[533] For example, Thomas Payne, whose barge, the “John of Southampton,” traded with Zealand; or the goldsmith, William Nycoll, who was also a merchant, and sent his ship the “Marye of Hampton” to the Bay of Biscay under the charge of a cousin, his factor and purser. (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3. p. 78, 84, 88.)
[534] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, pp. 70-73. Davies, 97-8. In 1399 Richard the Second granted to the Emperor for the war against the Turks a sum of £2,000, which was sent through a Genoese merchant and charged on the customs at Southampton. Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 16. Bekynton, i. lx. note. In 1401 a second £2,000 was paid.
[535] Davies, 61, 256.
[536] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, p. 66-69.
[537] Ibid. 77.
[538] Davies, 255.
[539] Ibid. 471.
[540] Ibid. 255-6.
[541] In 1411 the burgesses made a great wharf with a crane on it at the water-gate to increase merchandise and prevent the evading of customs. Davies, 112. For strangers brought their wines “very contemptuously” and landed them “within this realm where they think good themselves.” (H.M.C. xi. 3, 50-52.)
[542] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 11, 87.