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Scotland's David II proposes to England's Edward III that the English cancel the remaining one-third of their promised ransom in return for having Edward's son succeed him on the Scottish throne. David has the support of William Douglas, 36, 1st earl of Douglas and son of the late Archibald Douglas, who hopes to regain his family's English estates and to that end risks antagonizing the designated heir Robert the Bruce. Her wars with England have cost Scotland dearly, and taxes were raised earlier to pay most of the king's ransom, but David has kept the country independent, her burgesses have gained the right to sit in Parliament along with the great landowners and churchmen (the "Three Estates"), they continue to trade with England, they have grown prosperous doing so, and the royal burghs can afford to pay the higher taxes that David now levies in an effort to strengthen the crown's finances. His Parliament will repudiate his offer to Edward next year (see 1371).
Denmark's Valdemar IV Atterdag forces the Hanseatic League to accept peace and a curtailment of its privileges (see 1362). The marriage of his daughter Margrethe to the Norwegian king Haakon VI that was arranged in 1359 will lead to the unification of Denmark and Norway (see coalition victory, 1368).
Parliament enacts legislation requiring that all English exports of raw wool be shipped through the port of Calais.
The treasurer of St. Vitus's Cathedral at Prague resigns his position: Jan Milíc (Z Kromerize), 58, has been repelled by clerical corruption and begins teaching the principles of Church reform, preaching in Czech and German as he attacks the secularization of the Roman Catholic Church. His reforming zeal and use of the vernacular rather than the traditional Latin soon win Milíc a wide following as he urges asceticism and an emphasis on Scripture as a rule for life (see 1367).
A leg of roast mutton sells in a London cookshop for as much as a farm worker earns in a day, and a whole roast pig sells for more than three times that amount to Londoners prospering by the war with France. The mutton comes mostly from old sheep, lamb almost never being eaten because the price of wool makes sheep too valuable to be slaughtered young.
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