6y6 A. D. 1463. 



the iilands belonging to England, was prohibited, whenever wheat did 

 not exceed 6/'8, rye 4/ and barley ;^/, per quarter. \_c. 2.] 



The male and female artificers of London, and other cities, towns, 

 and villages, of England and Wales, having reprefented that they were 

 grievoiifly injured by the importation of foreign articles of quality infer- 

 ior to thofe made by them *, the parliament prohibited for a time to 

 be limited by the king's pleafure, the importation or fale of woollen 

 caps, woollen cloths, laces, corfes, ribands, fringes of lilk or thread, laces 

 of thread, filk twined, lilk embroidered, laces of gold, tires of filk or 

 gold, faddles, ftirrups, harnefs belonging to faddles, fpurs, bofles of 

 bridles, andirons, gridirons, locks, hammers, pinfons, fire-tongs, drip- 

 ping-pans, dice, tennis-balls, points, purfes, gloves, girdles, harnefs for 

 girdles of iron, latten, fleel, tin, or alkmine, articles made of tawed lea- 

 ther, tawed furs, bufcans (probably buflcins), fhoes, galoches or corks, 

 "Tcnives, daggers, wood-knives, bodkins, fheers for tailors, fciflbrs, raf- 

 ors, fheaths, playing cards f, pins, pattens, pack-needles, any painted 

 ware, forcers, cafkets, rings of copper or of latten gilt, chafing-difhes, 

 hanging candlefticks, chafing bells, facring bells, rings for curtains, 

 ladles, fcummers, counterfeit bafins, ewers, hats, brulhes, cards for 

 wool, and blanch iron wire, commonly called white wire. The manu- 

 factures of Ireland and Wales might be fold in England as freely as be- 

 fore ; and alfo goods taken from enemies, or found in wrecked veflels. 

 The tenants of the precinft of the chapel of S'. Martin le Grand in Lon- 

 don were exempted from the operation of this ad X- [^^s 3 Edw. IV, 

 c. 4] By it we are informed, what articles were then in requeft, and 

 Avhat manufadures were then eftabliflied, in England. 



By the king's patent, granted to the mayor and citizens of London, 

 thetronage (weighing) of wool was transferred from Wellminfter, where 

 Henry VI had eftablifhed fix wool-houfes, to Leadenhall in London §. 

 [Rot, pat. fee. 3 Edzv. 11"^, w. 17. — Stoiv's Survey, pp. 304, 843.] 



Hitherto all people bringing corn, fifli, fait, fuel, onions, &c. to Lon- 

 don by water, had been ordered to land them at Queenhithe : but the 

 trouble and liinderance occafioned by delays in taking up the draw- 

 bridge had induced many of them to rilk the penalty by unloading at 

 Billingfgate. It was now thought expedient to authorize what had 



* The application to parliament gives rcafon to tliem, by means of wooden blocks, the figures of 



fufpeft that the foreign goods were ofyu/mor qual- of faints with infcriptions. Some fnch, executtd 



ity ; and thence the home-r.iade goods rtquirtd fo early as the year 1423, may be regarded as the 



the protcfllon of a monopoly againll tlie foreign firll fpecimens of printing. [_Id^e ^entrale d'uiie 



manufacturer and the Englidi confumcr. Tlie co/kc/lon i!'i/i:impa, />/>. 2 }g-2^o.] 

 quantity ot foreign goods poured into the country J The fame exemption is repeated in all the ails 



aa foon as the prohibition expired (fee below in the containing reftiaints upon trade about this time, 



year 1+83) proves, that they were more accept- fo that S'. Martins tenants were the only free 



able to the confnmers. traders. Stow, in his Si^rvry, gives fomc account 



f Playing cards were invented in Germany be- of the privilcgts claimed by this college or chapel, 

 fore tht end of the fourteenth century. At firft § A pretty ample hillory of Leadtnliall is given 



iifcd only for amufement, they were afterwards by Stow in tnc account of Lime-ftrett ward in hill 



made fubfervicnt to fuperllition by (lamping on Survey of London. 



