Merchants from seventeen kingdoms had their settled domiciles at Bruges, besides strangers from almost unknown countries, who repaired thither.
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View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (1818), vol. iii, p. 376. "Mr. Hallam quotes for the fact Meyer, fol. 805, ad ann. 1335."—Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith (New York, 1882), vol. i, p. 409