^. A. D. 1446. 663 



from the proper officers. — The Enghfti might make fad their veflels 

 in the ports of Brabant, Flanders, &c. in the manner.pradifed by the 

 French, Hollanders, Zelanders, and Scots; and tlic Flemings, Sic. might 

 do the fame in the Englifli ports. — The veffels of either party were pro- 

 liibited from carrying the property of the enemies of the other. — In 

 cafe of the vefTels of either country being wrecked on the coafts of the 

 other, the property fhould be delivered to the owners on paying reafon- 

 able expenfes The road along the coaft from Calais fliould be renew- 

 ed ; and the merchants were, as in former treaties, forbidden to take 

 dogs with them, or to catch the rabbits on the Downs — The Englifh 

 merchants fhould have inns, or hotels, for themfelves in the cities of 

 Brabant, Flanders, and Mechlin, and enjoy all the privileges they en- 

 joyed in former times * Any infradion of the treaty by individuals 



fhould be compenfated by the fovereign, but (hould not produce a rup- 

 ture of the truce. — Laftly, it was agreed, that the four members of Flan- 

 ders fliould bind themfelves to obferve this treaty : and they according- 

 ly did fo in a few days after. [Fa'dera, V. xi, //. 140-146.] 



King Henry granted the mayor of Briftol the privilege of being ex- - 

 empted from the jurifdidion of his admirals and other minifters. [Rot, ■ 

 pat. fee. 24 Hen. VI, m. 23.] 



1447 — It is impoffible to reconcile the various ceras affigned by the 

 writers of the Netherlands to the improved method of curing herrings, 

 invented by William Beukels, or Beukelens, of Biervliet in Flanders, 

 who, by the mofl probable account, died this year. From a variety of 

 notices, difperfed through the preceding part of this work, it is evident 

 that they are miftaken, who reprefent him as the firft who ever cured 

 thofe fifli. The truth feems to be, that he -introduced fome improve- 

 ment in the manner of treating the fifh, or perhaps of preparing the 

 fait, concerning which the information is very obfcuref, which, being . 

 adopted by his countrymen, procured a fuperior reputation to their fifh 



* The return of the Englifh at this time to enjoy ftarch upon it, is the following. — • Ctux de Byer» 

 their former privileges in Antwerp, the chief city of ' vlyet, [no mention of Beukelens] ifle de Flan- 

 Brabant, is related by AVheeler \_Treatife nf com- ' dres, qui premierement fnventerent (pour le 

 merce, p. 1 6] as their firfl arrival in that city, • mieux garder etant fallc) de I'egorger, et lui ofter 

 which he ignorantly fays, conlilled of thatched ' les machoires, qui Ic failoient autrement bien toll 

 huts, contained only four poor and ignorant merch- ' corrompre, ce qu'en langue du pays fe difoit la- 

 ants, and had only fix fmall vcffels for the river, ' ;5f?;, c'ell adire dcmacheler.' \jC'nrontque de Hol- 

 but none fit for going to fea. What he and others lande, life, par Petit, p. 184. — See alfo AlarcianlU 

 fay of the order of the golden fleece, being inftii FlanJria, L. i. — Olai Alagni H'lfl.fept. L. sx, c, 22. 

 tuted by the duke of Burgundy in honour of the — Schaock de hareiigis, § 36. — Dc IFilt's Inlere/l of 

 Englifh wool and cloth, is unfupported, or rather Holland, pp. 49, JO, ling!, tranjl.'] Beukelens 

 is contradifted, by his diploma of the original ere- feems one of thofe charaifters, who, by fome accid- 

 ation of the knights, dated 27'" November 1431, ental circumftances, have obtained higher places 

 which is recited verbatim by Meyer in his Amia'les in the temple of Fame, than their real merits cu- 

 Flandrire^ f. 274. The duke appeai-s to have had titled them to, Sucli a circumftancc was the vifit 

 the fleece of Gideon, the judge of Ilrael, in his eye, of the emperor Charles V and his fiiler to the tomb 

 when chufmg his device. \_Marchanlii Flandria, of Beukelens, where they offered up their prayers 

 f. 285.] for his foul. Goguet moreover fays, that tlic em- 



f The mofl; diftinft account of the procefs that pjror erected a ftatue to hlo). 

 i have been able to find, after beftpwing much re- 4 



