veiTel of Hull, with oil, wax, and werke, value ;i^3oo, was taken 



In 1399 an Englifli paflenger in a Dantzik veflel was robbed of two 

 cakes of wax, value /^i 8 — In 1394 werke, wax, ofmunds, and bow- 

 flaves, to the value of 1,060 nobles, belonging to three citizens of 



York, were taken out of a veflel of Elbing 140 woollen cloths, worth 



j^2 : 13 : 4 each, befides other things, were taken from another citizen 



of York onboard a veflel of Holland In 1393 ^ citizen of London was 



robbed of woollen cloth, green cloth, meal, and fifli, to the value of 



;^I33 : 6 : 8 In 1405 another citizen of London was plundered of 5 



lafl:s of herrings in the North found In 1398 eleven packs of woollen 



cloth, value £2>^6 : 13 : 4, the property of merchants of Colchefl:er, were 

 plundered out of a Pruffian veffel. — In 1 394 four merchants of Yarmouth 

 and Norwich v-ere robbed of woollen cloth to the value of £666 : 13 : 4, 

 which they had onboard a Pruflian veflel. — In 1401 a veflel belonging 

 to Zeland was plundered of hides of oxen and flieep, butter, mafts, fpars, 

 boards, quefting ftones, and wild werke, value £66 : 13 : 4, the property 



of a merchant of Yarmouth In 1402 a barge belonging to Yarmouth 



was taken near Plymouth, with 130 weys of fait and 1 ,000 pieces of 

 canvafs of Brctagne, value £3;^^ : 6 : 8. — In 1405 another vefl^el of Yar- 

 mouth was taken in Selaw, a port of Norway, loaded with fait, cloth, 



and falmon, value ;^40 Six veilels belonging to Cley, chiefly loaded 



with fait fifli, were taken, and moft of them, carried over to Norway. — 

 The people of Wiveton loft two doggers and another veflel employed in 

 the fifliery, with their fifli, &c. and two veflels of Zeland, loaded in Pruf- 

 fia with mafts, fpars, &c. for account of a merchant of that town, who 

 alfo loft a pack of woollen cloth, plundered out of a vefl'el belonging to 



Lynne In the year 1394 the pirates took Bergen in Norway, and 



burnt twenty-one houfes, value £^46 : 13 : 4, belonging to the merch- 

 ants of Lynne, whom they alfo plundered of proj^jerty to the amount of 

 ;^i,8i5. — In 1394 four veflels of Lynne, loaded with cloth to the value 

 of jr3, 623 : 5 : II, befides wine and other goods, were taken on their 

 way to Pruflia. — In 1396 a crayer belonging to Lynne, with ofmunds 

 and other goods to the value of ^^643 : 14 : 2, was taken between Bergen 

 and the Scaw ; and two veflels were robbed of cloth and other goods, 

 alfo belonging to merchants of Lynne. — In 1399 many articles of con- 

 liderable value, belonging to a merchant of Lynne, were plundered out 

 of a veflel, apparently foreign, belonging to Michael Van Burgh. The 

 complainants further ftated, that many men were killed, and many car- 

 ried away as prifoners, and forced to pay heavy ranfoms : and the Eng- 

 lifli commiflloners aflerted, that thofe outrages were perpetrated by pi- 



f I can find no fatisfaftory explanation of werie, ofmunds, and feme other articles intntioJied in tktfe 

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