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Easterlings was not upon equal terms, which is one 

 of the points insisted upon in the present petition, 

 and prayed an alteration and reducement. The 

 king s answer was, It shall be so as occasion shall 

 require. 



In the fiftieth year of the same king, the commons 

 petitioned to the king for remedy against the sub 

 jects of Spain, as they now do. The king s answer 

 was, That he would write his letter for remedy. Here 

 is letters of request, no letters of mart : &quot; Nihil 

 potest nisi eodem modo petere.&quot; 



In the same year, the merchants of York peti 

 tioned in parliament against the Hollanders, and de 

 sired their ships might be stayed both in England 

 and at Calais. The king s answer was, Let it be 

 declared unto the king s council, and they shall have 

 such remedy as is according to reason. 



In the second year of king Richard II. the mer 

 chants of the sea-coast did complain of divers spoils 

 upon their ships and goods by the Spaniard. The 

 king s answer was, That with the advice of his 

 council he would procure remedy. 



His lordship cited two other precedents; the one, 

 in the second year of king Henry IV. of a petition 

 against the merchants of Genoa ; the other, in the 

 eleventh year of king Henry VI. of a petition against 

 the merchants of the still-yard, which I omit, because 

 they contain no variety of answer. 



His lordship farther cited two precedents con 

 cerning other points of prerogative, which are like 

 wise flowers of the crown; the one, touching the 



