686 A. D. 1470. 



The cargoes confifted of iron, wine, wool (440 facks), raifins, liquor- 

 ice, fpicery, incenfe, oi-anges, marfac, and 4 facks of cheefe intend- 

 ed for prefents. The mofl valuable veffel with wool, iron, 8cc. was 

 bound for Flanders, and all the reft for England. [^F^dera, V. y^-'i, pp. 

 671, 672.] We do not fee, what was decided by the court. But the 

 merchants of the northern ports of Spain declined trading to England, 

 as appears by an invitation held out by Edward IV in the year 1471, 

 afluring them, that they had nothing to fear in his kingdom. 



December 29"' — King Henry VI, being reftored for a few months, 

 gave the merchants of Cologne, who, with other merchants of Germany, 

 pofTefTed the Teutonic gildhall in London, a grant fimilar to that, given 

 in the year 1463 to the merchants of the Hanfe in general, by his an- 

 tagonift Edward IV : but this was to the merchants of Cologne only *, 

 and was to laft for five years, inftead of two and a half, the term grant- 

 ed by Edward. [^Foedera, V. xi,^. 678.] 



During the Ihort fecond reign of King Henry, the earl of Warwick, 

 who then governed the king and the kingdom, fent an army over to 

 Calais to act againft the duke of Burgundy and the exiled king Edward 



IV. But the Englifh merchants of the ftaple, whofe greateft fale for 

 woo] was to the clothiers of the duke's provinces of Flanders and Hol- 

 land, knowing the ruinous confequences to their trade to be exped:ed 

 from a war in the Netherlands, found means to divert the earl from his 

 purpofe. \Comines, L. iii, c. 6.] 



1 47 1, February 16''' — King Henry entered into a treaty, or truce, 

 with the king of France, which, being merely calculated for his own 

 perfonal fafety, an objeft which left him no leifure to attend to any 

 other confideration, contains very little relating to commerce. As an 

 article of courfe, the merchants and all other fubjeds of both kings were 

 to have freedom of going into either kingdom on the bufinefs of merch- 

 andize, fiOiing, or any other occafion. [Foedera, V. \i, p. 683.] 



February ^a** — He alfo granted the Genoefe an exemption from the 

 additional duties laid upon foreign merchants by an ad: paffed by him- 

 felf as well as by another of the third year of King Edward. [Fadera, 



V. xi, p. 696.] But a few weeks terminated his life and reign, and their 

 privileges. 



Auguft — The parliament of Scotland thought it expedient, for the 

 benefit of the kingdom, and in confideration of the great riches which 

 might be acquired from other countries, that certain lords fpiritual and 

 temporal, and burghs, fliould build large ftjips, buflcs, and pink-boats, 

 and furnifii them with nets and other apparatus proper for fifliing f. 

 iJias Jac. Ill, c. 60.] 



• Cologne courted the friendfliip of England contain, as fuppofing it already generally known. 



in the year 1452, when Lubeck was holtile, and It is from a fubleqiicnt aft (c. 133) that we learn, 



*the other Hanfe towns were not friendly. • ■ that the filhery was intended to be on the well 



•J- The very brief afta of the Seottidi parliament coa(l, and for catching and curing herrings and 



fonietimes fupprcfs a part of what they ought to other filh. 



