[93]. Ibid., No. 90.
[94]. Letters and Papers, xvii, No. 440.
[95]. Letters and Papers, iii, No. 2483.
[96]. Cotton MSS., Galba B x, ff. 246, 251.
[97]. Acts of the Privy Council, iv. 279, 280. This affair, obviously relating to the Merchant Adventurers, is referred to in the preface as concerning the Steelyard owing to a mistaken interpretation of the word ‘Hanze’, here used in its generic sense of a corporation or union of merchants.
[98]. Venetian Cal. vi, p. 1045.
[99]. Letters and Papers, iv, No. 1962.
[100]. Cal. Dom. S. P., Addenda, 1547–65, p. 420.
[101]. Venetian Cal. iii, Nos. 440, 441, 608, 877.
[102]. Venetian Cal. iv, No. 751.