A. D. 1488; 711 



February 18'" — The firft parliament of Henry VII had granted him 

 the duties of tannage and poundage with the extra duties payable by 

 foreigners, as ufual in the preceding reigns. The merchants of Venice, 

 Genoa, Florence, and Luca, now obtained from him an abatement for 

 the fpace of three years ; and the whole duties of every kind payable 

 by them were fixed at ^T) : 6 : 8 for every fack of wool, and if^ for 

 every twenty -fhil lings worth of tin. [Fadera,V. xii, p. 335.] 



Odober — The firft parHament of James IV king of Scotland, in a fet 

 of new regulations for money, flated the obligation upon the merchants 

 exporting Scottifh commodities to import bullion as follows, viz. for 

 each ferplaith of wool, each laft of falmon, or each four hundred cloth*, 

 four ounces of fine filver ; for each laft of herrings (now apparently an 

 export of fome confequence) two ounces ; and for other goods paying 

 cuftom, in pi-oportion. \_Ads Jac. IV, e. 10.] 



They reftrided the arrival of veflels, whether Scottilh or foreign, to 

 the free burghs, whereof Dunbarton, Irwin, Wigton, Kirkcudbright, 

 and Renfrew, (all on the weft fide of the country) are mentioned, appar- 

 ently as the moft confiderable. Foreigners were, prohibited from buy- 

 ing fifti, till they were faked and barreled, and from having any deal- 

 ings at the remote ifland of Lewis, or any place whatever except at the 

 free burghs, [r. 11.] 



The navy of Scotland at this time confifted of two vefTels, the Flow- 

 er and the Yellow carvel. They were adapted chiefly for war, being 

 well provided with guns, crofs-bows, lime-pots, fire-balls, two-handed 

 fwords, and alfo with good feamen under the command of Sir Andrew 

 Wood, a brave and experienced officer : but I cannot venture to affirm, 

 whether they belonged to the public, or were Wood's own private pro- 

 perty. [Buchanani Hj/i. L. xiii, cc. i, 3, 6. — Yitfcottie, pp. 145, 155, ed. 

 1778.] During the reign of James IV feveral warlike fliips were added 

 to the Scottifti navy, one of them particularly remarkable, as being 

 longer than any other veflel that has been built from the time of Ptole- 

 my Philopator to the prefent day. 



1 489, January — The parliament of England undertook to regulate 

 the prices of feveral articles, which, they conceived, were exorbitant. 

 Drapers and tailors were not allowed to take for the fineft broad cloth 

 of fcarlet or other in-grain colours above 16/' per yard, or for cloths of 

 the beft quality of plain colours, or ruftTets, above i i/f . The hatters 

 and cap-makers were accufed of charging ■^f or 3/4 for hats which coft 

 them only 1/4, and from 3/" to 5/ for cap«r which coft them only 1/4. 

 They were now ordered to fell the beft hats at 1/8, the beft caps at 2yB, 

 and thofe of inferior quality as they could agree. \_Ai5ts 4 Hen. VII, cc. 

 8,9.] 



* The aft does not exprefs, whether this was a ence of prices in the prefent day is owing to the 



kindof cloth fo called, or 400 pieces, or 400 yards, great abundance of cocliineal now brought from 



f The in-grain colours were thus about 46 per America, 



cent higher than the others. The fmaller differ- » 



