[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.