240 A. D. 1603. 



By a flatute of this year [c. 25] when wheat is not above Lr : 6 : 8 

 per quarter, rye, peafe, and beans, 15/, and barley and malt 14/ per 

 quarter, they may be exported in Englifli fliips, paying cuftom, :z/per 

 quarter for wheat, and 1/4 for the other kinds. 



1 504. — An aflembly of Hanfeatic deputies now appointed a folemn 

 embafTy to foreign nations, for the renewal of their mercantile privi- 

 leges, in the name of the cities of Lubeck, Dantzick, Cologne, Ham- 

 burgh, and Bremen. They firft addrefled King James, who, becaufe 

 they brought no letters from the emperor, foon difmiiled th2m with 

 the following anfwer of his privy council. 



That as their privileges were heretofore adjudged to be forfeited, and 

 thereupon refumed by the king's predeceflbrs, in refped of the breach 

 of conditions on their part, fo it can no way ftand with the good of 

 the ftate to reflore them again to the faid privileges. And with this an- 

 fwer they departed nothing contented. [T/juam WJl. L. cxxxi. — Win- 

 tvood's Memoirs, V. ii.] 



The Hanfeatics went thence to the court of France, where they met 

 with abundance of good words, but nothing elfe ; and then they went 

 to the court of Spain, where, probably for the emperor's fake, they had 

 fome fuccefs. 



King James I having determined to make peace with all nations, a 

 treaty was fet on foot at London between his minifters and thofe of 

 King Philip III of Spain, and of the Archduke Albert, and the Arch- 

 duchefs Ifabella Clara Eugenia, for the Netherlands. What was then 

 concluded relating to commerce is in fubftance, viz. 



I) All fhips of war, and letters of marque and reprifals, to be called 

 in on both fides. 



II) King James's garrifons in the cautionary towns {hall not fupply 

 the Hollanders with any military ftores, nor any other afliftance what- 

 ever, during their revolt from Spain. 



III) There fhall be a free and uninterrupted commerce between the 

 dominions of both parties, as it was before the late wars, and as agree- 

 able to former treaties of commerce ; with free accefs to each others 

 ports, fo, however, that no number exceeding fix (hips of war fhall en- 

 ter into any port on either fide without previous leave. 



IV) The merchandize of England, Scotland, and Ireland, may be 

 freely imported into the Spanifli dominions, without being obliged to 

 pay the new impofi; of 30 per cent, and Ihall pay none but the old du- 

 ties. 



V) With refped to the merchandize which King James's fubjedls 

 ihall buy in Spain, they fhall likewife be exempted fironi the faid new 

 import of 30 per cent, provided they bring away the faid merchandize 

 in their own fhipping, and unlade them either in the Britilh dominions 

 or in the Spanifti Netherlands ; but they fliall not carry them any where 



