632 A. D. 1417. 



three of which had the names of the Trinity, the Grace de Dieu, and the 

 Holy Ghqft. But the principal veflels of the whole fleet, wherewith he 

 now made his fecond invafion of France, were two large fhips, mofl; 

 magnificently fitted up. One of them, called the Kings Chamber, in 

 which he embarked himfelf, carried a fail of purple filk (furely only for 

 holiday exhibitions) whereon the arms of England and France were 

 embroidered ; and the other, called the King's hall, "was alfo very fump- 

 tuoufly adorned *. {Fragment, and Libell of EngliJJ? policy, in Hakluyt, V. 

 h pp. 185, 203 — Tit. Liv. Fit. Hen. V,p. '7,-i,?[ 



We have already I'een that the Normans were the mofl fpirited merch- 

 ants in France ; and, as commerce and manufadtures mutually fupport 

 each other, we find them alfo the greateft manufacturers, at leaft in 

 the woollen branch. The arrival of the Englifh army in Normandy 

 ftruck fuch a terror throughout the province, that above twenty-five 

 thoufand families fled from it into the adjacent province of Bretagne 

 (whofe duke was then in friendfliip with King Henry) and carried the 

 art of making woollen cloth among the Bretons, who were hitherto ig- 

 norant of it : and thus was Henry's invafion the means of fpreading 

 that manufadure more widely through France. {Meyeri Ann. Flandr. 

 f. 250 b.] 



1418, May 4'^ — King Henry, having got pofi'eflion of Normandy, 

 and underftanding that his fubjedls of that country had been grievoufly 

 opprefTed by heavy duties impofed upon fait in times pafi: by his adver- 

 faries, and tyrannically compelled to buy fait at exorbitant prices, gave 

 notice, that he, being defirous to relieve his poor people from fuch op- 

 prefiion, and to govern them according to jufl:ice, licenced the Normans 

 and his other French fubjeds to buy whatever quantities of fait they 

 fhould think proper in places to be appointed by him. And forafmuch 

 as it was ufual in all Chrift;ian kingdoms to levy cufi:om upon every 

 kind of merchandize bought or fold, and fait among others, and he was 

 in great need of money to carry on the war, he impofed a duty of one 

 fourth part of all fait fold, to be levied in kind or in money at his op- 

 tion, and ordered that all filt ftiould be fi:ored in warehoufes to be efta- 

 blifiicd by him, and meafured by his meafurers, under penalty of for- 

 feiture of the fait, the flefh faked, carts, horfes, harnefs, &c. [Fcedera^ 

 r. ix,/>. 583.] 



September 24'*" — Alfonfo king of Aragon having about a year before 

 granted protection to the fubjeds of England with their vefl^els and merch- 

 andize in his territories, which feems to have been little, if any thing, 

 more than a fliadow of favour in order to obtain a fubftance by way of 

 rcciprocration, King Henry now granted fimilar protedion to the fub- 



• As the Libctl of Englifli policy has no men- been given on the occafion to two of the three 

 tion of the King's chamber and the King's hall, large (hips piirlicularly named in it. 

 it is not improbable, tliat thofe nanncs inay liave 3 



