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

by W. S. Lindsay

[589] Rymer’s Fœd., vol. vii. p. 369.

[590] Stat. 1-6, Rich. II. c. 11.

[591] 7 Rich. II. c. 9.

[592] 7 Rich. II. c. 11.

[593] Ibid. c. 14.

[594] Stat. 12, Rich. II. cc. 3-9, A.D. 1388. These rigid rules seem to have arisen from a reaction against the concessions extorted from the feeble king by the insurrections of 1380 (Wat Tyler) and 1381.

[595] Stat. 1, Rich. II. c. 10.

[596] Stat. 1-6, Rich. II. c. 10.

[597] Stat. 2, Rich. II. cc. 7, 9.

[598] 14 Rich. II. c. 1.