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not without a profit, immediate unto you, by the increasing 

 of customs upon the materials of days. 



But here is the case. The New Company, by this 

 patent and privy seal, are to have two things wholly di 

 verse from the first intention ; or rather, ex diametro, op 

 posite unto the same ; which, nevertheless, they must of ne 

 cessity have or else the work is overthrown. So as I may 

 call them, mala necessaria, but yet withal temporary. For 

 as men make war to have peace, so these merchants must 

 have license for Whites, to the end to banish Whites ; 

 and they must have license to use Teyntours, to the end to 

 banish Teyntours. 



This is therefore that I say ; your majesty upon these 

 two points may justly, and with honour, and with preserva 

 tion of your first intention inviolate, demand profit in the 

 interim, as long as these unnatural points continue and 

 then to cease. For your majesty may be pleased to observe 

 they are to have all the Old Company s profit, by the 

 Trade of Whites ; they are again to have upon the propor 

 tion of clothes, which they shall vend dyed and dressed, the 

 Fleming s profit upon the Teyntour. Now then as I say, 

 as it had been too good husbandry for a king to have taken 

 profit of them if the project could have been effected at 

 once (as was voiced) ; so on the other side it might be, 

 perchance, too little husbandry and providence to take 

 nothing of them, for that which is merely lucrative to them, 

 in the mean time. Nay, I say further, this will greatly 

 conduce and be a kind of security to the end desired. For 

 I always feared, and do yet fear, that when men, by condi 

 tion merchants, though never so honest, have gotten into 

 their hands the Trades of Whites, and the dispensation of 

 Teyntour, wherein they shall reap profit for that which 

 they never sowed ; but have gotten themselves certainties, 

 in respect of the State s hopes ; they are like enough to 

 sleep upon this, as upon a pillow, and to make no haste to 



