Alien Merchants
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foreign merchants · merchant strangers · alien merchants · alien traders · strangers
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
Two–thirds of the chapter is occupied in explaining that merchant strangers of unfriendly States are not to benefit from it.
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Foreign traders visiting or resident in England, the principal subject of the Magna Carta chapter analysed at the start of the window.
In the reissue of 1216 the privileges conferred on merchant strangers were confined to such as had not been “publicly prohibited beforehand.
That King issued letters patent to the Mayor of London, to the magistrates of many smaller towns, and to the sheriffs of the southern counties of England, directing them, in terms closely resembling those of Magna Carta, to allow to all merchants, of whatsoever land, safe coming and going, with their wares.
Alien merchants, however, required protection, since they had, strictly speaking, no status in the eye of the law, and held their privileges from the King.