684 



« » 



A. p. 1468. 



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breadth, and fub fiance, the parliament enacled, that evei-y broad fet 

 cloth, properly finifhed for fale, fhould meafure 28 yards and 28 inches 

 by the fold in length, and 7 quarters in breadth within the lifts in all 

 parts, and fliould weigh at leafl 38 pounds ; and flrait fet cloths, duely 

 finifhed, fliould meafure half as much in length and breadth, and weigh 

 at leall 94- pounds. AW fet cloths were to be infpeded and fealed by 

 the king's aulneger with the feals of the fubfidy and aulnage. [Jets 

 8 Edzv.IV,c. I.] 



In confideration of ;iC3350CO due by the king to the company of the 

 flaplers at Calais, he aihgned to them for eight years the fublidies of the 

 port, and all his other revenues in Calais, for payment, they allowing 

 out of them the pay of the foldiers and maintenance of the works *. 

 [Cotton^s Abridgement, p. 68 1 .] 



An account was prefented to parliament of the money exchanged in 

 the Tower by the keeper of the king's exchange in three years, whereof 

 the following is an abftract. 



Years 

 ending 

 29'" Sept 



ember. 



1466 

 1467 

 1463 



.Old 

 nobles. 



I3;,S7 

 60,15 

 33,400 



Emption for 

 die king's 

 farm at \d 

 acli, 



574 9 7 

 200 13 7 



SILVER. 



Troye 

 pounds 

 weight, 



3,845 



Emption at 

 iT'/p'pound 

 weight, 



72 

 183 



Emption, 



1 

 19 



10; 646 11 



384 13 



whereof 



paid to 



the king, 



and remain- 

 ed to tiie 

 keeper. 



400 

 200 



246 



184 



>• 



[Cot toft's Alridgement^ p. 685.] 



July z^ — A treaty for commercial intercourfe with Bretagne for 

 thirty years was now fettled, almofl upon the lame terms as that with 

 the duke of Burgundy, except that the trade was allowed to be more 

 general and free ; wool, cloths, linens, wines, fruits, hides, provifions, 

 and alfo harnefs, armour, artillery, horfes and other animals, and all 

 f)ther merchandize whatever, were lawful. Plymouth, Dartmouth, Win- 

 chclfea within the chain and its little harbour, and Calais, were except- 

 ed from the general liberty granted to the merchants of Bretagne of 

 making fafl their veiTels in the harbours, and having hotels or inns in 

 the towns, of England ; the duke of Bretagne having an equal right to 

 except any of his towns from the fimilar liberty to be granted to the 

 Englifh merchants. [Fasdern, V. xi, />. 618.] 



September 8"" — The purchafeof the vaflal kingdom of Mann and the 

 Weftern iflands by Alexander III king of Scotland in the year 1266 has 

 been related. The flipulated annual payment of 1 00 marks, perhaps 

 as too trifling to merit attention on cither fide, liad been allowed to run 

 in arrear for twenty-fix years. In confequence of the advice of Charles, 

 the late king of France, a very amicable fettlement was now effected be- 



* This loan, aiid lliat of 1464, fbow that the f^xofioo for payment of a part of iiis fillci's por- 



nicrchants of the ftaplc were very rich (/^33,ooo tioii to the duke of Burgundy : and on many other 



being Hill a great fum) and that the king knew occafions King Edward reforted to them for pe- 



t.hey were. In the following year he borrowed euniary alTiftance. [<7i)//o;;, />^. 683, 692,. Sec] 



