Liam Byrne

From the eighth century, the most active traders with England were probably the Frisians of the northern Germanic coast, who bought and sold wine, timber, grain and fish from towns like London and York and, from at least the late seventh century, traded a certain amount of English cloth, known, appropriately, as Frisian.

Warwick and Cavendish departed London for Holland on 17 July. Hearing the news, the Privy

granted by Warwick, in his role as President of the Council of New England – it was probably carved from land of his own in somewhat