A. D. 1425. 641 



racks, one of which (' navis immaniflima'j was wrecked near Leith by 

 a fudden ftorm with a fpring tide on the change of the moon *. ^Sco/i- 

 chron. V. ii, p. 4S7.] 



The I'lemings, as aUies of England, having commiitcd feveral hoftil- 

 ities againft the Scots, the alUes of France, King James had ordered the 

 flaple of the Scottifli commerce in the Netherlands to be removed to 

 Middleburg in Zeland. About the end of this year the Flemings fent 

 umbafladors to Scotland to folicit the return of the trade, which was 

 granted in coniideration of more ample privileges ftipulated for the 

 Scottifh merchants in Flanders f. [Scotichroti. //>.] 



The Florentines having acquired the port of Leghorn by purchafe, 

 were defirous of participating in the lucrative commerce of Alexandria, 

 then almoil entirely in the hands of the Venetians. Their firfl: fhin 

 carried ambafladors with prefents for the fultan of Egypt, who granted 

 them permiflion to eftablifli fettlements in his dominions, with a churchy 

 warehoufe, bath, &c, and a conlul, at each, with all the privileges grant- 

 ed to the Venetians jl. [Leibnitz, Mantljpi. Cod. jur. gent. dipl. pars 2, p. 

 163 Rofcoe's Life of Lor. de Mediti, V.i, p. 136.] 



1426, February 18'" — Formerly one of the aldermen of London ufed 

 to ad. as a judge in mercantile caufes, wherein the German merchants of 

 the Hanfe reliding in England were parties : but for above feven years 

 the magiftrates of London had refufed to appoint any one of their num- 

 ber to adl in that capacity. After repeated applications of the Hanfe 

 merchants to parliament, the king now nominated Alderman Crowmer 

 to the office of alderman and judge of the Hanfe merchants §. {Fcedera, 

 F;x,/>. 351.] 



March — The Scottifh parliament directed the merchants returning 

 from foreign countries to import harncfs (defenfive armour), fpears, 

 fhafts, bows, and ftaves They renewed the unavailing law for confin- 

 ing money within the kingdom, and fubjeded foreign merchants, not 

 only to the infpedion of their hofls, but alfo 10 the controul of two 

 fupervifors in every port. — They ordained, that uniform meafures of the 

 boll, firlot, half firlot, peck, and gallon, conform to ftandards kept at 

 Edinburgh, Ihould be ufed throughout the kingdom. ; that all goods 

 fold by weight (hould be weighed by the ftone, containing fifteen law- 

 ful Troye pounds, equal to fixteen lawful Scottifh pounds , and that the 



•0 '!:.j: . :■■■'- ■■'-■ 



* The failors cf this great (liip, accuftomed ap- treaty with the Flemings. [^Scolic/jron. V. ii, p. 



patently only to the ahiioil-tidclefs Mecliterranean 509.] Perhaps he is coiifuledly repeating the 



fea, were not aware of the great rife of the fpring fame tranfaftlon a fccond time, 



tides on our Britijh fhorts, and their (liip feems to J A fptcimen of the fales of the Florentine 



have been loft by diaijging her anchors or parting woollen manufadlures has already been given in the 



lier cables. She was^vrccked at Granton about view of the commerce of Venice under the year 



three miles above Leith. J420. 



-j- Bowar nieniions, without any date, a pacific- J In the year 1442 we find the king making a 



ition between King James and the Hollanders, fimilar nomination of Alderman Frowyk. [Fctdera, 



with fome circumliances fimilar to thofe of this V. xi,/. 16.] 



Vol. I. 4 M 



