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682 A. D. 1467. 



and thofe of a greater burthen the freight of a fack, to the chaplain of 

 the nation in the country failed to, and on their return home fhould 



pay the freight of a tun to the church of the port of delivery VefTels 



were prohibited from failing to any foreign country between the 28"' 

 of Odober and the 2" of February. — The merchants of Scotland were 

 now prohibited from failing to the Swyn, the Sluys, the Dam, or Bruges, 

 and were required to remove their property from thofe places before 

 the i'' of Auguft enfuing, and thenceforth to have no intercourfe with 

 them, l^i-ls yac. Ill, cc. 14-19.] The interruption of trade with 

 thefe towns was an infraction of the hundred-years treaty, owing to 

 fome caufe of difpleafure, which the hiftorians of the age have not in- 

 formed us of. 



July — In England alfo the attention of the parliament this year was 

 chiefly turned to trade. — Notwithftanding the act for enforcing uniform- 

 ity of fabric and quantity in the worfted-ftuff manufadures of Nor- 

 ^ wich and the adjacent country, pafled in the 2o'^ and repeated in the 

 9 23^, year of Henry VI, there were now frefti complaints of the delin- 

 quency of the manufadurers of thofe goods ; whereupon a new ad was 

 made, which was little more than a repetition of the former ones. \^Acls 

 7 Ldw. IV, c. I .] 



The clothiers in the hundreds of Lifton, Taviftock, and Rowburgh, 

 in Devon-fhire were permitted to mix flocks with their wool, they 

 having reprefented, that, on account of the grofliiefs and fl:ubbornnefs 

 of the wool in that diftrid, no cloth could be made without fuch a mix- 

 ture, [c. 2.] 



The exportation of woollen yarn and unfuUed cloth, whereby the 

 ^ king lofl; the cuft;oms payable upon finiflied cloths, and the people a part 

 of their employment, was prohibited, [c. 3.] 



Augufl: 29'" — King James allowed the merchants of Scotland to fail 



to Middleburg, but not to eftablifli their trade in that city as a flaple, 



as he intended to fend commiflioners to negotiate privileges for them in 



whatever place fhould be found moft advantageous for a flaple. — They 



, were alfo at liberty to fail to Rochelle, Bourdeaux, and the other ports 



■> of France. [A£ts Jac. Ill, cc. 20, 21.] 



Odober — The parliament of Scotland, after having lowered their 

 money of account by making a nominal rife upon their own and all 

 foreign coins current in the kingdom, or, in their own language, making 

 their money equivalent to the currency in Flanders, next obliged all 

 debtors to make payment in the full value originally contraded for. In 

 a few months the parliament obferved, that that change anfwered no 

 good purpofe, that the pennyworth rofe with the penny, and that land- 

 lords were defrauded of the fourth or fifth part of their rents * ; and 



• However obvious thcfe confcqucriccs miglit days. V>\.\\. iuch ignonnct oi the nature and caufes 

 bt to the eye of rcafon, none of the nations of of the tucahh of nat'iom in tliofe ages need not fur- 

 Eurcpc fecm to have liad any idea of ihtiii in thofe prife us, when, cvrn in the prefent cnhghtcned age, 



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