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THE EARLY HISTORY OF
were sufficiently numerous to be under the
government of their own Consul.3
The chief intercourse between England
and Venice was carried on by a small sseet of
trading vessels called the “ Flanders Galleys.”4
These galleys brought a variety of merchan-
dise to England5 which may be classed
under two heads. First, there were the
costly spices, and secondly, the more general
articles of Eastern product and Venetian
industry. The Italians distinguished between
spices proper or “ gross-spice ” and the
drugs or “ small-spice.” 6 Gross-spice in-
cluded gingers, cinnamon, pepper, cloves,
nutmegs, red sandal-wood, camphor and many
other drugs ; while under small-spice such
things as rhubarb from Persia, aloes, dates,
sugar, currants, prunes, malmsies and Tyrian
wine were understood. The whole of the
spice trade was enormously lucrative, though
3 V. S. P. I. Preface, p. 59.
4 For an account of these Galleys and tlfe regulations
which were made concerning them, see Venetian State
Papers, I. Preface, p. 61 sf.
5 V. S. P. I. Preface 135 sf. and Rogers : History of
Prices, iv. chapter 23.
6 V. S. P. I. Preface, p. 137.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF
were sufficiently numerous to be under the
government of their own Consul.3
The chief intercourse between England
and Venice was carried on by a small sseet of
trading vessels called the “ Flanders Galleys.”4
These galleys brought a variety of merchan-
dise to England5 which may be classed
under two heads. First, there were the
costly spices, and secondly, the more general
articles of Eastern product and Venetian
industry. The Italians distinguished between
spices proper or “ gross-spice ” and the
drugs or “ small-spice.” 6 Gross-spice in-
cluded gingers, cinnamon, pepper, cloves,
nutmegs, red sandal-wood, camphor and many
other drugs ; while under small-spice such
things as rhubarb from Persia, aloes, dates,
sugar, currants, prunes, malmsies and Tyrian
wine were understood. The whole of the
spice trade was enormously lucrative, though
3 V. S. P. I. Preface, p. 59.
4 For an account of these Galleys and tlfe regulations
which were made concerning them, see Venetian State
Papers, I. Preface, p. 61 sf.
5 V. S. P. I. Preface 135 sf. and Rogers : History of
Prices, iv. chapter 23.
6 V. S. P. I. Preface, p. 137.