624 A. D. 1410. 



Cambridge and the adjacent roads, there are fome things worth notice. 

 Coals (fold by the chalder), turfs, reeds, and fegs (fedges), appear to 

 have been articles of fuel; falmon, frefh or faked, wxi'A. porpufes , paid one 

 farthing each ; herrings, a halfpenny per barrel ; a large boat (' navis') 

 loaded with herrings or other fifh, ifd ; a fifhing boat with fifli, oifters, 

 or muffels, 2d ; a cart-load of fifh, frefh or falted, 2d. Irifh cloth muft 

 have been pretty common in England, as we find it here charged, 

 equally with worfted fluffs, canvas, and fome other articles, 2^ per hun- 

 dred (' centena'). \Fcedera, V. viii, p. 634.] 



This year Sir Robert I'mfraville, vice-admiral of England, with ten 

 fhips of war, entered the Firth of Forth, both coafls of which he plun- 

 dered, the Scots having apparently had no naval force fit to oppofe to 

 him. He burnt many veflels, among which was one, probably belong- 

 ing to the crown, diftinguifhed by the name of the Galliot of Scotland; 

 and he carried off fourteen veflels (called good fiiips), with prizes of 

 woollen and linen cloth, pitch, tar, woad, meal, wheat, and rye. Un- 

 fortunately we are not able to diftinguifh, what part of thofe goods were 

 Scottifh manufacture and produce, and what imported : but, if there is 

 no exaggeration, the quantity of them was fo very great, that the falc 

 of them lowered the prices in England ; and thence Umfraville got the 

 name of Robin Mend-market. IStow, udnn. p. 549.] 



141 1 , June 25"" — Guns were now become an article of Englifh manu- 

 facture and exportation, as appears by a licence for fending two fmall 

 guns for a fhip, along with the king's great gun, to Spain. [Fardera, 

 V. viii, p. 694.] 



1 41 2, February 3* — The fliare, which the Englifh had now obtained 

 of the active commerce of Europe, was fuch as aroufed the jealouiy of 

 thofe mercantile communities, who, in virtue of long, and almoft unri- 

 valed, occupancy, conceived the commerce and navigation of Europe 

 to be their own patrimonial inheritance : and, agreeable to the ferocious 

 and unprincipled manners of the age, they had recourfe to the moft 

 atrocious meafures for crufhing the Englifli adventurers, before they 

 fhould acquire much wealth and power. William Waldern and a con- 

 fiderable number of other principal citizens of London * hud Ihipped 

 wool and other goods, to the amount of ^^24,000, onboard feveral 

 veflels f for the Mediterranean J, under the care of fadors, or fupei*- 



• William Waldern was clefleJ mayor in 1412 t ' Verfus partes occidentales per Didridlus de 



and 1422. His partners were Drue Barantyn, ' Mam k' (to the wcllern countrits /i_)' (01 //jroB^;,'/j) 



mayor in 1^98, 1408, who lent the king ^1,500 the Snails of Morocco) ; chat is to lay, w/V/j/n the 



in 1409; \_Rot. />al. fee. 11 Hen. IV, m, 5] John Midilerraiiean. For the application of wi/fern to 



Reynewell, mayor in 1426 ; and other gentlemen, coiintiics ii:A\\y foulh-etij} from England, lee above, 



who had been fliirrefa, ice. p. 588 note, and p. 610. There is nut a (liadow 



\ We are not told, whether the vclTcls were of a reafon to fiippofc the voyage intended for 



Entrlifh or foreign ; awd Mr. Anderfon fuppofes Morocco, a coui.tiy which never had occafion to 



them Venetian, and thereby accounts for the fciz- import wool. The fliips were probably dcllined 



lire by the Gcnoefc. But there feenis no reafon to Catalonia or Tufcany. 

 to fuppofe them any other than Englifli. 



