History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 1 (of 4)

by W. S. Lindsay

[579] In A.D. 1353; Rymer’s Fœd. v. p. 763.

[580] Rymer’s Fœd. vi. p. 659. The date of this famous treaty appears to be Aug. 4, 1370. Macpherson i. p. 577.

[581] Stat. 37, Edw. III. cc. 5, 6.

[582] Stat. 42, Edw. III. c. 8.

[583] Stat. 1, 2, Rich. II. cc. 1, 2.

[584] Walsingham, pp. 227-553.

[585] Rymer’s Fœd., vol. vii. p. 233, and Macpherson i. p. 590. In A.D. 1383, a large Genoese ship bound to Flanders was driven by stress of weather into Sandwich. Walsingham, p. 296.

[586] Stat. 1-5, Rich. II. c. 2.

[587] Ibid. c. 3.

[588] Among other persons, the Pope succeeded in carrying from the town of Bristol, in 1382, a prodigious quantity of goods (the list is given in full in Rymer’s Fœd. v. pp. 356-7, 577-90) without paying any duty.