This is a full edition of the trading privileges that had been granted to the Merchant Adventurers' Company of England by the princes of the Low Countries from 1296, copied into one diplomatic reference book in 1484.
The sequence of grants reveals the steadily increasing value of the cross-Channel trade--at first dominated by wool, and then by woollen cloth and linen--which made it important that peace was maintained between the nations. The introduction explains why this copy of the grants was made for an embassy ordered by Richard III to solve a mercantile impasse and circumvent the...