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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… a draft treaty. Almost simultaneously news reached the French court that David II of Scotland and his court had …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… such business and to focus instead on the matter of the French war. 5 Given the political importance of the assembly … 1990), 62-3, 208-9. E.B. Fryde, 'Parliament and the French war, 1336-1340', in Historical Studies of the English …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… activity in the entire reign of Edward III. 4 The great French campaign of 1346 had been in the planning since 1344 … of secrecy surrounded the planning, for fear that the French would uncover the details of the scheme and thwart the … necessity and provided resources with which to fight the French. By the time parliament assembled in September, the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… credit and the wool trade during the early stages of the French wars, this continental staple became discredited, and … king, lords and commons, summarising the important Anglo-French negotiations that had begun at Gunes earlier in the … that all merchants, aliens, denizens and others, who bring wine and other goods and merchandises whatever they be to the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… is well-informed, includes an act limiting the price of wine in the city of London to a maximum of 8d for a gallon of any Gascon wine, white, claret or red. 13 A number of individual … and form following: that is to say, 3s. for every tun of wine coming into this your said realm, and for every tun of …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… view of contemporaries, wasted. After his return from the French expedition of 1475, when criticism came to a head, he …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… of Paris. At some point, probably after the Anglo-French treaty of 1475, the parlement had dismissed the case … ambassadors returning home with their belongings but wine merchants equipped with a precious metal 'taster'. The … was removed by an appeal sued by the said Richard to the French king's high court of his parliament at Paris; and …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… The grant was made in the context of a crisis in Anglo-French relations. The invasion of 1475 had ended with the … in the conflict wanted English support. But in the face of French prevarication over the projected marriage, Edward was … of weights and measures, and of the contents of vessels of wine, oil and honey, and also the statutes of servants and …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… collection of the subsidy explicitly to the pursuit of a French campaign, but it had been requested for that purpose … to a grant made to him by our letters patent of a tun of wine to be taken from our prise within our port of Bristol … the power of his old and ancient enemy of France, the French king, whereby his said highness might more easily and …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… le Vulre, one of our notaries and secretaries in our French chancery, with regard to that annuity of 50 marks …