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other, if your majesty dissolve them upon this breach on 

 their part, what is further to be done for the setting of the 

 trade again in joint, and for your own honour and profit? In 

 both which points I will not presume to give opinion, but 

 only to break the business for your majesty s better 

 judgment. 



For the first, I am sorry the occasion was given (by my 

 Lord Cooke s -speech at this time of the commitment of 

 some of them), that they should seek, &quot; omnem movere 

 lapidem&quot; to help themselves. Better it had been, if (as my 

 Lord Fenton said to me that morning very judiciously, and 

 with a great deal of foresight) ; that for that time, they should 

 have had a bridge made for them to be gone. But my Lord 

 Cooke floweth according to his own tides, and not according 

 to the tides of business. The thing which my Lord Cooke 

 said, was good and too little, but at this time it was too much. 

 But that is past. Howsoever, if they should go back, and 

 seek again to entertain your majesty with new orders or offers 

 (as is said to be intended) your majesty hath ready two 

 answers of repulse, if it please your majesty to use them. 



The one, that this is now the fourth time that they have 

 mainly broken with your majesty and contradicted them 

 selves. First, they undertook to dye and dress all the cloths 

 of the realm; soon after they wound themselves into the 

 Trade of Whites, and came down to the proportion con 

 tracted. Secondly, they ought to have performed that con 

 tract according to their subscription, pro ratu, without any 

 of these orders and impositions : soon after they deserted 

 their subscription,&quot; and had recourse to these devices of 

 orders. Thirdly, if by order and not by subscription, yet 

 their orders should have laid it upon the Whites, which is 

 an unlawful and prohibited trade, nevertheless, they would 

 have brought in lawful and settled trades, full manufactures, 

 merchandize of all natures, poll money or brotherhood 

 money and I cannot tell what, And now lastly, it seemeth 



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