!!!!2. It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as was used in literature as a "safe port".

*//Early English law// quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22\\&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

with our shippes saill To port salu," where the editor observes: "Port salu wsis a. kind oi proverbial expression, and so used in  the translation of Cicero de Senectute, printed by Caxton." (D.)[^John Skelton. Skelton. A selection from the poetical works of John Skelton [[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-skelton/skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci/page-11-skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci.shtml]] viewed 24 June 2012]]^]

->Of worldly trust, then did I you rescue [^Henry Morley, //English writers; an attempt towards a history of English literature//, Griffin, William Hall, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1887 [[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924016645289/cu31924016645289_djvu.txt]] viewed 24 June 2012]]^]

*//Early English law// quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

Belgium did not exist in 1577.  Rather it was broadly straddled by the Southern Netherlands (whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg) as well as the northern provinces (whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands).  The present-day translation from Latin of Ordinum Belgii is "The United Provinces of the Netherlands"[^See for example,// Celsorum & praepotentium federati Belgii ordinum ad S. Caes. Majestatem epistle.// (Book, 1665) [WorldCat.org], http://www.worldcat.org/title/celsorum-praepotentium-federati-belgii-ordinum-ad-s-caes-majestatem-epistola/oclc/068916864]] viewed 24 June 2012^] (or literally, but deceptively, the "United States").

!!!!1. This particular calculi has the following reference in //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//[^Jean François Dugniolle, //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//, Société njile do oninitiqie belge, Bruxelle, Tome Premier — QUINZIÈME SIÈCLE, 1875.[[http://www.archive.org/stream/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog_djvu.txt]] viewed 21 June 2012^].

||Agreement.1577.With Piety||Calculi.United Provinces\\ of the Netherlands\\Port Salu||

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||CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE.\\PORT SALV||CALCVLI.ORDINIM.BELGII.||
||Agreement 1577 With Piety||Calculi Netherlands\\Port Salu||

Belgium did not exist in 1577.  Rather it was broadly straddled by the Southern Netherlands (whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg) as well as the northern provinces (whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present-day Kingdom of the Netherlands).  The present-day translation from Latin of Ordinim Belgii is "The Netherlands".

!!!!2. It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as was used in literature as a safe port.  For example:

*//Skelton: Garlande of Laurell.[^John Skelton. Skelton[//^ibid verse 194.^]

!!!!#This particular calculi has the following reference in //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//[^Jean François Dugniolle, //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//, Société njile do oninitiqie belge, Bruxelle, Tome Premier — QUINZIÈME SIÈCLE, 1875.[[http://www.archive.org/stream/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog_djvu.txt]] viewed 21 June 2012^].

!!!!#It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as was used in literature as a safe port.  For example:

## JOHN SKELTON

##Skelton: Garlande of Laurell.[^John Skelton. Skelton[^ibid verse 194.^]

##Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

##Port Salu is not "Port Salut", either representing a coastal town in the Sud Department of Haiti or relating to the cheese of that name.  The name of the cheese arises from 1816 when, after fleeing events related to the French Revolution, monks settled at the Mayenne river at a point called Port Rhingeard  and named it Port Salut after "Ici est notre Salut!" ("Here is our salvation!")[^[[http://www.groupe-bel.com/bebel/en/our-brands/port-salut.html|Discover Port Salut®]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

!!!!1. This particular calculi has the following reference in //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//[^Jean François Dugniolle, //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//, Société njile do oninitiqie belge, Bruxelle, Tome Premier — QUINZIÈME SIÈCLE, 1875.[[http://www.archive.org/stream/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog_djvu.txt]] viewed 21 June 2012^].

!!!!2. It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as was used in literature as a safe port.  For example:

## Skelton: Garlande of Laurell.[^John Skelton. Skelton[^ibid verse 194.^]

## Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

## Port Salu is not "Port Salut", either representing a coastal town in the Sud Department of Haiti or relating to the cheese of that name.  The name of the cheese arises from 1816 when, after fleeing events related to the French Revolution, monks settled at the Mayenne river at a point called Port Rhingeard  and named it Port Salut after "Ici est notre Salut!" ("Here is our salvation!")[^[[http://www.groupe-bel.com/bebel/en/our-brands/port-salut.html|Discover Port Salut®]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

(#) JOHN SKELTON

(#) Skelton: Garlande of Laurell.[^John Skelton. Skelton[^ibid verse 194.^]

(#) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

(iv) Port Salu is not "Port Salut", either representing a coastal town in the Sud Department of Haiti or relating to the cheese of that name.  The name of the cheese arises from 1816 when, after fleeing events related to the French Revolution, monks settled at the Mayenne river at a point called Port Rhingeard  and named it Port Salut after "Ici est notre Salut!" ("Here is our salvation!")[^[[http://www.groupe-bel.com/bebel/en/our-brands/port-salut.html|Discover Port Salut®]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

(i) JOHN SKELTON

(ii)

(iii) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference in the French translation, of an edict from the twelfth year of Edward IV which specifies that because of a scarcity of bow staves in the Kingdom each "carrack, galley or ship" entering it must bring four good bow staves for every ton of cargo on pain of forfeiture of the cargo and ship, and that two men expert in such matters will be assigned to search every such vessel that "shall hereafter //come to safe port//" or in the French translation  "//de faire son port salu//."(emphasis added)  [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, pp. 408-9 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^] 

(iii) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference, inter alia, to "to make his Port Salu". [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762, p. 409 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

(iii) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference, inter alia, to "to make his Port Salu". [^Danby Pickering, //The statutes at large: from the First Year of King Henry V to the Twenty-Second Year of King EDW. IV. inclusive//, Vol. III., Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1762 [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

(iii) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference, inter alia, to "to make his Port Salu". [^[[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false|The statutes at large: from Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...]] viewed 24 June 2012^]

->Of worldly trust, then did I you rescue [^[[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924016645289/cu31924016645289_djvu.txt]] viewed 24 June 2012]]^]

with our shippes saill To port salu," where the editor observes: "Port salu wsis a. kind oi proverbial expression, and so used in  the translation of Cicero de Senectute, printed by Caxton." (D.)[^[[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-skelton/skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci/page-11-skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci.shtml]] viewed 24 June 2012]]^]

(iii) Law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference, inter alia, to "to make his Port Salu". [^[[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false|The statutes at large: from Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...]] viewed 24 June 2012^]  Also  Skelton has the term  in his Garlande of Laurell, v. 541. Compare Hoccleve,
Poems, p. 61 (ed. 1796), " whether our taill Shall soone make us with our shippes saill To port salu," where the editor observes,
*' Port salu wsis a. kind oi proverbial expression, and so used in
the translation of Cicero de Senectute, printed by Caxton." (D.)

with our shippes saill To port salu," where the editor observes: ' Port salu wsis a. kind oi proverbial expression, and so used in
the translation of Cicero de Senectute, printed by Caxton." (D.)[^[[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-skelton/skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci/page-11-skelton-a-selection-from-the-poetical-works-of-john-skelton-hci.shtml]] viewed 24 June 2012]]^]

with our shippes saill To port salu," where the editor observes,
*' Port salu wsis a. kind oi proverbial expression, and so used in

!! Notes

!!!1. This particular calculi has the following reference in //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//[^Jean François Dugniolle, //Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas//, Société njile do oninitiqie belge, Bruxelle, Tome Premier — QUINZIÈME SIÈCLE, 1875.[[http://www.archive.org/stream/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog/lejetonhistoriq00dugngoog_djvu.txt]] viewed 21 June 2012^].

!!!2. It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as was used in literature as a safe port.  For example:

!! References

||Concord 1577 With Piety||Calculi Netherlands\\Port Salu||

||Concord 1577 With Godliness||Calculi Netherlands\\Port Salu||

It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as it was used from Roman times onwards in literature as a safe port.  For example, law quoted in a book of English Law post Magna Carta, contains a reference, inter alia, to "to make his Port Salu". [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false|he statutes at large: from Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...]] viewed 24 June 2012.

It is not clear whether "Port Salu" is a place, or simply as it was used from Roman times onwards in literature as a safe port.  For example, in the English laws of Edward 2, there is a reference to "to make his Port Salu". [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=J1MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA409&lpg=PA409&dq=%22port+salu%22&source=bl&ots=s4FbGZAXTt&sig=X87WWJvJ2h5gMRnywYZ65gKMoSg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awXnT4m0BoajiAfT8oRZ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22port%20salu%22&f=false|he statutes at large: from Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...]] viewed 24 June 2012.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails [literally docking the mast].  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands, under a crown surmounted by a host [sacramental bread].  Engraved by Van Loon. page references 327, 225, Cabinet [Firm, Office] of M. Geelband.

||Concord 1577 With Godliness||Official Calculi of Belgium\\Port Salu||

||Accord 1577 With Godliness||Official Calculi of Belgium\\Port Salu||

||CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE.\\PORT SALV||CALVLI.ORDINIM.BELGII.||

Calculi (literally "pebbles" in Latin) or tokens or "jetons" (in French) were minted in many cities of Europe from the the C13 through the C17 for use as counters for calculation in multiple settings.  They were frequently used on a lined board to assist their arrangement.

* Bert van Beek (1986). "Jetons: Their Use and History", //Perspectives in Numismatics//, Chicago Coin Club, [[http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/juh.html]], viewed 23 June 2012 (and references therein).

||Accord 1577 With Godliness||Official Belgium Calculi\\Port Salu||

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails [literally docking the mast].  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands, under a crown surmounted by a host [sacramental bread].  Engraved by Van Loon. page references 327, 225, Office [Firm, Cabinet] of M. Geelband.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails [literally docking the mast].  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands, under a crown surmounted by a host [sacramental bread].  Engraved by Van Loon. page references 327, 225, Office [Cabinet] de M. Geelband.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails [literally docking the mast].  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands,\\ ->under a crown surmounted by a host [sacramental bread].  Engraved by Van Loon. page references 327, 225, Office [Cabinet] de M. Geelband.

sous une couronne surmontée d'une hostie.

Cabinet de M. Geelband.

Gabidet de M. Geelband.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails [literally docking the mast].  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands,
under a crown surmounted by a host [sacramental bread].  Engraved in Van Loon. page references 327, 225, Gabidet of M. Geelband.

GabiDet de M. Geelband.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering the sails.  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands,
under a crown surmounted by a host.

->ie.  A boat at the point of entry into the port; port Salu; lowering(docking?) the mast.  Three hearts together and supported by two clasped hands,

->SALU accostant le m(ât.

->Un vaisseau sur le point d entrer dans le port; port —
->SALu accostant le m(ât.

->Rev. • CUM • PIETATE • CONCORDIA • IS 76.

Bert van Beek (1986). "Jetons: Their Use and History", //Perspectives in Numismatics//, Chicago Coin Club, http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/juh.html, viewed 23 June 2012.

||Accord 1577 With Godliness||Official Belgium Calculi\\Port Salu||

||Accord 1577 With Godliness\\Port Salu||Official Belgium Calculi||

||CALVLI.ORDINIM.BELGII.||CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE.\\PORT SALV||
||Official Belgium Calculi||Accord 1577 With Godliness\\Port Salu||

||Official Belgium Calculi\\Port Salu||Accord 1577 With Godliness||

||CALVLI.ORDINIM.BELGII.\\PORT SALV||CONCORDIA.1577.CVM.PIETATE.||

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