Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," vi, 717, 737, 740, vii, 114, 115.
"Item the vth day of September [1556], was browte thorrow Cheppesyde teyd in ropes xxiijti tayd together as herreytkes, and soo unto the Lowlers tower."—Grey Friars Chron., p. 98.
"At this time [Aug., 1554] there was so many Spanyerdes in London that a man shoulde have mett in the stretes for one Inglisheman above iiij Spanyerdes, to the great discomfort of the Inglishe nation. The halles taken up for Spanyerdes."—Chron. Q. Jane and Q. Mary, p. 81.
-Id., ibid.
Repertory 13, pt. i, fo. 205b.
By an order in council, dated Greenwich, 13 March, 1555, the merchants of the Steelyard were thenceforth to be allowed to buy cloth in warehouses adjoining the Steelyard, without hindrance from the mayor. The mayor was ordered to give up cloth that had been seized as foreign bought and sold at Blackwell Hall. He was, moreover, not to demand quotam salis of the merchants, who were to be allowed to import into the city fish, corn and other provisions free of import.—Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 384b; Letter Book S, fo. 76.
Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 399b, 404, 406; Letter Book S, fos. 70, 93b.
Repertory 13, pt. ii, fo. 508b.
Wheeler's "Treatise of Commerce" (ed. 1601), p. 100.
Repertory 13, pt. ii, fos. 507b, 520b, 540.