[286] _Calender of Documents preserved in France_, ed. by J. Horace Round, 1899, p. 502. [287] No woollen cloth was allowed to be dyed black except with woad. See _Liber Custumarum_, Introd., pp. xl., xliii., quoted in Letter Book C, ed. Sharpe, pp. 135, 136 (note), from which this information is obtained. The whole history of the cultivation and use of woad is one of great interest. It was cultivated in England from the earliest times, and the trade was ruined by the indigo growers as they in turn have been ruined in our own day by the manufacture in Germany of synthetic indigo. [288] Sharpe's _London and the Kingdom_, vol. i. p. 215. [289] Riley's _Memorials_, p. 444. [290] Riley's _Memorials_, p. 345. [291] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1611-1618, p. 369. [292] Cal. Letter Book B, p. 236; Cal. Letter Book C, p. vii [293] Cal. Letter Book B, p. 236. [294] Letter Book A, p. 3; Letters-Patent for St. Botolph's Fair, 1298. Letter Book B, p. 219. [295] _Liber Albus_, English translation, p. 473. [296] _Liber Albus_, English translation, p. 228. [297] Mr. W. J. Ashley writes of this town: 'The conquest of Calais furnished a place which combined the advantages of being abroad and therefore near the foreign market with that of being within English territory.'--Introduction to _English Economic History and Theory_, 1888-1893, p. 112. [298] Starkey, _England in the Reign of Henry VIII._ (Early English Text Society), p. 173. [299] Mr. W. J. Ashley notes that the earliest instance of the prohibition of the export of wool is found in the action of the Oxford Parliament of 1258. The barons then 'decreed that the wool of the country should be worked up in England and should not be sold to foreigners, and that every one should use woollen cloth made within the country,' and lest people should be dissatisfied at having to put up with the rough cloth of England they bade them 'not to seek over precious raiment.'--_English Economic History and Theory_, 1888-1893, part ii. p. 194. [300] _Political Poems and Songs_, ed. T. Wright (Rolls Series), vol. ii. 1861, pp. 157-205. [301] Letter Book C, p. 128 (note). [302] _Liber Custumarum_, p. xxxix. [303] Letter Book B, p. 94. [304] _English Gilds_, p. xvi. [305] _Ibid._, p. lxxv. [306] _Ibid._, p. cvii. [307] _English Economic History and Theory_, p. 67. [308] _Ibid._, p. 82. [309] _English Historical Review_, No. 70 (April 1903), vol. xviii. p. 315. _See_ also _Calendar of Charter Rolls_, vol. i. (1903), p. 407. [310] _Twelve Great Livery Companies_ (1834), vol. i. p. 24. [311] _Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London_, 1188-1274. Translated from the _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_ by H. T. Riley, 1863, p. 59. [312] _London and the Kingdom_, vol. i. p. 101. [313] _Ibid._, p. 108. [314] _English Economic History and Theory_, p. 87. [315] _London and the Kingdom_, vol. i. p. 200. [316] _English Gilds_, p. xlii. (note).