668 A. D. 1450. 



rowed infinite fums from the merchants of the ftaple and other merch 

 ants *. [Rot. pal. prim. 28 Hen. VI, m. 2.] 



About this time, the Azores, or Weftern iflands, faid to have been 

 previoufly difcovered by fome Flemifli navigators, were occupied by the 

 Portuguefe under the aufpices of the enhghtened prince, Don Henry f. 



1451, Augufl: 14'" — The truce between the two Britifli kingdoms was 

 renewed. The promife not to phmder wrecked vefTels, and to permit 

 veflels in diftrefs to purchafc provifions, was again mutually repeated ; 

 and each fovereign engaged, that the enemies of the other, bringing 

 prizes into his ports, fliould be proliibited from difpofing of their plun- 

 der without the confent of the oi-iginal owners. It was agreed that vef- 

 fels, fhowing by cockets and other fufficient documents that they be- 

 longed to either nation, fhould not be compelled to lower, or take in, 

 their fails, or be any way impeded in their navigation, by any veflels of 

 the other nation. {Fadera, V. xi, /. 293.] Truces, nearly in the fame 

 terms, were repeatedly renewed during the reigns of Henry VI and 

 James 11, which both terminated in the year 1460. 



1452, January 20'" — In a diet, which had been held at Utrecht by 

 commiflioners from King Henry and reprefentatives of the grand maf- 

 ter of Pruflia and the Hanfe towns, the matters in difpute were adjufted 

 in a manner fatisfadory to the king and the grand mailer. But the ci- 

 tizens of Lubeck refufed to abide by the determination of the diet, re- 

 tained a number of Englifh fubjeds in prifon, and even prefcribed to 

 the king rules for the condud of his fubjeds. The other Hanfe towns 

 appear, in complaifance to Lubeck, to have alfo negleded to accept, or 

 ratify, the ads of the diet. The magiftrates of Cologne, however, ap- 

 prehending the difpleafure of King Henry, had written to him requeft- 

 ing the continuance of his favour, and the merchants of the Teutonic 

 gildhall in London importuned him to the fame effed. The king now 

 wrote, in anfwer to the magiftrates, that nothing fhould he wanting on 

 his fide to the faithful prefervation of the antient friendfhip between 

 England and Cologne, and he defired to know, whether the Hanfe towns 

 were to take part with Lubeck in the hoftile condud of that city to- 

 wards England, or to comply with the decrees of the diet. He alfo 

 wrote in the fame manner to the grand mafter, in anfwer to his letters 

 fignifying his approbation of the proceedings of the diet. [Tadcra, V. xi, 

 pp. 504, 305.] 



* Wc afterwards find other loans from the merch- 1460 Martin of Niirenbcrg, under the aufpices of 



ants of the (laple ; for example; lc,ooo marks in tlie duchefs of Burgundy (who thereby proved 



the 31" year of King Henry VI, and £20,000 in hcrfdf a worthy filter of the ilhiftrioua Don Heii- 



his 33" year. [CoZ/cn'j Jhr'ulgemenl, pp. O53, ry of Portugal) occupied Fayal, the principal 



Cjy.J ifland, for the truth of vvhitli he appeals to the re- 



f The difcovery of thofe iflands is varloufly dat- cords of Nurcnberg. Sec alfo Forjier's Difiovrtiet 



td in 1449, I45S> 1460, and 1481. Mr. Otto in the North, p. 2^1 En«l. tratifl. 

 ^^Amer. phihf. tmnj. K ii, p. zGjJ fays, thai 111 



