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that on that occafion the Englifli found more riches in Leith than they 

 could have eafily imagined. 



In that war the EngUfh took twenty-eight of the principal Hiips of Scot- 

 land, fraught with all kind of rich merchandize, as they returned from 

 France, Flanders, Denmark, and other countries, and they brought them 

 into the Englifh ports. {Drake's bift. An^lo-Scotica, p. 351.] So that it 

 fhould feem that Scotland at this time was not without fome confider- 

 able iliare of foreign commerce. 



As yet the prefent great fuburb of London eaftward along the north 

 bank of the Thames, lince named Wapping, had not (as far as appears) 

 any exiflence as a fuburb, or was not bviilt up into houfes ; for by an 

 a6l ("35 Hen. VIII, c. 9.] Wapping-marlTi, in the county of Middlefex. 

 is direded to be divided by certain perfons afligned. And Richard 

 Hill of London, mercer, (the aflignee of Cornelius Wanderdelf, who, at 

 his own charge, inned, inbanked, and i-ecovered the fame, being drown- 

 ed) was to have the one moiety thert^of to him and to his heirs ; it hav- 

 ing been before this time v/ithin the flux of the tide. Thole banks be- 

 ing in the year 1565 broken in feveral parts by inundations, were re- 

 paired ; but were again damaged in 1571, when, for the greater fe- 

 curity of the banks hereafter, they firfl began to ereft houfes thereon, 

 the memory of which is flill preferved in a fhreet there, called Wapping- 

 wall. 



In an ad of parliament [34, 35 Hen. VHI, c. 21.] relating to grants of 

 lands by the king, it is enadted, that for over-grants of lands, more than 

 was fpecified and intended by the king, the grantees fliall pay to the 

 king after the rate of twenty years purchafe. Yet this is by no means 

 a rule to judge of the value or purchafe of lands at that time, which 

 certainly was very much lower than this valuation, which mofl proba- 

 bly was intended as a punifliment and a caution to all grantees not to 

 conceal the quantum of the crown's grants. 



The ftreets of the town of Cambridge were direded to be paved with 

 ftone. [7,$ Hen. VIH, c. 1 6.] 



And in the fame year, a very good flatute (the firft of the kind) was 

 inade for preferving the woods of England, as well for the benefit of 

 houfe and fliip-timber as for firing. \^2,?> i^^"- i^Hl, c. 17.] Tiiis fratute 

 was afterwards made perpetual. [12 £/iz. c. 25.] 



By an ad of parliament of the fame year \c. 24.] we find that 200 

 acres of land (100 of meadow and 100 of pafture) at Maddingley in 

 Cambridgefhire, with the appurtenances, are thereby declared to be in 

 the whole of the yearly value of ten pounds, and lo letten to farm, to 

 the ufe and intent that the profits thereof fhould be tor the f .es and 

 wages of the knights (in parliament) for the county of Cambridge; and 

 this land therefor was called the fhire-manor ; and was now adually 

 let to John Hinde feijeant-at-law for that fum yearly, being at izd per 



