[561] Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” vol. i. p. 17.
[562] A charter granting these privileges will be found at length in Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 135. It was confirmed by Henry IV. and Henry V.
[563] Rymer, “Fœdera,” v. p. 691.
[564] Ibid. v. p. 298.
[565] Act. ii. Edward I.
[566] Ayloffe’s Calendar, p. 335.
[567] The Act of Edward I. prohibiting the exportation of bullion, and relating to his new coinage, was ordered to be sent to all the chief ports in the kingdom. For the wages of the sailors in the fleets of Edward I., see [Appendix No. 5, pp. 632-4.]
[568] To this day the visitor to the quaint old town of Winchelsea may observe under houses, now cottages, extensive cellars—some with roofs of Gothic arches. The Ward-robe books of the 25th, 29th, and 32nd years of Edward I. (now in the British Museum) give ample details on all these subjects.
[569] Mr. Wright, in his excavations at Uriconium (Wroxeter), found abundant evidences of the use of coal. Roman candles have also been met with in some of the neighbouring mines. As early as A.D. 1253 there was a lane behind Newgate, in London, called Sea-coal Lane. Ayloffe’s Calend., p. 11. It appears also that coal was used in A.D. 1337 in the manufacture of iron anchors. See “Syllabus of Rymer’s Fœdera,” [Appendix No. 8, p. 648, s. a. 1337].
[570] Stow’s “Survey of London,” p. 925.