Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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And afterwarde by a Writte vnder the Kings priuie Seale there was a like
commandement giuen vnto the Collectors of the custome aforesayde in the
portes vnderwritten.
That is to say:
In the port of the Towne of:
Weymouth.
Southhampton.
Saint Botulphs towne, now called Boston.
Kingtone vpon Hull.
Newcastle.
Iernemouth magna, or Yermouth.
Lenne.
Gypwick or Ipswich.
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Carta Henrici quarti Anno [Marginal note: 1404] quinto regni sui concessa
mercatoribus Anglia in partibus Prussia, Dacia, Norwegia, Swethia, &
Germania, de gubernatore inter ipsos ibidem constituendo.
Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglia & Francia & Dominus Hibernia omnibus, ad
quos prasentes litera peruenerint, salutem Sciatis quod cum, vt accepimus,
ob defectum boni & sani regiminis & gubernationis, diuersa damna,
dissensiones, grauamina, & angustia inter mercatores Regni nostri Anglia in
partibus Prucia, Dacia, Noruegia, Hansa, & Suethia commorantes sapius ante
hac tempora mota fuissent & perpetrata, ac maiora, exinde, quod absit,
futuris temporibus verisimiliter euenire formidantur, nisi pro meliori
gubernatione inter eosdem mercatores mutuo habenda manus nostras adiutrices
apponamus: Nos damnis & periculis in hac parte imminentibus pracauere, &
eosdem Mercatores & alios de dicto regno nostro ad partes pradictas
venturos iuste & fideliter regi & pertractari intime desiderantes, volumus
& tenore prasentium concedimus eisdem mercatoribus, quod ipsi quoties &
quando eis placuerit in quodam loco competenti & honesto, vbi sibi
placuerit, se congregare & vnire, & certas personas sufficientes & idoneas
in gubernatores suos in eisdem partibus inter se ad eorum libitum eligere &
obtinere valeant libere & impune: Dantes vlterius & concedentes huiusmodi
gubernatoribus per pradictos Mercatores sic eligendis, quantum in nobis
est, potestatem & authoritatem speciales, omnes & singulos mercatores
Anglicos ad partes pradictas de catero venientes & declinantes per se vel
sufficientes loca sua tenentes regendi & gubernandi, ac eis & eorum
cuilibet in suis causis & querelis quibuscunque inter eos in partibus
pradictis motis vel mouendis plenam & celerem iusticiam faciendi &
quascunque quastiones contentiones, discordias, & debatas inter ipsos
mercatores Anglicos partium pradictarum motas sue mouendas reformandi,
reformationemque petendi, redigendi, sedandi, & pacificandi, & quascunque
transgressiones, damna, mesprisiones, excessus, violencias, & iniurias
mercatoribus partium pradictarum per pradictos mercatores Anglicos factas
seu faciendas redigendi, reparandi, restaurandi, & emendandi, consimilesque
restitutiones, reparationes, restaurationes & emandationes de ipsis
mercatoribus partium pradictarum seu deputatis suis requirendi, petendi, &
recipiendi:
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