. 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. 1402. 613 J OaoberâAll importers of merchandize, whether Englifli or foreign- ers, were ordered by parliament to inveft the â¢whole proceeds of their cargoes
. 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. 1402. 613 J OaoberâAll importers of merchandize, whether Englifli or foreign- ers, were ordered by parliament to inveft the â¢whole proceeds of their cargoes m Englifh merchandize for exportation, referving money only for their neceflary eyenfes. Neither vvas any perfon whatfoever per- T^t /rfrris^^e r '^"^°''' '^' ^'°^'' ^P'^^^^ ^^'^"^^- ^^'^^ It is probable that the Canary idands. which were undoubtedly known to the Phoenicians of Gadir. and by report even to the Romans were never entirely forgotten in Europe * The French and Spaniards'claim the merit of having difcovered them in the year 1395. and feem to aS knowlege that they were put upon the fearch for them by the report of Macham s difcovery of Madeira. Jean de Bethencourt, a Norman gen- tieman of Dieppe, now made a conqueft of thofe iHands. \Hakluvi V a, part 11, p. 1 .^Mem. de litterature, K xxxvii, />. 521 ] 1403. March lo'-'âIt is vexatious to find the records filled with com- plaints, niade by the continental merchants and efpecially thofe of the Hanle, ot outrages and depredations committed by Englifli feamen who It muft be acknowleged, feem too often to have confidered powe^ as the only ftandard of right. The aldermen and jurates of the Hanfe merchants refiding at Bruges complained of the capture of a Pruffian veflel loaded with wine in July 1402; and the confuls of the maritime cities ot the Hanfe affembled at Lubeck reprefented. that a veflel be- k>ngmg to Stetin was taken by the mayor of King Henry's city of Bayonne, who prefumed to deta
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