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any kind not made in this realme, that is there of great 

 use, then to bring of the same into this realme some 

 Mowsters, that our people may fall into the trade, and 

 prepare the same for Turkie : for the more kinds of cloth 

 we can devise to make, the more ample vent of our 

 commoditie we shall have, and the more sale of the labour 

 of our poore subjects that els for lacke of labour become 

 idle and burdenous to the common weale, and hurtfull to 

 many : and in England we are in our clothing trade to 

 frame our selves according to the desires of forren 

 nations, be it that they desire thicke or thinne, broad 

 [II. i. 164.] or narowe, long or short, white or blacke. 11 But with 

 this proviso alwayes, that our cloth passe out with as 

 much labour of our people as may be, wherein great 

 consideration ought to be had : for (if vent might so 

 admit it) as it were the greatest madnesse in the world 

 for us to vent our wooll not clothed, so were it madnesse 

 to vent our wooll in part or in the whole turned into 

 broad cloth, if we might vent the same in Kersies : for there 

 is great difference in profit to our people betweene the 

 clothing of a sacke of wooll in the one, and the like sacke 

 of wooll in the other, of which I wish the marchant of 

 England to have as great care as he may for the universall 

 benefit of the poore : and the turning of a sacke of wooll 

 into Bonets is better then both &c. And also not to cary 

 out of the realme any cloth white, but died if it may be, 

 that the subjects of this realme may take as much benefit 

 as is possible, and rather to seeke the vent of the clothes 

 died with the naturall colours of England, then such as be 

 died with forren colours. 



1 2 And if of necessity we must be forced to receive 

 certaine colours from forren parts, for that this climat 

 will not breed them, I wish that our marchants procure 

 Anile and such other things to be planted in like climats 

 where now it growes, in divers other places, that this 

 realme may have that brought in for as base prices as is 

 possible, and that falling out with one place we may 

 receive the same from another, and not buy the same 



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