In the 15th century the foreign market of England was suffering from the surplus of the foreign merchants, that greatly displeased the English ones. They made protest in different forms, beginning with the raids on the factories of the foreign merchants and ending with the restriction of their rights.
Documents of the following years: 1464, 1478, 1483, 1485, 1494, 1508, 1518, 1519, 1529 confirm the fact of restiction of theforeign trade and declaration of war against them. At the same time it turns out that the royal authority prohibited the raids on the foreign merchants, the aggravations of the relation and the disorder in city.