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fail, without giving fecurity not to injure any of the fubjefts of the 

 other contracfting party, and to prevent them from felUng their booty in 

 the ports of either party, or receiving fuppUes of provilions. [Fa'dera, 

 V. \\\i, p. 476.1 



Henry \'ill having complained to the fenate of Genoa againfl: the 

 new duty laid on the merchandize of his i'ubjeds in their illand of Scio, 

 they, in the year 151 7, informed him, that the heavy annual tribute 

 which they were obliged to pay to the grand fignior for the ifland, 

 obliged them to impole the duty which his fubjeds complained of: 

 Wherefore they humbly hoped his Majefly would not any more liften 

 to the complaints of his fubjects there, lince they were no higher taxed 

 than the other inhabitants ; adding, that by that grievous tribute to the 

 Turks, they contraded a debt of 120,000 ducats, which they could no 

 othe'-wife difcharge but by thofe new duties. [Foedera, V. xiii, pp. 493, 



589] 



A new treaty of peace and intercourfe of commerce was concluded 



between Henry VIII and Ferdinand the CathoUc, for himfelf as king 

 of Arragon, and alio as adminiftrator of the perfon and dominions of 

 his daughter Joanna, queen of Caflile, &c. which is much the fame 

 with former treaties with Spain ; with this addition, that in cafe the 

 fhips of either party fhould be wrecked on the coads of the other party, 

 the magiflrates fhould fecure and fequeftrate the goods, &c. of fuch 

 wreck for the proprietors, if within twenty months they Ihould make 

 out their claim, and perifhable merchandize fhould be fold for the be- 

 nefit of the owners : But if no claim were made within twenty months, 

 then the laws of the country, where fuch wreck fhould happen, fhould 

 take place. \Foedera, V. xiii,/». 520.] 



1516. — In this year king Ferdinand the Catholic died at Madrid, 

 which place (fays Guicciardin, in his Hiflory of the wars in Italy) was 

 then but an obfcure village. Spain, before the union of its ieveral 

 kingdoms, had as many different capitals as kingdoms ; but Madrid be- 

 ing the ufual refidence of Ferdinand's fuccellbrs (though flill an open 

 town without walls) is become a very large city. 



Hakluyt \yoya:ies, V. \\\, p. \<^%?^ mentions a voyage made in this year 

 by fir Thomas Port vice-admiral of England, and Sebaftian Cabot, , 

 from England to the coafls of Brafil, and other parts of South Ameri- 

 ca, by order of king Henry VIII ; yet he gives us no particulars of it. 



In many different periods we find the Hanfeatic hiftorians almofl 

 conftantly complaining (and particularly the Lubeckers) of the vio- 

 lences committed by the Danes: For inflance, in the year 1507, the 

 king of Denmarkr-juft after having concluded a peace with the Hanfe 

 towns, feized on nine Lubeck merchant fhips, richly laden, from Ri- 

 ga. On the other hand, the Danifh hiftorians paint the Hanfe tow.is,. 

 and efpecially Lubeck, in very odious colotirs, and as being ever the 



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