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was brought yerly into reame abowt 200000 L. in gold and silver, and 

 the reame never had lossis nother of shipps nor of merchandises upon 

 the see , nor by lendyng of merchandisez to straungers. And than be- 

 fore Londoners adventurid into Flaunders, whan all havyn townes was 

 occupied with straungers, than hadd gret nomber of comen peple welthy 

 levyng by ther portage cravage^) and cariages of merchandisez in all 

 havyn townes by resort of straungers, wher they usid and ostid^), alwey 

 spent ther money in the reame. In London that tyme was no merchantes 

 inhabited nor kept no howsis but the Esterlynges. All merchants of 

 the south partes came with ther galies caricks or shipps to London to 

 discarge by a certayn tyme and bye ther clothes to charge ageyn and de- 

 part. Before Londoners caried English clothes into Flaunders and made 

 martes in the Loo contreys , merchantes of the south partes hadd no 

 occasion nor cause to occupie into Flaunders and in the Loo contreys. 

 Whan all the marte was holden in Almayn and toward Venys and other 

 staple townes in thos partes , caried ther merchandise to the martes in 

 Almayn by lande. So that than all the merchantes of the south partes 

 hadd no occasion nother to inhabite and lye in England, but very few, 

 that than hadd licence to seil and retaile vitaile wynes and spices. In 

 example that tyme of that act of licence the first yere of Hichard the II ^) 

 ther was no craft or name of grocers in London. The name of oon 

 John Donote or such other name that tyme a straunger, that sold spices 

 in London, was beried in the westende of the chirche in the Frere Au- 

 gustyn^) in London by his name upon the stone to this day to see callid 



1) cravage, wenn von to crave, Angebot; aus den Wörterbüchern jedoch nicht 

 nachweisbar. 



2) used and hosted, verkehrten und einkehrten. 



3) Juni 22. 1377— Juni 21. 1378. Das Statut 1 Rio. II. c. 1. 2 gestattete frem- 

 den Handelsleuten in England Wolle, Tuch, Metall und die anderen Hauptartikel des 

 Landes frei ein- und zu verkaufen, vgl. Macpherson Annais of Commerce I, 587. 



4) Die Kirche der Austin Friars in Broad Street Ward, City, wurde nach Un- 

 terdrückung der Klöster 1550 von Edward VI. der protestantischen Gemeinde der 

 Holländer übergeben, die sie heute noch besitzen. 



