. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. A. D, 1283. Mayor and bailifs oi Brijlol, Mayor and citizens of Lxeter, Mayor and citizens of Lincoln^ Mayor and citizens of Canterbury, Mayor and citizens oi Carli
. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. A. D, 1283. Mayor and bailifs oi Brijlol, Mayor and citizens of Lxeter, Mayor and citizens of Lincoln^ Mayor and citizens of Canterbury, Mayor and citizens oi Carlile, Bailifs of Norwich, Mayor and good men oiNortbamton, Bailifs of Nottingham, Bailifs of Scarburgb, 439 Mayor and bailifs of Grimjby, Mayor and bailife of Lym$e, BAilifs of Cokbejer, Bailifi and good men ofTarmouti, Mayor and good men of Hereford, Mayor and good men of Cbefier, Bailifs and good men ofSbrewJkury, Mayor and good men of Worcffier. [Foedera, V. ii, pp. 247-349.] Thus were the reprefentatives of the trading part of the people, refidine an cities and bnrghs. eflablilhed as a conftituent part c/the kgiS nS j; 1^^7^^°"- , 2f ^h.« conftitution of \he parliament was fo unfcttled, that frequently the cities and burghs were not called upon to e ed their reprefentatives. I have already obferved, that the reprefent- a ives of the commons had little or no influence in parliament till lone after the time new under our confideration. ^ Odober I o'-_The parliament, met at Adon-Bumell, confiderin? that there was no law whereby merchants might recover their debts from thole to whom they entrufted their property, and that, for want of fuch a law. many merchants were impoverifted. and many foreign merchants defifted from trading to England. pafTed an ad called the Smrcte ofm^cJ^ ^«/j-. which direded that the buyer fliould appear before the mayor of wT'ti ?!'';'°' ^'n"""^' '° acknowlege the debt and day of pavment- which Ihould be regiftered ; and that the
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