[599] 14 Rich. II. c. 2.
[600] 14 Rich. II. cc. 4, 5.
[601] Fœdera, vol. viii. p. 96. It would seem that Waghen did not, on this occasion, gain his object, as his letters of marque were renewed in 1412 and 1414. Fœdera, v. p. 733.
[602] Fœdera, vol. viii. p. 318.
[603] It is, perhaps, worth remarking that, through the whole of this period, the name of every vessel employed is carefully recorded on the MSS., these names being almost as various as those at present existing.
[604] Knyghton col. 27-35.
[605] Sir H. Nicolas, from the various chronicles, &c., of the time, has well traced the course of this French plundering expedition. (Hist. Roy. Navy, ii. p. 260-264.) Mercer was ultimately crushed, not by the “Royal Navy,” but by the courage and power of a London citizen, John Philpott, who was created twice Lord Mayor in 1377 and 1378. Walsingham, p. 213.
[606] Fœd., vol. vii. p. 220.
[607] Rot. Parl. iii. 63.
[608] Rot. Parl. ii. 42, iii. 46, quoted by Nicolas, ii. pp. 274-5.