The History of British Commerce From the Earliest Times volume 1

George L George Lillie Craik

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, in 1253, ordered all the vessels in the country to be seized and employed in an expedition against the rebel barons of Gascony, the number of them, Matthew Paris tells us, was found to be above a thousand, of which three hundred were large ships. The foreign as well as the English vessels, how- ever, are included in this enumeration ; the former as well as the latter were subject to be thus pressed. Ac- cording to an account given in one of the Cotton manu- scripts of the fleet employed by Ed...ward III. At the siege of Calais in 1346, it consisted of 25 ships belonging to the king, which carried 419 mariners ; of 37 foreign ships (from Bayonne, Spain, Flanders, and Gueldorland), manned by 780 mariners ; of one vessel from Ireland, caiTving 25 men ; and of 710 vessels belonging to Eng- * Issues of Excheq. Ut supra. The editor adcls — " The names of other ships are also meutioued. " BEITISII COMMERCE. 141 Jish ports, the crews of which amounted to 14, 151 per- sons. These merchantmen were divided into the south and the north fleet, according as they belonged to the ports south or north of the Thames.

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