& mayntained: we do most heartily require the sayd friendship, exhorting you in the Lord that you would on your behalf consent & ordain (even as, if you shall so do, we for our part wil consent likewise) that from this present until the feast of Easter next insuing (al molestations & injuries which may be offred ceasing on both parts) our subjects by your territories & dominions, & your subjects by our realms, may peaceably & securely travel, & that according to their wonted maner, they may friendly converse & exercise mutual traffick together: because we are determined to send unto you & your counsel in the mean time some of our ambassadors, friendly to intreat about the foresaid pretended injuries, so far forth as they shal concerne our subjects. At whose arival we stand in good hope that by the due administration of justice on both parts, such order (by Gods assistance) shalbe taken, that mutual peace and tranquillity may be established between us in times to come. Also our desire is in particular, that our marchants & liege subjects may have more free passage granted them unto the parts of Sconia, for the providing of herrings and of other fishes there, that they may there remayne, and from thence also may more securely returne unto their owne home: and we beseech you in consideration of our owne selves, that you would have our marchants and liege subjects especially recommended unto you, safely protecting them (if need shall require) under the shadow of your defence: even as you would have us to deale in the like case with your own subjects. Moreover, whatsoever you shall thinke good to put in practise in this behalfe, may it please you of your friendship, by our faythfull subject John Browne the bearer hereof to give us to understand. In the sonne of the glorious virgine fare ye well, with continuall prosperity and felicity according to your owne hearts desire. Given under our privie seale, at our palace of Westminster, the fift day of June, and in the fift yere of our reigne.

Postscriptum.

RIGHT reverend and our most deare friend: albeit our welbeloved Arnold de Dassele the procurator of your foresaid messengers, being desirous at this time to make his final returne unto your parts, by reason of the affayres, for which he hath remained in our realme of England,

cannot as yet obtaine his wished expedition: notwithstanding you of your sincere affection ought not to marvel or any whit to be grieved thereat: because troubles of wars arising, which in some sort concerned our selves, and especially in regard of the continuall assaults of the French men & Britons against us and our kingdome, for the defence of whom, and our owne defence, our liege subjects (especially they, of whom your subjects damnified have made their complaints) have armed themselves to combate upon the sea: we could not grant unto the foresayd Arnold such and so speedy an expedition, as he earnestly desired to have. Unto the which Arnold your procurator we have offered in as short time as may be, to administer complete justice with favour, to ye end that for this cause he might dispose himselfe to remaine in our realme of England: & yet notwithstanding wee would do the very same even in the absence of the sayd procurator. Given as above.

An agreement made betweene king Henry the fourth and Conradus de Jungingen Master generall of the land of Prussia.

THIS Indenture made between Sir William Esturmy knight, John Kington clerke, and William Brampton citizen of London the ambassadors, commissioners, & messengers of the most mighty prince and lord, our sovereigne lord Henrie by the grace of God king of England and France, and lorde of Ireland, for the repayring, reformation, and amends of whatsoever damages, grievances, excesses, violences, and injuries in any sort unjustly attempted, done, or offered, by our sayd soveraigne lord the king and his liege people and subjects, unto the great and mighty lord Conradus de Jungingen Master general of the order of the Dutch knights of S. Maries hospital of Jerusalem, or his subjects and for the requiring, demanding, and receiving of such like reparations, reformations & amends, by the foresayd lord the Master generall, for the behalfe of himselfe or any of his subjects whatsoever, from & in the name of our soveraign lord the king & his subjects, unto the sayd Master general, into his land of Prussia, by our sovereigne lord the king, & appointed as ambassadors on the one party: And betweene the hono: Lords and religious personages Conradus de Lichtenstein great

commander, Warnherus de Tettingen chiefe hospitalary & commander in Elbing, & Arnold de Hacken treasurer, the procurators & commissioners of the great & mighty lord the Master general, being in like & equal sort and in all respects, as the ambassadours of England are, authorized on the contrary side by the authoritie and power of the sayd Master general on the other part, witnesseth: That divers treaties & conferences being holden between the said ambassadors, messengers, & procurators or commissioners of & concerning the reparations, reformations & amends of certaine damages, grievances, excesses, violences & injuries offered and attempted aswel by the Prussians against the English as by the English against the Prussians, and of other actes unjustly committed on both parts: in conclusion, after the sayd treatise, the foresayd ambassadours, procurators and commissioners by vertue of the authority committed unto them appoynted, and with one consent agreed unto the articles under written.

Inprimis, that for the consideration of mutuall love and woonted friendship, and of peace and tranquillity hereafter to be continued and maintained, and also that the articles underwritten may more prosperously be brought unto a wished effect, between our said soveraign lord the king & his liege people & subjects, & the subjects, people, & inhabitants of the territories and dominions of the foresayd lord the Master generall, it is agreed and concluded, that all liege marchants of England whatsoever, shall have free licence and libertie to arrive with their shippes, goods and marchandises whatsoever, at any Porte of the land of Prussia, and also the sayd goods and marchandises farther unto any place of the sayd land of Prussia to transport, and there with any person or persons freely to contract and bargaine, even as heretofore, and from auncient times it hath bene accustomed. Which liberty in all respects is granted unto the Prussians in England.

Item it is farther agreed betweene the sayd ambassadours, procurators, and commissioners, that whereas of late, namely in the yeare of our lord 1403, the sayd Master general by his discreet subjects John Godek of Dantzik, and Henry Monek of Elbing, his ambassadors & messengers, for this purpose hath caused certain articles, (namely 20. in number) containing in them

matters of damages, molestations, violences, and injuries. committed and offered against the said Master generall & his subjects, by our sayd soveraigne lord the king his subjects & liege people, to be exhibited, given up and delivered unto our lord the king aforesaid in his kingdome of England: it is concluded and agreed about the sayd 20. articles, by the aforesaid ambassadors, commissioners, and procurators, as in the acts & pleas had and made before the sayd ambassadors, commissioners and procurators, and in the records made and written of and about the examination of such articles, it is more at large contayned (unto the which the sayd ambassadors, commissioners, and messengers doe here in this place referre themselves) of the which articles also some are received by the commissioners aforesayd, and others are proroged unto a certaine time under written, even as in the foresayd registers it is more fully contayned and put downe in writing.

As touching certaine other articles also exhibited a newe unto the sayd English ambassadors, in the land of Prussia being 16 in number (whereof one is admitted, & the rest are proroged until a terme underwritten) the same course is to be taken and observed, which was before appoynted and agreed upon, about the articles delivered and exhibited unto our foresayd sovraigne lorde the king, as is aforesayd.

Moreover, as touching the articles exhibited by the English ambassadours in the name and behalfe of their sayd soveraigne lord the king of England, unto the procuratours and commissioners of the foresayd lord the Master generall (of the which some are declared already, and the declaration of the rest is proroged untill a certayne terme undernamed, even as in the registers made of and upon the examination of the sayd articles, it is more manifestly provided) the same course is to be taken, which must be observed about the articles of the sayd lord the Master generall, exhibited, as well unto the foresayd soveraigne prince in England, as unto his ambassadors in the land of Prussia, even as about the sayd articles it is before concluded.

And whereas on the behalfe of the citizens and marchants of the cities of Rij and Dorp, and of other townes in the land of Livonia, many and great complaints have bene by way of articles exhibited and delivered unto the

sayd English ambassadours in the land of Prussia, which for divers causes, could not as then be ended: therefore it is concluded and agreed upon betweene the ambassadours, and the commissioners aforesayd, that the saide citizens and marchants may in the towne of Dordract in Holland, upon the first day of the moneth of May next ensuing (at the which time and place, the continuation and prorogation of all other articles not fully declared in the partes of Prussia, shall be put in ure) by themselves or their lawfull procurators, make their appearance, for the obtayning of a convenient, just, and reasonable reformation of all injuries attempted against them, then, or at some other times within one whole yere next following, and not afterward, being effectually set downe and limited, at the place aforesaid, by the consent of the ambassadours and commissioners of either parte, all lawful impediments ceasing.

Provided alwayes, that the value and price of all wares, goods, and marchandises, whereof the said citizens and marchants of Livonia, in their articles received by the sayde English ambassadours, as is aforesayd, doe make mention, shall be justly esteemed, prized, and approoved, not by any of England, or of Prussia, or of Livonia, but by some other indifferent marchants of good credite, valuing them at the true rate of marchants, which such like marchandise would have amounted unto, if, at the time when they were taken, they had bene to be solde at the town of Bruges in Flanders.

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Forasmuch also, as divers and sundry Prussians (who exhibited manifolde Articles of complaints, being received by the said English Ambassadours, at their abode in Prussia) made not their personall appearance, before the saide English Ambassadours, in the lande of Prussia aforesaide: The prorogation above-mentioned was made unto the first day of the moneth of May and also it was agreed upon by the saide Ambassadours, Procurators, and Commissioners, that the saide parties which had not appeared before shall have libertie graunted them, lawfully to make their appearance, upon the first of May aforesaide, at the towne of Dordract, either by themselves or by their Procurators, and also to bring with them the letters testimonial, and patents, sealed with the seale of the saide Lord the Master generall, (he having first of all received sound and sufficient information from the