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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.10
page 253
fo ftronr1 that neither the Genoefe not Venetians Audi carry their merchandSe to Flanders through this (Irait, without paying fo great a toll as to make ill the world wonder thereat, and even then it (hall be confidered as a matter of favour/
What thefe Africans had propofed they exe. cuted ; and all the kingdoms to the fouth, wed and eaft, formed an alliance, fuch as Africa, Tunis, Bugta, Morocco, Benmarin, Tremeçen and Gra-nada, with a refolution of well guarding their coafts, and equipping fuch a fleet of galleys as fhould make them mafters of the fea, through hatred to the French and Genoefe for their late fiege of Africa. They interrupted fo much the navigation of the Venetians and Genoefe, that mer-chandiffe from. Alexandria, Cairo, Damafcus, Ve-nice, Naples or Genoa, was difficult to be had in Flanders'for money; and, in particular, every fort fcFfpiceiry was enormoufly dear.
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