In particular, a great jealousy prevailed against merchant strangers; and many restraints were by law imposed upon them; namely, that they should lay out in English manufactures or commodities all the money acquired by the sale of their goods; that they should not buy or sell with one another; and that all their goods should be disposed of three months after importation.[*] * 4 Henry IV.cap.15, and 5 Henry IV.cap.

9.
This last clause was found so inconvenient, that it was soon after repealed by parliament.
It appears that the expense of this king's household amounted to the yearly sum of nineteen thousand five hundred pounds, money of that age.[*] * Rymer, tom.viii.p.

610.
Guicciardin tells us, that the Flemings in this century learned from Italy all the refinements in arts, which they taught the rest of Europe.
The progress, however, of the arts was still very slow and backward in England..