A. D. i486. 707 



And now a more formal truce of three years (not a peace) was conclud- 

 ed, whereby all grievous exadions, impofed upon commerce in the lafl 

 two-and-twenty years, were abolilhed in both kingdoms, except the local 

 duties of towns, &c. [Fasdera, V. xii, p. 281.] 



July ■^ — A truce of three years was alfo concluded between England 

 and Scotland, in which the feizure of perfons and merchandize (hip- 

 wrecked was more particularly guarded againfl than formerly, the pre- 

 fervation of the property being, however, now made to depend on the 

 lurvival of a human creature, and not on that of a cat, dog, or cock, 

 which, it may be believed, were never allowed to live to the prejudice 

 of depredators. The other articles were nearly the fame as in former 

 truces between the two kingdoms. \Foedera, V. xii, p. 285.] 



July 22'' — Henry was particularly defirous of cultivating the friend- 

 fhip of the duke of Bretagne, and therefor renewed the truce with him, 

 with nearly the fame conditions refpeding commerce, which were in 

 the former treaty of the year 1468 ; the towns of S'. Malo, Brefl, and 

 Tonque, being now excepted from the general liberty granted to the 

 Englifli of having hotels in the towns of Bretagne, as, on the other hand, 

 thofe towns in England, which the king fhould name by his letters, were 

 to be excepted from the fimilar liberty enjoyed by the Bretons in Eng- 

 land. [Foedera^ V. xii,/>. 303.] 



1487, Odober — A difpute between fome citizens of Cologne and fome 

 fubjeds of Scotland had been decided by the king of Scotland and his 

 council. The foreigners were diffatisfied, and obtained from the em- 

 peror a letter of marque againfl; the Scots, which was now fufpended 

 (probably upon the king's interpofition) till Eafter 1488. In the mean- 

 time the Scottifh parliament ordained, that a clergyman and two bur- 

 gefles fliould go, at the general expenfe of the burghs., to the emperor's 

 court with an authentic copy of the fentence, in order to fhow that juf- 

 tice had been done to the Gologners, and to obtain a revocation of the 

 letter of marque. \^Acis Jac. Ill, c. 126.] 



The reprefentatives of the burghs of Scotland, ading as a feparate 

 body, or committee, requeflied, and obtained, a ratification of the ads 

 for the qualifications of merchants, for regulating charter parties, the 

 meafure of falmon barrels, the profecution ot the herring fifliery in the 

 weft fea, &c. \cc. 127-131, 133-] 



They alfo ordained, that commiflaries (reprefentatives) from all the 

 burghs fhould affemble at Inverkiething on the 26''' of July every year, 

 in order to confider the iuterefl of merchandize and the burghs, and to 

 make regulations for their general welfare *. \^c. 1^2.] 



November — Kix;g Henry, in his deteflation of avarice, with the aflent 

 of the parliament, prohibited and annulled ' all dampnable bargayns 



* This is apparently tlie origin of the convention of the royal burghs of Scotland, which is flill kept 

 up. I do not hnd, when the convention removed from Inverkiething to Edinburgi. 



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