Note 321 — Chapter II · MESSENGERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND PEDLARS
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
“Rolls of Parliament,” 45 Ed. III, year 1371, vol. ii. p. 306. While this legislation was strictly enforced in England, the royal government, according to petitions of the Commons and with remarkable naïveté, often wrote to princes on the continent, recommending them to allow their own subjects to bring to England money, bullion, and plate.