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more exienfive wal], being the fecond wall that had been built round 

 that city. 



Notwithftanding the preparations made in the preceding year for a 

 confederate and pretended religious war againfl king Louis XII of 

 France, a treaty of peace was concluded between king Henry VIII and 

 him, for both their lives, comprehending alio an intercourfe of com- 

 merce ; whereby it was flipulated, 



' I) That all duties or burdens on commerce, in both countries, im- 

 pofed within the laft 52 years, fhall be abfolutely repealed, 



' II) And that all foreign merchants, and particularly the Venetians 

 and Florentines, fhould be at full liberty to fail to either kingdom, arm- 

 ed or unarmed, with their fhips and merchandize. 



' III) No letters of niarque or reprifal to be ilTued by either of the 

 contrading parties againft any but the principal delinquents, and their 

 effeds and abettors, and not even againft thofe until juftice has been 

 denied, after being formally demanded. 



IV) In another article of this treaty, the two kings engaged mutually 

 to afTift each other with land and fea forces ; the ailiilance by lea, on 

 either fide, being ftipulated to be 5000 armed men, with fhips fit for 

 war, cannon, gunpowder, ftones (for they had not as yet ftllen into the 

 vife of iron bullets), dans, provifions, arms, and other neceflaries for 

 war, fuitable to the number of men above i'pecified, at the expenfe of 

 the party demanding fuch afliftance. But here is no fpecitication of 

 the precife number, or of the burden of the fhips. 



• V) Louis obliged himfelf to confirm to the Englifli, trading at Bour- 

 deaux, all the privileges and immunities granted either by himfelf or 

 his predecefTors kings of France.' [Foedera, V. xiii,/>. 412.] 



The portion of Mary, fecond daughter of the late king Henry VII, 

 to be married to king Louis XII of France, was fixed at 400,000 gold 

 crowns ; of which ium it was agreed that one half fliould go towards 

 the lady's equipage, gold and filver plate, jewels, clothes, &c. and the 

 other half v.as to be deducted out of a million of crowns, which Louis, 

 by another treaty with Henry, of this fame year, llipulates to pay him 

 for deferting the confederacy ; although the plaufible pretence for this 

 ftipulation was exprefl^ed to be for fundry old claims of the crown of 

 England on that of France. {Foedera, V. xiii, pp. 428, 433.] 



In this year alfo, we fee the form of a manunaiflion granted by king 

 Henry VIII to two perfons, viz. ' Whereas, originally God created all 

 men free; but afterward the laws and cuftoms of nations fubjeded fome 

 tinder the yoke of fervitude. We think it pious and meritorious with 

 God, to make certain perfons abfolutely free from fervitude, who are 

 at prefent under villenage to us. Wherefore we do now accordingly 

 manumit and free from the yoke of fervitude, Henry Knight a tailor, 

 and John Erie a hufbaiidman, our natives (i. e. our flaves), as being 



