^{page 200 note 1} 9 Ed. III. st. i. preamble, and c. I.

^{page 200 note 2} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 137.

^{page 200 note 3} 18 Ed. III. st. ii. c. 3; also Rolls of Parliament, ii. 286.

^{page 200 note 4} 4 Ed. III. c. 8.

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^{page 201 note 2} Ashley, W. J., Woollen Industry, 40Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 1} Fuller, , Church History, ii. 285Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 2} Compare 27 Ed. III. c. 4, where the grievances of foreigners importing cloth are redressed.

^{page 202 note 3} Statutes, 11 Ed. III. cc. 1–5.

^{page 202 note 4} Mill, , Political Economy, v. x. § 1Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 5} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 28, 409. Observe the early date of the first reference to the Worsted trade (1328).

^{page 202 note 6} Ibid. ii. 252.

^{page 202 note 7} In the reign of Henry VII. the custom on exported wool was financially unimportant.— Hall, , Customs, ii. 139Google Scholar.

^{page 203 note 1} Noorthouck, , History of London, p. 72Google Scholar.

^{page 203 note 2} Longmans, , Edward III. i. 170Google Scholar.

^{page 204 note 1} 10 Ed. III. st. iii. De cibariis utendis.

^{page 204 note 2} 37 Ed. III. cc. 8–15.

^{page 205 note 1} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 251, No. 32.

^{page 205 note 2} First admitted to Edward II. (Stubbs, ii. 380, note 4).

^{page 206 note 1} On the constitutional character of these payments see Hall, H., Customs, i 167Google Scholar.

^{page 206 note 2} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 171, No. 58.

^{page 206 note 3} Ibid. ii. 166, No. 11.

^{page 206 note 4} Warnkönig, , Hist, de la Flandre, i. 302Google Scholar.

^{page 207 note 1} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 137. Compare previous proposals for an international currency, ibid. ii. 105. Some attempt was also made to come to an agreement about a common silver coinage, Ruding, i.215; cf. 18 Ed. III. st. ii. c. 6.

^{page 208 note 1} Rymer, , Fœdera, iii. 492Google Scholar, §§ 31, 32.

^{page 208 note 2} Ibid. iii. 487, 489, §§ 1–5, 12.

^{page 209 note 1} Especially the defeat at La Rochelle in 1372, and the loss of all pretension to the actual sovereignty of the seas.

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^{page 210 note 1} Heath, , History of Grocers, p. 47Google Scholar.

^{page 210 note 2} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 277.

^{page 210 note 3} Ibid. iii. 225; also Chronicle of London (4to. 1827).

^{page 210 note 4} Herbert, , Livery Companies, i. 30Google Scholar, note. In 1385 he disenfranchised several persons for following trades to which they had not been brought up. John Lynn and Nicholas Marchant were free of the haberdashers, but dealt as mercers; Southbrook, a weaver, and Skinner, a tailor, occupied themselves in the drapery business.

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^{page 211 note 1} Liber Albus, i. 462.

^{page 211 note 2} On the early history of the great companies see Aungier's, Introduction to the French Chronicle of London (Camden Society), xviiiGoogle Scholar.; also Herbert, , Livery Companies, p. 37Google Scholar.

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^{page 212 note 2} Noorthouck, p. 790.

^{page 213 note 1} Rolls of Parliament, ii. 332, 347. In these petitions the dearness of imported goods is referred to, but apparently as due to the decay of English shipping, or to combinations among aliens.

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^{page 213 note 3} 2 Ric. II. St. i. c. 1, §§ 5, 7.

^{page 213 note 4} Rolls of Parliament, iii. 27.

^{page 213 note 5} 5 Ric. II. st. ii. c. 1; 11 Ric. II. c. 7; 14 Ric. II. c. 9.

^{page 213 note 6} 16 Ric. II. c. 1.

^{page 214 note 1} 5 Ric. II. i. c. 3. Compare also 6 Ric. II. c. 8, which allowed the use of foreign ships in emergencies, and 14 Ric. II. c. 6, which makes allusion to exorbitant freights.

^{page 214 note 2} 2 Ric. II. st. i. c. 4.

^{page 214 note 3} 9 Ed. III. St. ii. c. 1, which contains very similar terms, is closely connected with regulations about currency; but this appears to have a different import, as it stands in connection with regulations for trade, and explicitly refers to the destruction of the realm.

^{page 214 note 4} 5 Ric. II. st. i. c. 2.

^{page 215 note 1} Rolls of Parl., ii 347.

^{page 215 note 2} Ibid. iii. 126.