The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . to weigh for abeat off the Swin. There lay at the time in the harbourof Sluys an armed galley of considerable tonnage,the St. Thomas, a British built ship, purchased, it wassaid, by English merchants as a French prize, andchartered by Thomas Portinari and other Florentinesof Bruges for a voyage to London. She was laden withcloths, linen, alum, peltry, spices, and arras to the valueof 60,000 Flemish pounds, 3 partly consigned to London,partly to Florence and Pisa;^ and amongst the pack-ages on board was a triptych of considerable va


The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . to weigh for abeat off the Swin. There lay at the time in the harbourof Sluys an armed galley of considerable tonnage,the St. Thomas, a British built ship, purchased, it wassaid, by English merchants as a French prize, andchartered by Thomas Portinari and other Florentinesof Bruges for a voyage to London. She was laden withcloths, linen, alum, peltry, spices, and arras to the valueof 60,000 Flemish pounds, 3 partly consigned to London,partly to Florence and Pisa;^ and amongst the pack-ages on board was a triptych of considerable value. ^To insure the freight against capture, the ship was 1 Caspar Weinreichs Danziger Chronik, herausgegeben underlautert von Theodor Hirsch und F. A. Vossberg. 40. Berlin,1855. p. 5. 2 Ibid. Beilage I. pp. 93-5. 3 Weinreichs Chronik, p. 13. 4 Declaration of Portinaris agent Spinelli, dated 1473, inBeilage I to Weinreichs Chronik, p. 101. 5 Weinreichs Chronik, pp. 13, 14, and extracts in notes to thesame from Melmanns Chronik and the small Melmanns


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