66 A. D. 1526. 



be paid, annulling the new imports laid on within twenty years pall 011 

 eithei- fide, and particularly thofe on wines and fait. 



II) That notwithftanding the late prohibitions of the kings of France, 

 the woolien cloths made in Catalonia, Rouflillon, Sardinia, and the other 

 territories of the crown of Arragon, and aUb all other cloths and mer- 

 chandize belonging to the fubjeds of that crown, might be carried by 

 land or water through the dominions of France, in order to avoid the 

 many dangers of a long navigation, paying no other than the ancient 

 impofts eflabliflied twenty years before, but not to be fold in France. 

 On the other hand, the cloths of France might be freely fold in the em- 

 peror's dominions. [Fcedera, V. xiv, pp. 309, 322.] 



This is one of many proofs that the Spaniards manufactured their 

 excellent wool into cloth before the national induflry was poifoned by 

 the influx of gold and filver from America. 



It appears from Hakluyt \V. ii, p. 3.] That now, and for fome time 

 before, fome merchants of Briftol traded, by means of the fhips of St, 

 Lucar in Spain, tathe Canary iflands, fending thither cloth, foap, &c.. 

 and returning with dying drugs, fugar, and kid fkins ; and' that they 

 alfo fent thither their fudors from Spain. 



Hakluyt obferves, that the Spaniards firfl planted vines and fugar- 

 canes in the Canaries, as the Portuguefc alfo did in Madeira ; but it is 

 to be prefumed that they had not as yet got wine enough for exporta- 

 tion at thofe iflands. He adds, that at Palma, one of the Canaries, he 

 was well informed they had twelve fugar-houfes, called ingenios (as the 

 Spaniards ftill call them), in which they made great quantities of good 

 fugar. 



1527.. In a treaty between King Henry and Francis I. king of 



France, the latter obliges hirafelf to pay Henry a perpetual annuicy of 

 50,000 crowns, and alfo as much fait annually as {hould amount to 

 15,000 crowns more, to be delivered at Bruage in Saintoigne, free of' 

 all charges or exactions, on board the veflels fent by King Henry to re- 

 ceive it. {Foedero^ V. xiv, p. 218.] 



To the performance of this treaty, agreeable to the ufage of thofe 

 times, many p;reat lords and the principal cities of both countries were 

 bound. The Englifh cities mentioned are, London, York, Canterbury, 

 Norwich, Coventry, Winchefter, Exeter, Salifbury, Lincoln, Welles, 

 Hereford, Chichefter, and Chefler. 



Francis had great need of Henry's friendfhip againft the ambitious 

 fchemes of the Emperor Charles V. He was therefore extremely Uber- 

 al of his promifes to Henry, more efpecially as the latter was at this 

 time making large monthly payments for fupporting the war in Italy 

 againft the emperor. 



One Simon Fifh of Gray's-Inn, in his treatife called a fupplication 

 of the beggars to the king, reprefents the number of lepers and poor 



