646 A. D. 1430. 



don, were fecured by a royal order from being moleiled by Englifh 

 cruifers ; but they were to pay the cuftomary duties *. [Fcedera, V. x, 

 p. 470.] About this time a great cannon, made for King James in 

 Flanders, and called ihe Lionf, was carried to Scotland. [Scoticbron^ V. 

 li,/. 490.] 



May 19'" — ^The king, or rather the council, borrowed ^50,000 for 

 the expenfes of a coronation in France. We find only fifteen cities and 

 towns in the records as lenders, whereof London gave £6,666 : 13 : 47, 

 Briftol £3^3 : 6 : 8, York £162, Coventry /^loo, Sarum £j2, and the 

 others frnaller fums, down to ^,^4. Of the clergy, the bilhop of Win- 

 chefter, cardinal of England, fubfcribed the enormous fum of ^£"9, 950 i/, 

 the prior of S'. John of Jerufalem £333 : 6 : 8 ; and feveral others 

 contributed frnaller furas. Sir John Cornwall was the only lay individ- 

 ual, whofe fubfcription was fo high as £s^°- [Fcedera, V. x, p. 461.] 



July 1 9''' — The fubje^ls of the crown of England were prohibited 

 from attending any market in Brabant, efpecially Antwerp, till proper 

 fteps fhould be taken for the fecurity of their perfons and property. 

 They were alfo ordered to purchafe no linens of Flanders or Hainalt, 

 nor any napery or bokeram made in thofe countries, except according 

 to the regulations made by the four members of Flanders, and lately 

 proclaimed in Ghent, Bruges, and other places in that country. [Fcedera, 

 V. x,/>. 471.] 



November S"" — A truce, to lafl one year from the firfi: of May, was 

 concluded with the king of Callile, wherein mutual freedom of trade 

 was llipulated ; and it was agreed, that any depredations committed on 

 either fide fi^ould be puniflied, and juftice done to the party injured, by 

 the fovereign of the offenders, without a breach of the treaty. It was 

 alfo mutually agreed, in order to prevent piracies, that no armed veffel 

 fhould be allowed to fail out of the ports of either kingdom, till fufla- 

 cient fecurity were given, that fhe fhould commit no hoflilities on the 

 fubje(fls of the allied king, nor carry any prizes whatever into any port, 

 but that from which fhe was fitted out. [Fa'dera, V. x, p. 473.] 



December 1 5'" — A further truce of five years, reckoning from the 

 i" of May 1 43 1, was concluded between England and Scotland, which 

 is moftly occupied with expedients for reflraining the border mar- 

 auders. The merchants, pilgrims, and filkers, of either kingdom were, 

 as in the former truce, not to be feized in the ports of the other, if 

 driven in by flrefs of weather ; and flnpwrccked men were to be allow- 

 ed to pafs to their own home. In cafes of piracy not only the princip- 



* ThoMgh James had been fo profitable a dear coufin the king of the Scots (' cariflimo con- 

 boarder to King Henry's grandfather, his fa- * fanguiiico noftro Jacobo lege Scotorum'). 

 ther, and liimfelf, the compliment, ufually paid to f Grafton fays, this Lion was tlie gun, which 

 foreign princes and prelates, of exempting their burft and killed King Jame« II at the fiegc of 

 goodj from cuftona, was withheld from liis mod Rokfbuvgli. 



