KING EDWARD IV.'S CHARTER a.d. 



alner and measure al kinds of marchandises which they 

 shal buy or sel by the yard : and also as many weighers 

 to weigh the marchandise which shalbe sold or bought by 

 weight : and also so many folders to fold their clothes, 

 and so many packers to pack their packs, and to make 

 their fardels, maunds, and baskets, and other things 

 needefull for the defence & preservation of their mar- 

 chandize. Al which ministers, officers, and servitors, so 

 chosen, elected, charged, admitted, and established by the 

 saide governour, as is saide, may take their wages for their 

 paines & attendances upon the said marchants, according 

 to the custome of the said countreis, and as they have 

 bene accustomed to take of the said marchants before these 

 presents by us given and graunted. And hereupon we 

 have given and doe give expresse charge and commande- 

 ment by us and in our names to all our said subjects 

 common marchants and mariners, and to every of them 

 which shall frequent, come, remaine, passe, repaire, or 

 inhabite within the countreis aforesaid, that they shall 

 not make contract or bargaine, sell or buy, nor shall 

 not cause any contract or bargaine to be made, nor in 

 the said countreis sell or buy any maner of wares, 

 goods, or marchandises, secretely nor openly, by way 

 of fraude, barat, or deceite whatsoever, with any person 

 or persons, of what estate, countrey, or condition soever 

 they be, without he hath some of the said brokers at 

 the bargain making, to present, report, and to testifie 

 the said contracts or bargains before the said governor 

 or others, if need require, and strife or contention 

 should grow therof betweene them : nor to packe or 

 cause to be packed any goods or marchandises belonging 

 unto them, in packs, bales, or fardels, coffers, chests, 

 maunds, dryfats, or rowles, without having some deputy 

 present thereat : nor to take or cause to be taken or 

 set on worke in the said countreis, any other brokers, 

 alnagers, weighers, folders, or packers, then the aforesaid 

 so chosen, admitted, established, and ordained by the 

 saide governor, & hereto authorized in our name, as it is 



i53 



