. Edinburgh Encyclopedia. COMMERCE. 25 History of English commerce. Commerce which it had occasion, more than once, to l-esort to arms, and punish the rapacious disposition of the kings of Denmark. At last the improved government of Eu- rope, lessening the necessity of this confederation, the different branches of the league gradually fell off, and remained satisfied with the protection of their respec- tive sovereigns. In the fourteenth century, the woollen manufacture was so little understood in this country, that Edward III. wrote a letter with his own hand, to John Kemp, a woollen manufact
. Edinburgh Encyclopedia. COMMERCE. 25 History of English commerce. Commerce which it had occasion, more than once, to l-esort to arms, and punish the rapacious disposition of the kings of Denmark. At last the improved government of Eu- rope, lessening the necessity of this confederation, the different branches of the league gradually fell off, and remained satisfied with the protection of their respec- tive sovereigns. In the fourteenth century, the woollen manufacture was so little understood in this country, that Edward III. wrote a letter with his own hand, to John Kemp, a woollen manufacturer in Flanders, offering to take him, and his servants, apprentices, goods, and chattels, under his royal protection, (Rymer's Fcedera, p. 496.) and pro- mising the same to all others of his occupation, as well as to all dyers and fullers, who should incline to come and settle in England. (A. D. 1337.) No less than seventy Walloon families, engaged in the woollen manufacture, availed themselves of this encouraging offer, and came over to settle here. Only four years after the introduc- tion of the first woollen manufacturers from Flanders, an act of parliament (the 11th of Edw. III. c. 2.) was passed, to prevent the exportation of wool, and holding forth protection and rewards to all cloth-workers who should come from foreign parts. By another act, (the 11th of Edw. III. c. 1.) all persons other than the king, queen, and royal family, were prohibited from wearing, any cloth that was not manufactured within the realm. The importation of foreign cloth was also forbidden on pain of forfeiture and other punishment. But so jealous were the weavers of our own coarse cloths, of the intro- duction of better workmen from abroad, that, in 1344, a mob in London, principally composed of, and insti- gated by them, insulted and maltreated the foreign wea- vers, so that they could not carry on their business with security. Upon this warrants were issued by the king, directed to the mayor an
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