A. D, 1440. 657 



the grand mailer of Pruflla, dating, that in former times no duties were 

 exaded for veflels or cargoes in PrulTia, but of late the merchants of 

 England had been often compelled to pay a duty upon the value of their 

 veflels and cargoes in Dantzik, and been opprefl'ed with other arbitrary 

 exadions, detention of their veflTels, &c. Some Englifli merchants hav- 

 ing complained of being wrongoufly imprifoned and plundered in the 

 towns of Stetin and Coilelyn, the king wrote alfo to the burgomafters, 

 proconfuls, Sec. of the Hanfe towns, demanding redrefs. IFxdera, V. 



^>PP- 753-755-] 



February 8'" — A more produdtive method of making fait was now in- 

 troduced in England : and, for the advancement of that manufadure, 

 John of Schiedam, a native of Zeland, was encouraged to bring over 

 from Holland and Zeland a number of people, not exceeding fixty, 

 who were taken under the king's protedion. \Fcedera, V. x, />. 761.] 



February 26'" — After the reftridion of the foreign trade of Norway, 

 &c. to the one port of Bergen by the king of Denmark, we find feveral 

 licences granted by King Henry to the two bilhops of Iceland for fend- 

 ing Englifh veflels to that ifland on various pretences *, which feem to 

 have been fchemes of coUufion between the bifliops and the owners of 

 the veflels for carrying on illicit trade, though that was oftenfibly guard- 

 ed againfl: in the licences. However, one now granted to the bifliop of 

 Skalholt authorizes him to load two veflels with 200 quarters of corn, 

 and with other provifions, and cloth, for Iceland, which the king was 

 told, pofl'efled neither cloth, wine, ale, corn, nor fait, and to reload thera 

 with the produce of the ifland. [Foedera, V. x, pp. 645, 659, 682, 711, 

 762.] 



June 1 7'" — .The manufadures and commerce of the Netherlands be- 

 ing almofl ruined by the war with England, the duchefs of Burgundy 

 wrote to King Henry, to whom flie was nearly related f , earneftly en- 

 treating that he would renew the friendly intercourfe, which had fo 

 long fubfiflied between the two countries. Commiflioners were accord- 

 ingly appointed on both fides, and a truce of three years was concluded 

 with the people of Brabant, Flanders, and Mechlin, whereby they were 

 again admitted to commercial intercourfe with all the king's fubjeds on 

 both fides of the fea. The hoftilities committed before the declaration 

 of war were confidered as piracies, and commiflioners were appointed to 

 afcertain the compenfations due on both fides, who found the Flemings 

 indebted to the Englifli on that account 32,000 riders, each of the value 

 of four fliillings of Flemifti money :j: ; and for that fum the four mem- 

 bers of Flanders gave their obligations. \Fcedera, V. ^,pp. 730, 761, 791.] 



* One was, that the new-appointed bilhop of f This aftive pacific princefs was giand-daugh. 



Hola, an Englifhman, was afraid to go fo far, and ter of John duke of Lancaller and filler of Dj.i 



•therefor employed the mailer of an EngUfli veflel Henry, the prince of dil'coverers. 

 to infpeft his biflioprick as deputy bifliop. Both J Tlie Flemifh rider was worth j/j. of EngUlh 



bifliops were conneded with John Wefton a ftoc!> money, as appeals from an aft of the pariament of 



filhmonger in London. Scotlana in the year 1451. 



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