[13]. Spanish Cal. i, pp. 366, 367, 374.

[14]. Venetian Cal. i, Preface, lxviii.

[15]. Venetian Cal. i, p. 278.

[16]. For detailed figures as to customs payments see Schanz, Englische Handelspolitik gegen Ende des Mittelalters, ii. 37–156.

[17]. Harl. MSS., 597, f. 211.

[18]. Thomas Gresham, writing to Northumberland in 1553, speaks of sending a copy of their privileges dated 1296, but the document does not now exist (Cal. S. P. Dom. 1547–80, p. 51).

[19]. Cotton MSS., Tib. D viii, f. 37. Printed by Schanz.

[20]. Harl. MSS., 597, f. 211.

[21]. Ancient histories of the Merchant Adventurers: Harl. MSS., 597, ff. 211–15, a general sketch written in the reign of Elizabeth; Stowe MSS., 303, ff. 99–107, written in the time of Charles II, of very slight value; A Treatise of Commerce (printed), by John Wheeler, 1601, much fuller and better informed than the other two.

[22]. Some additions were made by Mary.