. Peeps into Picardy . ort and repairfrom time to time there, to buy and sell, changeand rechange with perfect and equal freedom andimmunity, provided always the traffic or feates of merchandises were effected according to tariff. Our dread and sovereigne lord the King, asthe proclamation under date July 13, 1527, hasit, * mynding the wealth, increase and enrich-ing of his realm of England, and of this his townof Calais, and the marches of the same, throughthe protection therein accorded to our homemanufactures, the shipping that conveyed themto the distant depot, as well as to the infantcolon
. Peeps into Picardy . ort and repairfrom time to time there, to buy and sell, changeand rechange with perfect and equal freedom andimmunity, provided always the traffic or feates of merchandises were effected according to tariff. Our dread and sovereigne lord the King, asthe proclamation under date July 13, 1527, hasit, * mynding the wealth, increase and enrich-ing of his realm of England, and of this his townof Calais, and the marches of the same, throughthe protection therein accorded to our homemanufactures, the shipping that conveyed themto the distant depot, as well as to the infantcolony across the channel, served to place us incommercial ascendancy. A line of pohcy some-what at variance to our present insane code oftossing every advantage into the lap of ouropponents. The guildhall was formerly very extensive. ACharter was granted to the Company of Staplers-of Calais during the reign of Edward III, sometwenty or twenty-five years before the buildingof the Inn or Guildhall, which was built by letters. FONT, DANNES. CALAIS IN MEDL^VAL TIMES 21 patent from Richard II, dated February 8, 1389,stating that the Royal Wool Staple should besituated in a place called the Pillory Haven,a small creek supposed to have entered, in thatday, near the present southern gate, in com-munication with the River Aa. The motto ofthese staplers was God be our friend. The mint and other offices belonging to theCalaisian dependencies were situated in the sameplace. Philip de Commines says in his memoirsthat the Kings of England drew a great revenuefrom the customiS duty levied on wool at Calais,and that the custody of that port was consideredone of the highest posts, or, as he expresses it; La plus belle Capitainerie in the gift of theEnghsh crowTi. Afterwards this Staple hall wasgiven by Henry II of France as a residenceto the Duke of Guise, the celebrated Balafre,when the English were driven out by himfrom Calais, as a reward for his having freedthe city. During the occ
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