[183]. The Spaniards established a wool dépôt at Bruges: Kervyn de Lettenhove, i, p. 152.
[184]. R. O., S. P. Dom., Edw. VI, vol. xiii, No. 81.
[185]. Under Henry VIII the wool export decreased by 50 per cent. as estimated on the average number of sacks exported in the first five and last five years of the reign.
[186]. Add. MSS., 11716 (Letters and Papers, ii, No. 3521) contains a contrast between the treatment of merchants in France and in England, embodying many of the above details.
[187]. Various references in Letters and Papers, ix and x.
[188]. Letters and Papers, xvii, No. 555.
[189]. Ibid., xviii, part i, No. 33.
[190]. Letters and Papers, xviii, part i, No. 416.
[191]. Foedera, xiii. 520.
[192]. Letters and Papers, iv, part iii, No. 6686.