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they would go back to lay it upon the Whites : And there 

 fore whether your majesty will any more rest and bnild this 

 great wheel of your kingdom, upon these broken and brittle 

 pins, and try experiments further upon the health and body 

 of your state, I leave to your princely judgment. 



The other answer of repulse is a kind of opposing them 

 what they will do after the three years contracted for? Which 

 is a point hitherto not much stirred, though Sir Lionel 

 Cranfield hath ever beaten upon it in his speech with me : 

 for after the three years they are not tied, otherways than 

 as trade shall give encouragement ; of which encourage 

 ment your majesty hath a bitter taste. And if they should 

 hold on according to the third year s proportion, and not rise 

 on by further gradation, your majesty hath not your end. 

 No, I fear, and having long feared that this feeding of the 

 foreigner may be dangerous. For as we may think to hold 

 up our clothing by vent of Whites till we can dye and 

 dress ; so they (I mean the Dutch) will think to hold up 

 their manufacture of dying and dressing upon our Whites 

 till they can cloth : so as your majesty hath the greatest 

 reason in the world to make the New Company to come in 

 and strengthen that part of their contract ; and they refus 

 ing (as it is confidently believed they will) to make their de 

 fault more visible to all men. 



For the second main part of your majesty s consulta 

 tion (that is what shall be done supposing an absolute 

 breach) I have had some speech with Mr. Secretary Lake, 

 and likewise with Sir Lionel Cranfield ; and (as I conceive) 

 there may be three ways taken into consideration. The first 

 is, that the Old Company be restored, who (no doubt) are in 

 appetite, and (as I find by Sir Lionel Cranfield) not unpre 

 pared ; and that the licences, the one, that of 30,000 

 cloths, which was the old licence ; the other, that of my 

 Lord of Cumberland s, which is without stint (my Lord of 

 Cumberland receiving satisfaction), be compounded into 



