690 A. D. 1475. 



and the men made prifoners, by the people of the country *. In the 

 year 1474 the parhament of Scotland had ordered that redrefs fhould be 

 demanded from the king of England ; and it was now finally fettled by 

 a payment of 500 marks fterling made at Edinburgh by Lye, King Ed- 

 ward's agent, to the bilhop of Aberdeen, as a compofition to be divided 

 among the merchants concerned. \_Acls Jac. Ill, c. 62. — Fcedera, V. xi, 

 pp. 789, 820, 850. — Lejl. H'ljh Scot. pp. 303, 304.] It is not improbable 

 that the interefl of the Scottilh merchants was in fome degree facrificed 

 to a marriage treaty now going on between the two kings. 



February 28* — However defirable the management of the trade of 

 the country by foreign merchants may have been in the early ages, 

 when, if there had not been a trade of that kind, there would have been 

 none, the Englifh merchants of this age, who owned many good vefTels, 

 could not contentedly behold the merchants of the Hanfe invefled with 

 privileges equal, in fome cafes fuperior, to thofe enjoyed by themfelves, 

 which, together with their extenfive connections upon the continent, 

 their mutual fupport, and other lefs jiiftifiable means, enabled them 

 generally to command the market. The reciprocal ill will, arifing from 

 fuch a (late of affairs, had during many years paft produced frequent 

 difputes and many captures of vefTels and other ads of open hoftility on 

 both fides. Neither was the policy of King Edward, who, in his feveral 

 renewals of the privileges of the Hanfe merchants, gave them very fhort 

 terms, fometimes only one year f, calculated to give fatisfadion, either 

 to them, or to his own fubjedls. 



The citizens of Lubeck, who had formerly dillinguiflied themfelves 

 beyond their confederates by a fpirit of hoftility to England, had in 

 April 1473 fent deputies to a general aflembly of the reprefentatives of 

 the Hanfe towns held at Bruges, with inftrudions to ratify the articles 

 agreed upon with King Edward's commiflioners. After feveral adjourn- 

 ments, three commiflioners from the king, with the reprefentatives of 

 Lubeck, and two or three from each of the cities of Bremen, Hamburgh, 

 Dortmund, Munfter, Dantzik, Daventer, Campen, and Bruges, the fe- 

 cretary of the merchants of the Hanfe in London, and the fecretary of 

 thofe in Bergen in Norway, met at Utrecht in order to fettle the terms 

 of a permanent amicable intercourfe, and now concluded a treaty, in. 

 fubftance as follows All hoftilities fhould ceafe, and a free inter- 

 courfe by land and water fli<jukl be reftored All fuits for compenf- 



ation on either fide fliould be dropt, and all injuries be buried in ob- 

 livion : no claims fhould be made upon vefTels or other property by 



• The people of Northumberland and Durham f Some ofUic grants are in tlie Patent rolls of 

 mud have been much addidicd to phindering vef- Edward IV, tert. I, m. l8 ; />/■;'(«. 9, ;«. 12 ; prinu 

 ftls : we find a coirplaint of the fame kind brought 12, ;«. 6 ; fee. 14, m. 16. 

 againft Lord JLumley and his valhils of Hartltpi;ol 

 by the citizcRs of Lubeck. [Fuv/ivv;, V. xii,/. 38.J 



