Alien Merchants
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foreign merchants · merchant strangers · alien merchants · alien traders · strangers
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1 expressionMerchant Strangers“Alien Merchants”1 mention
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
For the legal position of aliens, see Pollock and Maitland, I.
in the texts
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.
The better opinion would seem to be that this chapter applied to foreign traders from friendly states.
confiscated the liberties of London, suppressed what he characterized as abuses, and favoured the aliens.
In the reissue of 1216 the privileges conferred on merchant strangers were confined to such as had not been “publicly prohibited beforehand.