Appendix: December 1568

Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 9, 1569-1571. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1874.

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'Appendix: December 1568', in Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 9, 1569-1571, (London, 1874) pp. 601. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/foreign/vol9/p601 [accessed 15 April 2024]

December 1568

Dec. 2270. English Merchants in the Low Countries.
Complaint of certain English merchants trading at Antwerp to the Queen, that contrary to their privileges and the ancient treaties of intercourse, unusual customs and tolls are levied upon their goods, that they are compelled to make payments to certain Italians for the exportation of hops, and that they cannot obtain the payment of debts owing to them. Also that all goods possessed in Brabant by Ralph Starkey and George Knightley in right of their wives, who are natives of Bergenop-Zoom, have been seized.
Endd. Lat. Pp. 1¾.
2271. Translation of the above.
Pp. 2¼.
Dec. 29. 2272. Arrest of Goods in the Low Countries.
Commission by the Queen of England to certain merchants authorising them to treat with the Duke of Alva to induce him to withdraw the embargo laid upon the persons, ships, and goods of English subjects in the Low Countries.—29 Dec 1568.
Copy. Endd. Lat. Pp. 5¼.
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