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 enemy. In that case the goods were to be forfeited, and the people imprisoned. In the event of Portuguese property being in any ship captured from an enemy, it was to be carried to England until the owner should prove his right to it; and English property found by the Portuquese in ships belonging to their enemies was to be correspondingly dealt with. Meanwhile, the fishing-boats of Portagal might enter all the ports of England and Brittany upon paying the usual duties and customs. Edward III. died on June 21st, 1377, and was succeeded by his



SEAL OF THE BARONS OF DOVER, XIVTH CENTURY. (From Nicolas.)

grandson, Richard II., son, by Joan of Kent, of Edward the Black Prince. The civil history of the navy, during the reign of Richard, is very uneventful; but the period has been illustrated by Chaucer, and is important for the purpose in hand, if only because it has bequeathed to us Chucer's fine picture of the Shipman of the time:—

A shipman was ther woned fer by west; For ought I wote he was of Dertmouth; He rode upon a rouncie as he couthe, All in a goune of falding to the knee. A dagger hanging by a las hadde he About his nekke under his arm adoun;