ABSTRACT
Entry of English merchants into trade with Portugal — Prosperity of Lisbon—The wine trade — Position of English merchants in Portugal—Portuguese merchants in England under Edward III. and Richard II.—The Treaty of Windsor, and the flourishing state of the trade during the years following it—Portugal's trade with England, as seen in the “ Libelle of English Polycye ”—English merchants acquire new privileges in Portugal—Irish merchants in Portugal—Petitions of English merchants to Alfonso V., 1454 and 1458—Commercial effects of the alliance of 1386—Embassy of John II. to Edward IV. — Embassy of Henry VII. to John II.—End of the mediæval period.
