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which was, that many of these wrongs were not 

 sustained without some aspersion of the merchants 

 own fault in ministering the occasion, which grew 

 chiefly in this manner. 



There is contained an article in the treaty be 

 tween Spain and us, that be shall not transport any 

 native commodities of the Low Countries into Spain; 

 nay, more, that we shall not transport any opificia, 

 manufactures of the same countries : so that if an 

 English cloth take but a dye in the Low Countries, 

 it may not be transported by the English. And the 

 reason is, because even those manufactures, although 

 the materials come from other places, do yield unto 

 them a profit and sustcntation, in regard their 

 people are set on work by them ; they have a gain 

 likewise in the price ; and they have a custom in 

 the transporting. All which the policy of Spain 

 is to debar them of; being no less desirous to 

 suffocate the trade of the Low Countries, than to 

 reduce their obedience. This article the English 

 merchant either doth not or will not understand: 

 but being drawn with his threefold cord of love, 

 hate, and gain, they do venture to transport the 

 Low Country commodities of these natures, and so 

 draw upon themselves these arrests and troubles. 



For the trade to the Indies, his lordship did 

 discover unto us the state of it to be thus: the 

 policy of Spain doth keep that treasury of theirs 

 under such lock and key, as both confederates, yea, 

 and subjects, are excluded of trade into those 

 countries ; insomuch as the French king, who hath 



