A. D. 1416. 631 



Champagne in France, and of Flanders and Brabant in the Netherlands *. 

 [Foedera, V. ix, pp. 334, 335.] 



' Henry Barton (mayor of London) ordained lanthornes with lights 

 ' to be hanged out in the winter evenings betwixt Hallontide and 

 ' Candlemaflb.' [Stoiv''s Survey, p. 935.] 



This year the Hollanders in their herring fiftiery began to ufe the 

 veflels called bufTes. [^Schoockn Differ t, dehareng. § 35.] 



1417, July 31" — The truce with the duke of Burgundy, who was 

 alfo earl of Flanders, Bologne, &c. was renewed till Eafter 1 41 9. It 

 was agreed, that during war with Genoa all goods, belonging to the 

 Flemings or others, found onboard Genoefe velFels, fhould be liable to 

 feizure and condemnation ; but that the property of the Englilh in Flan- 

 ders and of the Flemings in England fhould not be liable to any arreft, 

 unlefs for debts contraded, or crimes committed, after the date of the 

 truce. In the fubfequent confirmation by the duke, it was alfo provid- 

 ed, that no damage fhould be done to the merchants, feamen, pilgrims, 

 clergymen, and fifhers, on either fide ; that veflels belonging to either 

 party, taken by corfairs, and carried into the ports of the other party, 

 fhould be reftored to their owners, or the value be made good to them ; 

 provifions and merchandize might be imported in neutral veflels into 

 either country without moleftation ; unarmed merchant vefTels chafed 

 by enemies fhould be freely admitted into the ports of either party ; 

 the Englifh fhould make a ipacious road from Calais to Gravelings, and 

 the Flemings fhould continue it along the Downs of Flanders, for the 

 ufe of merchants and other perfons of both countries, who were to have 

 no dogs with them, and not to moled the rabbits on the Downs ; the 

 Englifli fhould have the liberty to make fafl their vefTels in the Flemifh 

 ports, as pradifed by the French, Hollanders, Zelanders, and Scots, the 

 Flemings having the like liberty in the Englifh ports ; neither party 

 fhould carry goods belonging to the enemies of the other. The duke 

 moreover engaged, that the four members of Flanders fhould become 

 bound for the due execution of this treaty, and that he would obtain 

 the confirmation of his over-lord, the king of France. It was alfo de- 

 clared, that the treaty fhould be obferved in all his territories from the 

 coaft of Flanders to Cologne on the Rhine ; and that no infringement 

 of any of the articles by individuals of either fide, nor even war be- 

 tween France and England, fhould efFed any breach of it. \Fadera, V. 

 'r%,pp. 476, 483.] 



Augufi: — King Henry, obferving that the fhips, brought to aflifl the 

 French by the Caflilians and Genoefe, were much larger than thofe of 

 his fleet, had got fome large vefl^els, called dromons, built at Southamp- 

 ton, fuch, fays an old writer, as were never feen in the world before, 



* The excellence of the linens of thofe coun- ation. Fine linen of Rlicims made a part of the 

 tries is celebrated in many romances and poems prefents fent by the king of France to Bajazet, a) 

 'jompofed before the age now under our confider- already noticed, p. 698. 



