ABSTRACT
Danger of shipwreck — Cases of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants robbed by English subjects—Their petitions for compensation or restitution—Procedure in such cases—Other dangers, piracy, unlawful arrest, detention in English ports—Some periods worse than others—The war between England and France in Edward III.'s reign—Violent treatment of Portuguese merchants in England during Richard II.'s reign, chiefly on account of the debts of the King of Portugal—Gascon and English merchants robbed by the Portuguese—The French war renewed by Henry V., and the increase in the number of Portuguese merchants plundered by the English during the middle of the fifteenth century—Reprisals of the Portuguese on English merchants in Portugal — Special letters of exemption granted by the King of Portugal.
