74 A. D. 15^. 



lords of fellion, but more properly the fenators of the college of 

 juftice. 



Kmg Henry having entered into a ftrider alliance with the king of 

 France againft the Emperor, the maritime force of each party was ap- 

 pointed to coniift of a fquadron of fhips, (not mentioning their num- 

 l;)er- tonnage, or force), having 1500 foldiers in it, with artillery, &c. ; 

 which l'quadron,when demanded by either parry, was to cruife between 

 L'ilmnt and the Downs for fix months in the year, for the defence of 

 both coafts of England and France from the attempts of the emperor. 

 If the emperor fliould at atiy time feize on the Englifh merchants and 

 their efFeds in the Netherlands, Francis obliged himfelf to feize on the 

 effcds of the Netherlanders in France for fatisfadion. On the other fide, 

 Henry ftipulated to do the like in England in behalf of the French 

 merchants, in cafe their effeds fhould be feized in the Netherlands. 



In an ad [2;?. Hen. VIII, c. 8.] for mending the havens of Plymouth, 

 Dartmouth, and Teingmouth in Devonfliire, and ot Falmouth and Fowey 

 in Cornwall, it is afi^erted that thofe ports were in former times 

 efteemed the principal and moft commodious havens of England, imtil 

 they were choked up by the gravel, fand, rubble, &c. of certain works 

 of tin in thofe counties, called fiream works ; and that (hips of 800 

 tons burden have formerly come eafily into them at low water, where- 

 by a great multitude of fliips, as well foreign as EngUfh, have been pre- 

 ferved and faved ; whereas now a (hip of j 00 tons could fcarcely enter 

 them at half flood. 



1 z^-^^. — Beef, pork, mutton, and veal, were direded by ad of parharaent 

 r24 Hen. VIII, c. 3.] to be fold by v;cight ; no perfon to take above one 

 halfpenny a pound for beef or pork, nor above three farthings for mut- 

 ton and veal. The number of butchers then in London and* its fub- 

 urbs was reckoned to be one hundred and twenty, each of whom kill- 

 ed nine oxen weekly, which, in forty-fix weeks, (none being then killed 

 in Lent) amounts to 33,120 oxen yearly. [Stozv's Survey of London, 

 p. 356, f^/. 1 61 8.] Lord Herbert obferves that this law was afterward 

 iuiily repealed, in confideration that unfeafonable years did not permit 

 any certain rule for the prices of fleflt meat, which were afterwards fix- 

 ed occafionally by a committee of the privy-council. 



Ey another ftatute [c. i r.] the ftreet-way between Charing-crofs and 

 Strand-crofs, (/. e. near vs'bere Somerfet-houie now is fituated) in the 

 fuburbs of London, was direded to, be fufficiently paved and maintain- 

 ed at the charge of the owners of the lands adjoining. This fnows that 

 the Strand v.'as not as yet built into a continued flreet. 



Another ftatute of this year {c. 4.] direded, that for every fixty acres 

 of land fit for tillage, one rood fhould be fown with flax-feed or hemp- 

 feed. And by the 5 th of vXieen EUzabeth, U. 5] that queen had power. 



