A, D, 1475. %i 



thofe from whom they had been taken, nor the captains of (hips * or 

 others be Hable to arreft for any by-paft quarrels. — This general am- 

 nefty (hould be confirmed by ihe king and parliament f of England ; 

 and all obligations entered into by the Hanfe merchants in England for 

 compenfation of damages iliould be cancelled. — The merchants of P^ng- 

 land might trade to Prullia and other places of the Hanfe as freely as in 

 former times, and fhould be charged with no cuftoms or exactions but 

 what had been a hundred years eftabliihed ; and the merchants of the 

 Hanfe {hould enjoy all the privileges in England granted by any of the 

 kings to their predecefFors. — The king and parliament of England, and 

 the Hanfe confederacy, by letters under the feal of the city of Lubeck, 

 fhould certify, that no pretence of forfeiture of privileges on account of 

 the late hoftilities fliould be advanced on either fide. — In civil or crim- 

 inal caufes, wherein the Hanfe merchants might be concerned in Eng- 

 land, the king fliould appoint two or more judges, who, without the form- 

 alities of law, fliould do fpeedy juftice between the parties, the merch- 

 ants and mariners of the Hanfe being entirely exempted from the jurif- 

 didion of the admiralty and other courts ; and fimilar provifion fliould 

 be made for the eafy and fpeedy difpenfation of juflice in the Hanfe 

 countries. — As part of the recompenfe, found due by the Englifli to 

 the Hanfards, the king fhould convey to them the abfolute property of 

 the court-yard called the Staelhoef or Steelyard % with the buildings ad- 

 hering to it, extending to x.\\t 'Teutonic gildhall in London, and alio a 

 court-yard called the Staelhoef O): Steelyard in Boflon, and a proper houfe 

 for their accommodation, near the water, in Lynne §, they becoming 

 bound to bear all the burthens for pious purpofes, to which the Stael- 

 hoef was made liable by antient foundation, or thebequefts of the faith- 

 ful II, and having full power to pull down and rebuild, as they might 



* ' Capitanei navi'um.' — This is the firft time I their tenements in Windgoofe lane in London, 



find the commanders of vefiels called cafilain.t in and for their place in Lynne, appear in i?o/. Aij;. . 



any Englilh record. For an example of it in a Ij Ed'w IV, print, m. 6, andylf. m. 12. 

 Barcelona record of the year 1331 fee above p. || The Steelyard (Staelhoef) and the Teutonic 



507. gildhall have been fuppofed by Hakhiyt and otlierj 



\ The precaution of demanding the fanftion to be different names of the fame building ; and 



of parliament, which occurs feveral times in this thence the appellation of merchants of the Steelyard 



treaty, fliows that foreigners did not now think has been ufed as fynonymous with merchants of the 



the king's patent of itfelf a fufficicnt fecurity. Teutonic gildhall and merchants of the Hanfe, but 



+ Kilian, in his Etymologicum Tcutonscie fingiia, improperly till after this time, as appears from this 



explains 5'tof/-/6o/" to be the place where dyed cloths treaty. — Stow [_Sur-vcy, p. 433, ed. i6iS"]favs, 



are fealed with thc^acZ/oc/ (feal of lead). Quere, that a great houfe called the Sleet-hoife, near the 



if the Englifli word iteelyard be not rather a cor- Teutonic gildhall, (though he feems to confound 



rupt tranilation of the iame name tlian any way them a few paragraphs higher) was given to the 



connefted with fteel ? — Kilian finiflie^ his work in city as a fund for deeds of piety, and that it was 



1598. confirmed to the merchants of the Teutonic gild- 



§ In the tranfaftions of the year 141 2 we find hall by the king and parliament in the ij"" vear of 



the merchants of the Hanfe fettled at IJofton, and Edward IV for a rent of £-jo : 3 : 4, payable to 



apparently at Lynne. Quere, if the rich merchants the city. But no parliament of that year appears 



plundered at Bollon in 1288, whofe opulence was in the ilatute books, nor in Cotton's Abridgement 



undoubtedly much exaggerated, were of the of the records of parliament, nor in Stow's own 



Hanfe ?— The grants to the Hanfe merchants for Annals. There was, indeed, in that year an ex- 



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e.mpliucation 



