[163]. Cotton MSS., Galba B xii, f. 28.
[164]. See Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. xvi (1902), pp. 19–67. In an article by W. E. Lingelbach on the organization of the Merchant Adventurers the suggestion is put forward that the Old Hanze and the New Hanze were two separate grades of merchants with differing privileges. Certain not very precise indications point to such an arrangement, but, on the other hand, there is no hint of any such thing in the Charter of Incorporation of 1505 or in any other document of the same type.
[165]. In the previous autumn the Council, on receiving a loan of £30,000 from the Company, had promised to suppress disorders (R. O., S. P. Dom., Edw. VI, vol. xv, No. 13).
[166]. A. P. C., iv. 279, 280.
[167]. Foreign Cal., 1547–53, No. 655.
[168]. Dict. Nat. Biog.
[169]. John Wheeler, however, in his Treatise of Commerce (1601), states that the Emperor refrained from establishing the Inquisition at Antwerp in 1550, for fear it should drive the English out of the city.
[170]. Domestic Cal., 1547–80, p. 87.
[171]. Cal. Cecil MSS., i. 44.
[172]. A. P. C., v. 236.