692 A. D. 1475. 



find convenient. — After difcuffing the claims for pillages of fhips and 

 cargoes and other outrages committed on both fides, the fum of ^15,000 

 ilerling was tound due, as a balance of compenfation, from the Englifh 

 to the Handirds, befides the above-mentioned houfes : but in confidera- 

 tion of the protcdion againft fuits for by-paft grievances aflured to thenx 

 by the king, they agreed to reduce the fum to ;^r 0,000, and to receive 

 the payment in the cuftoms faUing due on their fublequent imports and 

 exports*. — If any city fliould be difmembered from the afiociation of 

 the Hanfe, the king, upon receiving due imimation, fhould put the 

 merchants of that city upon a footing with other foreigners, till he 

 fhould be duely certified that they were re-admitted into the aflx)ciation. 

 — The city of London iliould be bound by the prefent treaty in tranf- 

 adlions with the Hanfe merchants, whofe antient privileges ftiould not 

 be impaired by any later grants m^ade to the city;, and the Hanfe 

 merchants fhould ftill have the keeping of Bifhopfgate, as formerly. — 

 The king fhould oblige the public weighers and meafurers to do juftice 

 between the buyers and fellers ; and he fhould prevent vexatious delays- 

 at the cufiom-houfe, and the repeated opening of the packages contain- 

 ing federatures and other pretious furs and merchandize, (after being 

 fealed, as having paid the cuftoms) at Canterbury, Rochefter, Gravef- 

 end, and elfewhere, and fhould abolifh theexadlion of prince-money and 



fome other unlawful charges Wrecked vefl'els fliould be preferved for 



their owners on the ufual conditions. — The king fhould make dihgent 

 proviiion againft defeats in the length or breadth of cloths, or in the 



quality of the wool The merchants of the Hanfe, after giving fecurity 



to abide the law in fuch cafes as their property ufed to be arrell:ed for, 

 fhould have perfed liberty of felling their goods as they pleafed, and of 

 retailing Rhenifh wine, according to antient ufuage : neither fhould the 

 mayor of London claim a portion of their fait, as he ufed to do. [Fced- 

 ero,V.\i,pp. 544, 645, 739, 765, 779, 780, ']g2-— Cotton s Jlbridgcvicnt, 

 p. 692.] 



June 6''' — The commercial and political dignity of the family of Me- 

 dici was now fupported by Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandibn of 

 Gofmo. King Edward, who was perpetually in w.ant of money, had 

 now borrowed ;^5, 000 from him and his brother Giuliano, together 

 with Thomas Portunary, and others, filled merchants of Florence, pro- 

 bably agents of the Medici, for which, as ufual, he gave an affignment 



cmplification of an aft of llie 1 2"' parliameiil of • This mode of payment was even introduced 



Edv.aid IV, cDiiii riling the mcrcliants of tlie in the king's ^private tranfailions. In 14S2 lie 



Hanfe in JL.onilon, [/fa/, frnt. [rim. ly Edw. IV- bought jewels from fome merchants of Genoa, 



mm. 16, 17] which ii> pi-rhap; what Stow alludes wlio were to receive iheir payment in the fame 



to: and the fum, mentioned by Kim as rent, was way. {Rymer'i Unpublijheil record:, Edzv. IF, Vol. 



apparently a conipofition for tho pious payments ill, no. 102.] He died foon after, and it depcnd- 



to be made out of the tcnantnts, for which the ed on the pleafiue of his fuccelFors, whether the 



magiftratts of Loudon were trulUcs. Gcnocfe wtrc paid or not. 



