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lifh voyages to the Levant were as yet very rare ; nor is this one un- 

 queflionably authenticated*. 



1459 — '^^^ merchants of the ftaple, probably finding the ad of par- 

 liament of the year 1449 not fufficient to guard their monopoly at Ca- 

 lais againft the licences, which had been fo prejudicial to their trade, ob- 

 tained from King Henry a promife, that he would grant no more of 

 them. {Rot. pal. prim. 37 Hen. VI, m. 17.] 



1460, February 13'" In a treaty with the Genoefe it was agreed, 



that they Ihould have free admiflion in every part of the king's domin- 

 ions, and leave to export all lawful goods, they having none of the king's 



enemies in their fervice They fhould give no afliftance to the king's 



enemies ^They fhould not carry in their veffels any property of the 



king's enemies ; and, if they had any fuch onboard, they fhould fur- 

 render it to the commanders of his fhips, who would pay them the fti- 

 pulated freight For the fake of form it was agreed, that all thele ad- 

 vantages fhould be reciprocal ; and it was added, that the mifcondud of 

 an individual fhould not break the treaty. {Fader a, V. xi, p. 441.] 



February — Jerom Lynch, goldfmith of London, was appointed maf- 

 ter of the mints of Dublin and Trim in Ireland f , and ordered to coin 

 copper money, which was apparently the firfl of the kind in the Brit- 

 ifh iflands fince the days of the Roman dominion J. {Rot. pat. 39 Hen. 

 Vl^m. 7. — Warai Hibernia, p. 137, ed. 1654.] 



May 9'" It feems that Caen in Normandy was the mofl: convenient 



place known, from which flones proper for the reparation of Weflmin- 

 fler abbay could be got ; and they were imported in a veffel belonging 

 to that foreign port. [Fadera, V. \i., p. /^S^-^ 



1451 — The earliefl notice, I believe, of the manufadure of beer in 

 England, is found in a patent appointing John Devenifh and others to 

 be fupervifors of all the beer-brewers in England, with a fee of half a 

 filver penny for every barrel of beer. {Rot. pat. tert. i Edw. IV, m. 

 16.] 



King Edward granted to the mayor and citizens of London the pack- 

 age of all woollen cloths and fkins within the liberties of the city. {Rot. 

 pat. tert. I Edw. IV, m. 16.] 



That the woollen manufadure of York-fhire was now fomewhat con- 

 fiderable, may be inferred from a grant of the ulnage of woollen cloths 

 in York, Hull, and throughout the fhire, to Lord Montague. {Rot. pat. 

 quart. 1 Edw. IV, m. i.] 



• Fabyan, who relates this (lory of Sturmyn ia, confukring iiow many hands they mud have 

 with fome hcfitptlon, obfcrves, that, of all the na- gone thro>i!;h, was exceedingly improbable, or ra- 

 tions who traded to England, the Gcnoele were thcr iinpolTible. 



the lead concerned in the fpice trade in his time f Drogheda (' Drodath'), Waterfoid, Cork, 



(he was fliirref of London in 1493), ai'l '^at it I^imcrlck, and fome other places in Ireland alfo h:,d 



was therefor improbable that they Ihould have at- mints in the year 1474, and probably now alio. 



tacked Suirmyn from apprchtnfion of fpiccs being \_Rot. [>al. fer. 14 Edw. IV, in. 22.] 



naturalized by him in England. He might have J Tlie Saxon (1 yeas Were made of brafs. ^Nicies, 



;.dded, that the importation of live plants from Iiid- Di/frt. fp'ijl. p. 182.] 4 



