A. D. 1409. 623 



The people of Hamburgh claimed reftitution to the amount of 9,1 17. 

 nobles i fhilling and 8 pennies ; and upon examination their demand 

 was reduced to 416 nobles 5 fliillings. 



At laft the commiflioners, or ambafladors, having made the befl fet- 

 tlement they could, King Henry now gave his obUgations as follows, viz. 

 To the grand mafter of Pruffia for his fubjeds of Pruflia and Livonia, 



payable 11'" November 1409 - EngUJh nobles s, 3'^^ 4 5 



2'' February 1410 - - _ 5,318 4 5 



2"* February 141 1 - - 10,637 2 2 



2^ February 141 2 - - - 10,637 2 2 



and to the magiilrates of Hamburgh, due 2^ Feb. 141 1 416 5 o 



At granting thefe bills he flipulated that the money fliould not be 

 carried away in gold or filver, but in bills of exchange *. 



The grand mafler, on the other hand, became bound to pay 766 

 nobles to the Englifh fufFerers. [Fcedera, V. viii, pp. 601-603. — Hakluyt^ 

 r. i, pp. 154-179-] 



December 4^'' — The commercial treaty with Pruffia was renewed. 

 Mutual freedom of trade, and oblivion of pafl injuries, were agreed 

 upon. In cafe of any fubfequent outrages the fovereigns were bound 

 to make fatisfadion for the aggreffions of their fubjeds ; failing which, 

 the fovereign of the party injured was at liberty to arreft any fubjed of 

 the other power, found in his dominions, within fix months after pre- 

 ferring the complaint. It was alfo fettled, that feveral fums, particular- 

 ly exprefled (and all reckoned in nobles), fliould be paid for outrages 

 committed by the feamen of Hull, Scarburgh, Blakney, Cromer, Ply- 

 mouth, Dartmouth, Calais, and Bayonne, and alfo by a vice-admiral of 

 England for provifions taken from a Pruffian fliip of 300 tuns, together 

 with 838 nobles due by Henry de Percy for corn bought for the caftle 

 of Berwick upon Tweed in 1403. On the other fide only 200 nobles 

 were found due for an outrage committed by a man of Dantzik. \H.ak' 

 /a/?, F. i, A 181 f.] 



1410, April 28"' — In a royal grant of tolls for paving the fireets of 



* I remember reading in a newfpaper a fjieech, al proof of the common currency of that fpecies 



made in reply to a rcmonftrance againft continent- of Englilli gold coin upon the continent, contrary 



al fubfidits, wherein it was aficrted, that this coun- to aft of parliament. 



try fuffered nothing by fuch fubfidits, as they were + The king's comminion for treating is in the 



paid m broad cloth and bills of exchange. The Foedera, as is alfo the treaty itfelf, but without the 



anlient politicians of England, like this modern flipulations for compcnfation, in a confirmation of 



one, mull have fuppofed that bills of exchange it in December 14 lo by the fucceeding grand maf-- 



could begot for nothing. — The ftatement of all ler. \Fii:dcra, }', viii, pl>. 61 2, 664.I 

 tlie accounts in Ensrlilh noblss affords an additioii- 



