lo A. D. 1496. 



XV) The Engllfli fliall freely bring bullion of gold and of filver 

 through the Netherlands from other countries, in order to carry the 

 fame into England, provided they bring certificates from the proper 

 officers of thole other countries, of the quantity of buUion fo bought 

 or otherwife lawfully acquired. 



XVI) None but the public and anciently known and received weights 

 fhall be ufed in either country. 



XVII) For confervators of this peace and intercourfe of commerce, 

 there were appointed by king Henry VII, on the part of England, 

 fundry lords therein named, and likewife the mayors and aldermen of 

 London, York, Briftol, Winchefter, Canterbury, Rochefter, South- 

 ampton, Sandwich (Zandwic), Dover, Lynn, Dartmouth, Plymouth, 

 Hull, Winchelfea, Bofton, Yarmouth, and Berwick ; who alfo bound 

 themfelves to the archduke Philip, under the obligation of all their 

 goods, prefent and future, to endeavour to the utmoft of their power, 

 that their fovereign king Henry VII fliould faithfully keep it inviolable 

 in all its parts : And on the part of the archduke there were likewife 

 bound feveral lords of his countries, and alfo the burgomaftersof Gaunt, 

 Bruges, Ypres, Dtmkirk, Newport, Antwerp, Bergen-op-zoom, Doort,, 

 Delft, Leyden, Amfterdam, Middelburg, Zirikzee, Terveer, Mechlin, 

 and Briel, to fee the faid peace and intercourfe of commerce faithfully 

 kept. 



Signed at London, 24th Feb. 1495-6; ratified April 1476. 



Wheretipon (fays Lord St. Albans, in his hijlory of king Henry VlT), 

 the Englifii merchants returned to their manfion at Antwerp, where 

 they were received with proceffion and joy. 



The reader, who knows the hiftories of thofe times, will, we appre- 

 hend, plainly perceive the reafons for the Netherlanders filling this 

 treaty the intercurfus magnus ; as it is, indeed, a very diftind and ample 

 one for the prevention of all depredations and wrongs on either fide, as 

 well as for a free and undifturbed fiftiery and commerce. 



We need not here remark, that the ancient way of cautionary con- 

 fervators, both of nobility and cities, for the keeping of fuch treaties, 

 is long fince laid afide between princes and ftates, as not anfwering any 

 valuable end : Yet, in treating with the Hanfe towns, and other popular 

 governments, fuch confervators might have poffibly added fome force 

 to their treaties. For this very treaty is declared to be made not only 

 between ihe fovereigns of both countries, but alfo between the vafi"als, 

 cities, and fubjeds ; and that thofe alone who fhould do any injury fhould 

 be puniihed, and none others ; the peace, neverthelefs, remaining in 

 full force. And this treaty was not only figned by the plenipotentiaries 

 of both princes, but was likewife figned and fealed by the burgomafters 

 of the cities of the Netherlands above mentioned ; all which is thereby 

 declared to be for the greater fecurity of amity and commerce. 



