650 A, D. 1436. 



But the king's council, determined to cut off all communication or in- 

 tercourfe, forbad all foreigners to import any goods whatever from 

 Flanders. The orders were addrefled to the warden of the Cinque ports, 

 to the fhirrefs of London, and to the mayors and bailifs of Kingftou 

 upon Hull, Southampton, Chichefter, Briflol, Lynne, Orwell, Bofton, 

 Yarmouth, Colchefter, and Pool. 



Odober — The parliament of Scotland enacted, that the exporters of 

 ■yvool fliould give fecurity to bring home, and deliver to the mafter of 

 the mint, three ounces of bullion for every fack of wool, nine ounces 

 for a laft of hides, and three ounces for fuch quantity of any other goods 

 as paid freight equal to a ferplaith *. — No perfon was allowed to purchafe 

 Engliih cloth or other goods from Engliflimen ; and Engliilimen, hav- 

 ing permillion to enter Scotland, v/ere not permitted to carry any goods 

 with them, unlefs fpecified in their fafe-condu6ts. — The Scots were pro- 

 hibited from felling falmon to Engliflimen by previous contract, and' 

 were directed either to fell them in Scotland for prefent payment in 

 gold, or to export them to Flanders, or any other foreign country ex- 

 cept England. — They were alfo prohibited from buying wine in Scot- 

 land imported by the Flemings of the Dam. \_^6is Jac, I, cc. 160, 162, 

 163, 164.] 



William Elphinflon, who is reputed the founder of the commerce of 

 Glafgow, flourifhed in the reign of James I f . His trade is fuppofed to 

 have confifted in exporting pickled falmon. \Gibfoiis Hiji. of Glafgow^ 

 p. 203.] 



1437, January — As the law flood in England, no corn could be ex- 

 ported without a fpecial licence from the king, whereby the prices of 

 corn were fometimes kept rather under their fair value. For relief to 

 the farmers, it was now enacted, that all perfons, without applying for 

 licence, might fhip corn for any country in friendfliip with the king, 

 whenever wheat fhould not exceed 6/?, and barley 3/, per quarter. {Acts 

 15 Hen. VI, c. 2.] 



The Englifh merchants were fo much offended at being prohibited 

 from failing to Iceland, that they got a petition prefented in parliament, 

 praying the abolition of the privileges of the Eafterlings (or Hanfe 



* This law, befiJes die Jmpolicy of preventing of Glafgow, f/5. 115] fays, the next confidcrable 



ilic merchants from bringing home fuch goods as mercliaiit in (rlalgow was Archibald Lyon, who 



tlieir own judgement and intcrcft might direft, re- traded to Poland, France, and Holland, with great 



gulated the delivery of the filver by tlie fcale of fuccefs. The notions of dignity in Scotland, we 



the freight, that is, by weight or meafure, and may well prefume, were then at lead as ftrongly 



not by value. infefled with feudal pride, as they have been in 



f Gibfon dates the commencement of Elphin- later times, and are in fomc degree in the prefent 



(Ion's trade in the year 1420. But that feems too day. It was therefor a proof of great l\croifm in 



early, as he lived till the year 1486, being then Elphinflon and Lyon, both born of honourable 



indeed an aged man, as his fon, the founder of the families afterwards ennobled, that they fnrniountcd 



iMiiverfity of Aberdeen, who was born in 1437, the filly [jrejudicei of education, and dared to be 



was a bifhop fome years before his death. [Craw- iifeful to the community and tliemfclves. 

 furd^s Officers, p. ^'j.'^ Macure, the earlier hiftorian 



