666 A. D. 1449. 



countries, as we learn by two letters of King Henry, addrefled to the 

 grand mafler of Pruflia and the magiflrates of Dantzik, recommending 

 to their good offices two perfons defcribed by the king as fadors of his 

 beloved and honourable merchant, William Canyngs. [^Fcedera, V. xi, 

 pp. 226, 227.] 



April i" — Thepropofed marriage of James II, king of Scotland, with 

 Mary, the daughter of the duke of Gelder, and niece of the duke of 

 Burgundy, with whom, as the more powerful prince, the treaty was ne- 

 gotiated, and alfo, the confideration of the friendly commercial inter- 

 courfe maintained between the Scots and the people of Brabant, Flan- 

 ders, Holland, Zeland, and other territories, all now fubjed to the duke 

 of Burgundy, from the mofl remote ages, produced a treaty of perpetu- 

 al alliance, wherein each prince promifed to compel! aggreflbrs upon the 

 fubjedls of the other, whether by land or fea, to make compenfation to 

 the party injured. [MS. Bib. Hart. 4637, V. \n,ff. 5 b, 11 a.] 



July 17"" — The Engliih merchants and feamen, in defiance of the or- 

 ders of the king of Denmark, frequently reforted to the coafts of Ice- 

 land, Halgaland, and Finmark, in confequence of which fome of them 

 had beenfeized about the year 1447. and were ftill detained asprifoners. 

 The ambaffadors of the kings of England and Denmark, having met at 

 Copenhagen *, now agreed that all injuries on both fides fliould be re- 

 drefled, that the fubjeds of both kings fhould have mutual freedom of 

 navigation, and particularly that the Englifh merchants fliould enjoy 

 their antient liberties and privileges, and pay the antient cuftoms. But 

 they were exprefsly debarred from failing to Iceland, Halgaland, and 

 Finmark, on any pretence whatever, without having a fpecial licence 

 from the king of Denmark ; and it was declared, that the feizure and 

 punifliment of contumacious interlopers fliould not be confidered as a 

 breach of the treaty. In a few days after, the king of Denmark more- 

 over granted the Englifli, trading to or from Pruflia or any part of his 

 own dominions, the privilege of traveling or iailing through his territo- 

 tories, either in Englifli or German veflels. \_F(xdera^ V. xi, pp. 264, 



273-] 



December 2" — John Taverner, a mariner of Kingfton upon Hull, by 



the help of God and fome of the king's fubjeds, had built a flbip as 

 large as a great carrack, or even larger, which he called the Grace Dieu 

 (Grace of God). The king direded that flie fliould be called the Car- 

 rack Grace Dieu ; and he granted Taverner the more folid advantage 

 of taking onboard his carrack wool, tin, lamb-flcins, wool-fells, paflx^larges 

 and other hides raw or tanned, and any other merchandize, the property 



• Beitiiis [/<tr. Germ. L. iii, /. 139] fays, Copenhagen appears by this treaty to Iiave been 



that this city was put on a fooling with tlic other the royal rcfidence, and to li.' vt had fevcral churches, 



towns of U( nmark in refped to municipal privi- in the chaptcr-houfc of one of which, called the 



leges fo late as the year 1443. His information is grcaler church, the BmbalTadors met. 

 fometimes defedive ; and tliis date fccms too late. * 



