654 -^' ^- I43S. 



March 21" — An agent of the king of Portugal was licenced to fliip 

 fixty facks of Cotfwold \too1, without paying any cujiom, for Florence, in 

 order to procure fluffs of gold and filk for the ufe of that king. [Fad- 

 era, V. \,p. 684.] 



March 31" — Soon after the acceflion of James 11, king of Scotland, 

 the truce between the Britifh kingdoms was prolonged till the i'' of May 

 1447. In addition to the flipulations againfl feizing vefTels driven in- 

 to port, or hindering fliipwrecked men from returning home, it was 

 now agreed, that, if any veffel belonging to either kingdom were car- 

 ried by an enemy into a port of the other kingdom, no fale of the veffel 

 or cargo fhould be permitted without the confent of the original own- 

 ers ; — that no veffel driven into any port fhould be liable to arrefl for 

 any debt of the king, or of any other perfon *, but all creditors fhould 

 have fafe-conduds in order to fue for and recover their debts with law- 

 ful damages and intereft ; — that in cafes of Ihipwreck the property fhould 

 be preferved, and delivered to the owners ; — that goods, landed for the 

 purpofe of repairing a fhip, might be reloaded in the fame or a differ- 

 ent veffel, without paying any cuftoms, except for fuch as might be 

 fold ; — that no wool or wool-fells fliould be carried from the one king- 

 dom to the other, either by land or by water; — velTels of either king- 

 dom, putting into the ports of the other in want of provifions, might 

 fell Ibme goods for that purpofe, without being liable to pay cuftoms 

 for the reft of the cargo. — In cafes of depredation not only the princip- 

 als, but alfo the receivers and encouragers, and even the communities 

 of the towns in which the plundered goods were received, were made 

 liable for compenfation to the fufferers, who might fue for redrefs be- 

 fore the confervators of the truce or the wardens of the marches. — No 

 acts of individuals fhould be allowed to produce an infradion of this 

 truce. \_FiEdera, V. x, p. 688.] 



November 21" — We have already feen feveral unqueftionable proofs 

 of the wool of England being fuperior to that of Spain. A further, 

 and a moft authentic, evidence of its fuperiority appears in a body of 

 laws, drawn up at this time by the municipal magiftrates of Barcelona, 

 for the exprefs purpofe of regulating ibe manufa£lure of cloths mcide of fine 

 EngliJJj wool (' lanes fines de Anglatetrd) and other fine wools. The firfl 

 fedion (exadly like the ordinance in the patent given to the weavei's of 

 London by King Henry II) prohibits the mixture of any other wool 

 with the Englifh. The other fedions, to the number of thirty in all, 

 are entirely filled with precautions for preferving the purity of the wool 

 in fpinning and through the other ftages of the manufodure, and againft 

 debafing the fabric, rules for the infpedioii of the finiflied goods and 

 for afcertaining the quality by known authorized marks. [Capfnany, 

 Mem. hift. de Barcelona, V. ii, Col. dipt. p. 427.] 



• Tin's article fccms intcmlcd to provide a remedy againft tlie fuperabundant zeal for compenfation 

 lately manifeftcd by King James I. 



